Stan Musial Highlights

there's no score as curveballing camille pasqual is greeted with a single off pinch hitter stan musial's bat to ignite a spark in the national eight six the cardinals tied the score in the last half of the sixth with a teammate on second and two out muzio doubled off the right field wall scoring shane east so and for 22 seasons stan the man played it as well as anyone he was known for his ever-present smile and for one of the sweetest swings in the game the rookies who came to spring training they would ask me i was always smiling all the time and enjoying myself nice to tell these rookies i said you know it's a great feeling when you know you're going down the left field line the right field line hit one in the left center one in right center home run and then hit one up the middle i'd love to see how they scouted him some kind of a football defense to stop him he was able to take like a stutter step when the pitch was at off speed slugging card outfielder is the next hitter here's the pitch and wham there she goes over the roof of the right field pavilion it's a home run hop scores ahead of musial and the cardinals jump out in front two to nothing museum forced moore door to pesky and braking scored run number three for the cardinal third on the play stand mutual of the cardinals at bat in comes the pitch stand swings it's a long drive deep into right center field going going it is gone up in there for a home run ashburn comes home ahead of mutual and the national league is off to a two to nothing lead as much crosses home plate there was still hope when stan musia lined a triple to the far right center field corner of the park ed lopet of the yanks runs into stan the man and trouble in the forest museus blast is a souvenir for a fan a home run into the right field stands the long ball was supposed to be the american league stock in trade but the gnats steal the thunder in today's dream game musia followed with a double to right center scoring shane beast and more at this point manager cronin decided stan set a record last year when he clouded his fifth all-star home run stan is the only player who survived the big cincinnati landslide a real tribute to his nationwide popularity [Applause] in the field he is fleet-footed and eagle-eyed he gives every play all he's got circus catches our routine to stand musial doubles off the right field screen and the national league is threatening for the first time by 1943 mutual led the national league in six offensive categories and won his first mvp award 815 hits on the road and was the first player to appear in more than one thousand games at two different positions she's tied up to the two there goes the fly ball deep to left field it is high off that screen out there there's the play of second and musial is out that is the time when you take a picture of a batsman to get his form and this double deck position that stanley gets his frame into before the ball is pitched doesn't mean a thing if you want to see a proper stride short stride a level sweep that full back a coin wouldn't drop off the end of the bat before it starts forward there are no two moves looking for the dan musial is first up for the nationals in their half of the 12th here comes sullivan's first pitch and there it goes a home run over the right field screen it's the fourth all-star homer in muzio's career and by far the most important the national league wins an uphill battle six to five the national league now has won five of the last six of these mid-summer spectacles musial's teammates gather at the plate to greet the hero the st louis cardinals car is jubilant over the victory and 45 314 spectators have seen a never to be forgotten long afternoon of baseball just a small portion of the many millions of fans who watch our national game of baseball every year here's the pitch and the left field hit number 3000 score museum around first on his way to second with a double holy cow well of course this was a big one of course i i just want to keep playing now and uh i don't have too many other goals uh although i would like to finish my national career as uh as one player who had more hits than anybody else than national league so it's going to take two balls and a strike bullies are losing one to nothing in the fourth of los angeles the pitch to museum a hot shot on the ground in the right side of the right hand side around third here's the no floor the cardinals lead one to nothing listen to the crowd listen to the crowd let's see now manager johnny keane is talking to gary call stan is at first base he might be waiting for this applause on the hip to die down they'll tear the joint apart when he traps off the field he would have gone out the way he came in with a base hit his first you

Channel: Dominick Claflin

Views: 18,160

Keywords: Baseball, MLB, Major League Baseball, Stan Musial, St. Louis Cardinals, 1942 World Series, 1943 World Series, 1944 World Series, 1946 World Series, Hits, 3000 hits, Stan the Man, The man, Greatest hitter ever, Most underrated hitter of all time

Id: v_VHGv3OvgQ

Length: 10min 7sec (607 seconds)

Published: Sat May 15 2021