Phil Rizzuto predicts trouble for Mike Torrez
Here is a YouTube clip for no apparent reason - upcoming 30th anniversary, I guess? - of Phil Rizzuto and Frank Messer setting up the Yankees-Red Sox playoff game in 1978.
Scooter dishes some cliches, laments Willie Randolph's unavailability for the big game . . . and calls Mike Torrez "a very excitable Latin type."
Yikes! Can you say that on TV? I guess you could in 1978.
(Torrez took the loss, allowing four earned runs, walking three and striking out four in 6 2/3 innings.)
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I found it funny how the said the Yankees weren't a team to come back often, yet they came back from a 14.5-game deficit.
I know they meant when falling behind in a game, but I just thought it was funny.
I think Phil would have referred to himself as an excitable, latin type.