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Article: Goose gossage: former closer recalls playoff contest between Yankees and Red Sox in 1978 to decide the A.L. East division championship.(The Game I'll Never Forget)(Interview)
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- Baseball Digest
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- May 1, 2005
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WHAT'S THE BIGGEST GAME I ever played? That's easy. It was the one-game playoff against the Red Sox at Fenway Park in 1978.
That was my first season with the Yankees, and we never expected to be in that situation. We were 14 games behind the Red Sox in August. Who could have guessed the season would end with a one-game playoff? To play 162 games and have identical records and go into Fenway with everything riding on one game almost didn't seem fair to the losing team.
Ron Guidry started for the Yankees. He was almost unhittable that year with 25 wins. Mike Torrez pitched for the Red Sox, and everyone knows the story of that game. The Yankees were losing, ...