Ken Coleman - Quotes

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“ They usually show movies on a flight like that. - Ken Coleman's signature home run call. ”
“ Fly ball to deep left...Yastrzemski is going hard...way back...way back...and he dives and makes a tremendous catch! One of the greatest catches I've ever seen by Yastrzemski in left field! - Ken Coleman on WHDH radio, calling Carl Yastrzemski's ninth-inning over-the-shoulder catch of Tom Tresh's deep fly ball to left field at Yankee Stadium, preserving a no-hit bid by rookie Red Sox pitcher Billy Rohr, making his first major league start on April 14, 1967. The no-hitter was broken up two batters later by Elston Howard. ”
“ This is truly a love story...an affair 'twixt a town and a team...a town that had waited and waited for what seemed an Impossible Dream. - Coleman, introducing a television special that aired on WHDH-TV/Channel 5 celebrating the 1967 "Impossible Dream" Red Sox. ”
“ Deep to right field...Number 44! - Coleman on WHDH-TV/Channel 5, calling Yastrzemski's 44th home run of the 1967 season at Fenway Park, in the next-to-last game of the regular season on September 30. Yaz tied Harmon Killebrew for the American League home run lead that year and won the Triple Crown, the last major leaguer to do so. ”
“ STRIKE THREE! Roger Clemens has broken the Major League record for strikeouts in one game! He has struck out 20....Mariners. - Coleman on WPLM-FM, calling Roger Clemens' record-setting 20th strikeout in one game at Fenway Park on April 29, 1986, against Phil Bradley of the Seattle Mariners. ”
“ Here's the pitch...there's a fly ball to left field...Downing is going back...back...back...it's GONE! IT IS GONE!!! Dave Henderson has homered! And the Boston Red Sox have taken the lead! - Coleman on WPLM-FM, calling Dave Henderson's dramatic 2-run home run off reliever Donnie Moore of the California Angels in the top half of the 9th inning in Game 5 of the 1986 American League Championship Series at Anaheim Stadium on October 12, 1986. Moore was one strike away from clinching the Angels' first trip to the World Series. The Angels went on to lose to the Red Sox in 7 games. ”
“ Stanley ready, he throws and the pitch is inside, it gets away from Gedman...And the tying run is home! The tying run scores! And down to second base goes Knight! 55,078 fans go wild, as the Mets, with 2 outs and the bases empty, in the last of the 10th, have tied it up! - Coleman on WPLM-FM, calling the wild pitch by Bob Stanley that scored Kevin Mitchell to tie Game 6 of the 1986 World Series on October 25, 1986. ”

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