With the World Series beginning Tuesday, former Atlanta Braves first baseman Sid Bream took time to write about one of his favorite playoff moments in The Players’ Tribune— The Slide from the NLCS in 1992.
In "The Run that Sank Pittsburgh", Bream wrote fans, both elated Braves fans and angry Pittsburgh Pirates fans, still come up to him almost every day wanting to talk about the slide.
And for Bream, it never gets old.
In the Players’ Tribune, Bream, who calls himself “a Pennsylvania guy” recounts his days as a Pirate and the emotional transition to Atlanta.
Bream writes Atlanta made him an offer he couldn’t refuse, so he left somberly Pittsburgh and was emotional about the move through the 1991 NLCS when he faced and beat his former team.
Bream’s focus in his story is on his final at bat in the 1992 NLCS, what was going through his head while he was standing on second base in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Braves winning run against the Pirates and when he ran in for the winning run.
“I wasn’t thinking about anything at all... I was just moving my body as fast as it could possibly go as the ball bounced past Jay Bell at short and out toward Bonds in left... But I just kept on chuggin’, you know what I mean? I was on a mission to score that run. And when it came time to slide, things got... interesting,” Bream wrote.
Bream said he honestly can’t remember if third-base coach Jimy Williams motioned to hold him at third or not.
He even asked readers if they have a wide-angle tape of Game 7 in 1992, to send it his way because even though he lived it, he wants to know the full story of that run.
To read all about The Slide, visit The Players' Tribune.
