Bucky dent home run

His was an improbable glory.

On October 2, , baseball’s fates codified heroism for a hitter with four home runs in the season. He wore Yankee pinstripes, looked like a GQ model, and, quietly, on and off the field, projected likability balancing the controversy surrounding the Yankees of the late s.

Bucky Dent remains known to Boston Red Sox fans as Bucky F****** Dent.

Dent’s name — without the emphatic vulgarity — sounds like it’s out of a Frank Merriwell novel.

The moniker comes from New England’s void of hope carved when Dent went yard on a Mike Torrez fastball in a one-game playoff to seal the American League East championship.

“Bucky effing Dent! Maybe the only time in Bucky’s career that he heard ‘It’s a long fly ball deep deep to left!’ He never hit a ball deep to left!” declared Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk at the time.

“I tell you what.

It was a great sound, too,” Dent responded.1

The home run capped an epic Red Sox collapse from a 14½ game lead in the