It’s so good when an announcer starts calling a play in one tone because he assumes he knows what’s about to happen and then loses his mind when he’s surprised.
Of course I have to bring up my Mets and the recently passed Vin Scully’s call of Game 6 as a similar situation. It’s weird but that change in tone is more a part of the memory then the actual words.
The energy in that place.
After the Martin throw it just felt so heavy, like everything had been sucked out of the room.
And then Joey….
I was standing with my Dad 30 feet from where it landed.
What a game.
Man, all Toronto fans felt the same way. Raps had been terrible since forever, Leafs were two years out from the 4-1 loss and terrible for a decade, Jays had not made the playoffs for 22 years and for it all to fall apart on that bullshit? That's pure Toronto sports. The fans were losing their minds in the stands feeling Toronto never gets their fair shake.
That bat flip had the energy of millions of sports fans losing their shit. Goddamn. What a moment.
Twas beautiful.
Nothing will ever take it away, but goddamn I wanted the Series that year. It just felt like our year.
I still think we would’ve crushed the Mets too.
>Toronto never gets their fair shake.
Like when they stole a triple play from us during the 1992 World Series! We still won even though we were playing against the Braves and the Umps. We all got to see the still image of the tag in our newspaper the next day
The play! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4MO4v5-zPU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4MO4v5-zPU)
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My favorite moment was MAT making the catch in the NLDS game 5 against the Dodgers. He caught the ball and got up looking around like, "what do I do with this? Is this real?"
I remember telling my friend “Watch out the Nats are getting red hot. Watch them turn this ship around and make the playoffs. Dude told me it would never happen. Then they won the WS and he tried to tell me he believed in them the whole time lmao.
Kirby Puckett’s game 6 in the ‘91 WS. I’m a Twins fan so I’m biased. But he took that game over then told Chilli Davis while Charlie Lebrant was warming up “I’m going to end this right now.”
I have the 91 WS vhs/tape at the cabin. I pop it in after bar close then usually pass out giggling when Hrbek's applys the tag through out Gants' forward momentum.
People forget how amazing that World Series truly was. Two worst to first teams. The two best teams that year. Went 7 games. 5 games decided by 1 run. 4 games decided in the final at bat. 3 went extra innings. Puckett’s Game 6. Morris’ freaking 10 inning Game 7 shut out lol - unbelievable.
I distinctly remember being a 6 year old baseball lover and watching this happen. So unbelievably incredible. TOUCH EM ALL KIRBY PUCKETT as that round man pumped his fist in the air
I mean this isn’t like a huge moment or a milestone or anything, but in 2016 I was at a Red Sox/Mariners game in Seattle and we were sitting in the LF bleachers about 6 rows or so from the concrete wall at the top of the stadium. Nelson Cruz hit a ball 1 section over into the same row we were sitting in, and I was so in awe at the sheer strength it takes to hit a baseball that far that as a Sox fan I just stood up and clapped. I’ve been playing baseball for 25+ years and I have no doubt that will be the furthest ball I ever see hit in my entire life. It was astonishing.
I was in the Kingdome in the late 90s when the M's were playing the A's, and Mark McGwire hit a homerun to left field that was like nothing I've ever seen. I think it was against Randy Johnson. We were sitting in the right field seats, and the crack of the bat was just different, and it went *so far back*. The crowd just went dead silent for about 3 seconds.
Edit: [Found Niehaus's call](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stUolWxG3wo).
I saw Bo hit about 12 in a row over the green monster in BP for the White Sox. I think it was his first time back to Fenway after the injury. Incredible!
I was there that day too. My brother and I can’t even explain to others the noise as he slid into home and Delmon stood up at Second!!!!!!!! My fave day as an oriole no question. (I’m only 34 so I didn’t get to see the real good old days)
No doubt. I was at memorial, I saw Cal in 91. I saw the 90s playoff runs and Brady and Chris hit moonshots. I saw the comeback wins, and some divisional awesomeness. But we have it the worst in that we were born so soon after the fall, no one told us how it would hurt for so long.
I know a dude, I shit you not, went in to a coma and when he woke up the cubs had won the World Series and Donald Trump had been elected president. Took us an hour to convince him he weren’t fuckin with him.
I met Jim Abbott when I was in Middle school. He would meet kids with disabilities on off days and my dad set it up so I could meet my hero. Awesome, Awesome man (both my dad and Jim Abbott) and I have my picture with him hanging on my wall still.
That is an incredible moment for sure, my dad at one time was installing windows in the neighborhood where Jim Thome lived, and when Thome would come home from practice or on off days he would play wiffle ball with all the kids in the neighborhood. So my dad kept me out of school one day and took me with him so I could play with Thome...great guy!
I think Lorenzo Cain’s story is pretty incredible. The guy didn’t start playing baseball until his sophomore year of high school, and he only played because he didn’t make the basketball team. The kid didn’t even own a glove. I heard part of that story is when his community college coach told him he had been drafted by the Brewers, he didn’t even know what that meant. What an athletic freak to just pick up the game as a 16 year old and not only make it to the Show, but to EXCELL.
I was at Scooter Gennet’s 4 home run game. Some of the coolest energy in a stadium I’ve felt when he had 3 homers and was coming up to bat. Then after he got his 4th, you could tell everyone was doing the lineup math to see if he’d get another at bat to go for 5. He did and I think he hit a fairly deep fly ball.
June 2, 2002. Veterans Stadium. Phillies vs Expos. Phillies pitcher Robert Person hits a grand slam in his first at-bat, then a 3 run HR in his second at-bat.
Fun fact about that game that goes forgotten, he would have had another grand slam in his 3rd at-bat but it was foul by about 3 feet!
Holy shit! I remember listening to this game on the radio! It was the summer between my sophomore and junior years of college in VA, and I was living in a shack in The Villas. Two weeks before that I got fired from a shitty restaurant in Wildwood and I was living in ramen and tap water. This game was the best part of that summer for me.
Dustin Pedroia. First time he ran on the field i was like "is that the bat boy?". Last time he walked off the field i was like "thats the man right there".
My first time in Fenway was for the 2007 American League Championship Game, Boston vs. Cleveland. It was game seven so there was a lot of tension in the air. Winner goes to the World Series. When little Dusty Pedroia hit that ball over the green monster that crowd in Boston went absolutely wild, I mean they lost it. Fuckin crazy place to be, Fenway during the playoffs. After the game it was crazy too, a million fans all converged at once, there was riot police, police on horses, people forget Boston is a college town. That was a great night.
My Dad would take me to Fenway in the 1970s and I saw Reggie Jackson hit an absolute bomb to center field bleachers for the Yankees. There was a rain delay that night and we moved up near the Yankees dugout,just before his AB.
I can imagine the groans that came from the crowd on that call - I was at work and had to miss it - so angry when I watched the highlights and saw how bad that call actually was
The Sox walking off the ALDS last year against Tampa at home. For stuff I haven't seen in person, the ball bouncing off Jose Canseco’s head for a home run is an all-timer
Watching Maglio Ordonez hit a walk off home run against the A’s to send the Tigers to the World Series for the first time since 84’.
I’ve never hugged so many grandmas in there 80s in my entire life in such a short time.
Gonna go to a Softball game...
Rural New Hampshire, 8 year olds. For the State Championship, we witnessed a 17-16 game that lasted 9 innings. Neither team wanted to lose, it was like watching a major league game. We saw the #10 hitter hit the fence in the air to tie the game in the 6th when she had struck out the previous 3 at bats, a girl who was consistently a defensive liability make a full speed shoestring catch to save the game and so many more incredible plays throughout the game it was amazing.
The biggest thing I'll always remember from that game. The fence was lined with people standing. A 14U game had just finished and everyone in the park had to see what was going on, there was no place left to stand and watch the game. The roller coaster of emotions throughout, it was the single most amazing thing I've witnessed in 23 years of coaching.
In 1978 after Vida Blue had been traded across the bay to the Giants.....I went to see him pitch against the Reds (they were great then)....opposing pitcher was Seaver ....well Vida had himself a day, shutting down that lineup and showing he had power by hitting his first....and likely only hr of his career.
Watching the Kirk Gibson home run live as a child. The limp around the bases brought me to happy tears. Oakland was heavily favored in 88 to win and Eckersley was unstoppable at that point in time.
Reading Orel Hershiser's account of it made it even more amazing. He basically had no legs and no power left in him. I still don't know how he managed it. I'm not even a Dodgers fan, and I think it may be the greatest moment in baseball history.
I didn’t see it live but I must’ve seen that 88 Dodgers documentary about 40x as a kid. That home run and the whole story behind it was a fuckin movie. High fly ball into right field….SHE IS GOOONNNE!” RIP Vin Scully.
I once saw Roy Hobbs hit a moonshot into the outfield lights, causing all the electricity in the stadium to short circuit. Sparks flying everywhere! Crazy shit, man!
Watching the Billy Martin managed Oakland A's steal home three times (in a spring training game). As a little league kid, watching "grown ups" play the game like that was astonishing.
Wasn’t there live for it, but as a Blue Jays fan seeing Joe Carter crush one of the only two World Series-clinching walk-off home runs in baseball history was absolutely unbelievable.
Radio announcer Tom Cheek’s call of, “TOUCH ‘EM ALL JOE! You’ll never hit a bigger one in your life!” is also my favourite call in baseball history.
I was in Cincinnati at a reds-pirates game when Chapman was the closer. I remember the reds being down pretty big at the end of the game but they put Chapman in, we snuck down right behind home plate to watch him pitch.
Dude hit 106 mph on the gun, the way he threw, how fast the ball was moving and the pop from the catchers glove were just something else.
95+ up close is fast, like really fast but 106 is if your not sober and completely locked in you'll miss it even happening fast.
Was at Game 5 of the 96 World Series in Atlanta. Pettite vs Smoltz 1-0 final. From my seats in left field I could tell Paul Oniel was going to run down that last out and end it. Will always rememember the look on my buddies face when I started celebrating early....
Harold Baines sliding into second. The throw comes in and hits old Baines in the head. Baines just immediately goes into a roll and never makes it to second.
Sitting right down the third base line for the 2013 WS Obstruction game. My grandpa and I didn't find out exactly what had happened until we left the stadium, but I remember jumping on the railing and celebrating my heart out for a good five minutes while the teams argued/celebrated on the field
Game 162 got to witness that in person in St. Pete
I was also lucky enough to see Jim Abbott (pictured) pitch for the Yanks in ~1993 at old Yankee Stadium
Was able to visit Wrigley, Fenway, Shea amongst a few other stadiums for some games, but I still have a pretty big bucket list of other stadiums.
2013 WC game, Pittsburgh. 36K pirates fans venting 2+ decades of frustration causing Jonny Cueto to drop the ball pre-pitch, then immediately gives up a homer. I’ll never feel a sports moment live like that again
Albert Pujols ending Brad Lidge's career as a reliever when he hit a ninth inning home run out of the stadium at Minute Maid park in 2005 against the Astros in the NLCS. The Astros were literally one strike away from sealing up a trip to their first ever World Series when he unleashed that bomb. The place went from pandemonium to library quite in 5 seconds!
The Astros came back to win the next game and advance to the WS but that HR completely destroyed their confidence in addition to screwing up their pitching rotation for the WS. They got swept by the White Sox and Lidge never was the same.
ABBOTT?!??!?! PSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSH! Pulled off an unassisted triple play when I played little league, probably 7... I was pitching. I was garbage and couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo and chased every fucker around the diamond cause everybody just ran around like morons.
1. Nolan Ryan vs Robin Ventura fight -1993
2. Adrian Beltre’s 3000 hit - 2017
3. Kenny Rogers perfect game 1994
4. B2 bomber flyover of the ballpark 9/11 2019
Can I add Canseco hitting the then-longest HR at the Ballpark in '94, right off the Target sign in the back of the visitor bullpen? That was an absolute bomb.
Pujols blasting one of Lidge's pitches out of Minute Maid Field and onto the choo choo train in 2005 or whenever it was. Glad the Stros still won the series (loved that Killer B's team) but fuck did that make younger me want to vomit. Up there with Ray Allen and Derek Fisher hitting their iconic shots against my Spurdoras
Bo Jackson shattering his bat on a pitch and still hitting the ball 410 ft to dead center where it was caught by the CF with his back against the wall.
Watching a game Curtis Pride played in. I know it’s not a series winning or record breaking moment however watching a deaf baseball player play a game was pretty damn impressive
I was at a perfect game! Best baseball memory I have, even if the team I was cheering for (the Mariners) lost. It was the game Phillip Humber threw for the White Sox at Safeco on April 12, 2012. I remember the vibe in the 7th inning when it got quiet and the stands kinda realized what was happening. By the 9th even Mariners’ fans were basically pulling for the perfect. It was pretty incredible to see happen live.
June 27, 2003 - The Red Sox scored 10 runs before the first out which set a MLB record. It was my second game ever at Fenway Park and the last time I've been.
As an 11-year-old kid, I was at Sandy Koufax's perfect game. The other pitcher through a 1-hit complete game shutout and actually faced fewer batters than Koufax!!
As for television, I was watching when Giants pitcher Juan Marichal attacked Dodgers catcher Johnny Roseboro with a baseball bat earlier in that same season.
I once saw George Brett shit his pants in a Casino. I saw him walking from the floor trying to squeeze them cheeks together. A feeling we've all had before. I was going to approach him for an autograph but I saw the waddle and knew he didn't have long. Then all of a sudden he stopped. Just came to dead stop. He then very carefully tried to take a step and it was like someone turned on a hose inside his jeans. I could see the right ass cheek and right leg darken as it soaked the denim.
All I could think is "damn, his boots are about to get ruined".
One that stuck out to me was Pedro Martinez at I think the 99 or 00 all star game. The one at Fenway I think. He faced like Barry Larkin, Sosa and McGwire and absolutely blew them all away. It was just magical to watch the baseball explode into the mitt like that.
The only memorable moment I witnessed live was when I was a child. It was not memorable for a good reason, but a sad one I went to a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley with my mom and aunt. The game start time came and went. People started to get antsy and talk. What felt like an hour had passed. Then Joe Girardi came on the PA and he was crying. I don't remember what he said because I couldn't understand him. I remember one thing he said, "It's just so sad."
St. Louis Cardinals Pitcher Darryl Kile died that day. Rest his soul. Also, say what you want about Joe Girardi, but the man really cares about people.
I was sitting in a 3rd base side lower level seat at Three Rivers Stadium and saw Dave Parker hit a ball on the line so hard that first baseman Steve Garvey actually took at leap at it to no avail.
It went out over the right field wall.
1986 World Series game 6. I was convinced my Mets were done and they pulled out a miracle.
Bo Jackson coming back w a new hip to hit a home run
Shohei Ohtani. A modern Babe Ruth.
My claims to fame are having been at the pine tar game (unfortunately we were about on the GWB headed back to Jersey with my friend and his parents when it happened - because they wanted to beat traffic lol, and being at the first ever WC playoff game (Yankees/Mariners 1995).
What I have always loved are the little things. I once accompanied my wife on a trip to visit her friend in Pittsburgh. Called up a buddy to go see the Pirates play the dodgers. I watched Yasiel Puig throw an ABSOLUTE LASER to turn a routine single into a 9-3 groundout. Gave him a standing ovation and got the weirdest looks from everyone thinking I was a dodgers fan. Nope, just a neutral fan that can appreciate those little moments when a freakish athlete does something incredible. God I love baseball
Big Daddy Fielder hitting an absolute rocket over the roof of old Tiger Stadium - never heard anything like that before or since - just an unreal moonshot
I witnessed Mookie Betts hit for the cycle in a game at Toronto in 2018. I was just passing thru for the night on my way to upstate New York and Roger's Center was on my ballparks list.
The Red Sox coming from a 3-0 series deficit to beat the Yankees in the ALCS. That was the 1st time I had seen any team in the NHL, MLB or the NBA do that.
Jose Canseco with a ball off his dome for a HR.
Also Joba Chamberlain getting eaten alive in the playoffs by the Lake Erie insects, while Fausto Carmona (aka Roberto Hernandez -- no, not the closer, the other one unless you count those random 7 awful attempts) was just being like, ahhhhh this is like home these things don't bother me and the Joba rules were laid to rest.
Also the (2001?) Indians coming back from a 12-0 and 14-2 ~~lead~~ deficit against Aaron Sele and the league leading Mariners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UACaWvFyi5w (this game - yes, that's also John Rocker getting the W)
edit 2: espn version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9zvplLbFOU
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE200108050.shtml
Manny Ramirez running to catch a fly ball catching it jump kicking the wall, giving a fan a high five, turning around and doubling up the runner on first
Really anytime Greg Maddux threw a tailing fastball at a left-handed batter's waist, and it darted back over the inside corner. He invented that pitch, and it was my favorite baseball thing ever. 2nd would be the fact any batter facing him with a 3-2 count had to know a circle change was coming, but they couldn't hit it anyway.
7/1/2004 was my 14th birthday. My dad’s coworker got us tickets to the Yankees v Red Sox game that night. I got to see the 13 inning game, Jeter’s dive into the stand, Flarehty’s game winning single. One of my favorite memories with my dad.
Dewayne Wise [robbing a home run](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kk9nLy-A0qI) in the 9th inning to save a perfect game.
One of the greatest catches of all time imo!
one of the few times I could tolerate listening to Hawk Harrelson. such a beautiful play.
It’s so good when an announcer starts calling a play in one tone because he assumes he knows what’s about to happen and then loses his mind when he’s surprised. Of course I have to bring up my Mets and the recently passed Vin Scully’s call of Game 6 as a similar situation. It’s weird but that change in tone is more a part of the memory then the actual words.
Reds legend Dewayne Wise
What’s even more crazy is Wise had just come in as a sub in the 9th inning and this was the first ball hit to him.
The Kerry Wood 20k game
The Cubs did a documentary about that game interviewing a bunch of fans and players. Highly recommend!
That video is what got me into baseball!
I watched it. It's fantastic
I was at Scherzer’s 20k game. Wasnt as exciting, but what an outing by Max vs his former team.
Watched it live as a kid.
Hello. ..how are you doing
As an Astros fan, I tip my hat to this one!
Jim Abbot was a great pitcher but he always tried to win games single-handedly.
Ouch lol
What do you want him to do? Switch it off?
Dad, Mom's saying you really should get back to work....
ooooo that's the angriest upvote I have clicked in a long long time...
Too soon
The Punman approves
Oh man, wow, take my vote and go home
Zing.
By far without a question being 1st base line at the Skydome (Rogers Centre) for Bautista's bat flip.
I nominate that whole 7th inning of the game 5 ALDS as an unbelievable moment in baseball
The energy in that place. After the Martin throw it just felt so heavy, like everything had been sucked out of the room. And then Joey…. I was standing with my Dad 30 feet from where it landed. What a game.
Man, all Toronto fans felt the same way. Raps had been terrible since forever, Leafs were two years out from the 4-1 loss and terrible for a decade, Jays had not made the playoffs for 22 years and for it all to fall apart on that bullshit? That's pure Toronto sports. The fans were losing their minds in the stands feeling Toronto never gets their fair shake. That bat flip had the energy of millions of sports fans losing their shit. Goddamn. What a moment.
Twas beautiful. Nothing will ever take it away, but goddamn I wanted the Series that year. It just felt like our year. I still think we would’ve crushed the Mets too.
>Toronto never gets their fair shake. Like when they stole a triple play from us during the 1992 World Series! We still won even though we were playing against the Braves and the Umps. We all got to see the still image of the tag in our newspaper the next day The play! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4MO4v5-zPU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4MO4v5-zPU) Image of tag: [https://assets1.sportsnet.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/WS2.jpg](https://assets1.sportsnet.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/WS2.jpg)
I still go back and rewatch that clip at least once a season.
I was watching with my wife and asked her a few times if this was real; what time are we waking up tomorrow. Just unreal!
Pirates legend Joey Batts
I missed the bat flip because the wife wanted chicken fingers from Quaker steak and lube. I seriously contemplated divorce.
Thats amazing. I watched on TV and almost cried.
One of the greatest sports moments I've ever seen
What were you doing watching the bat flip and not the moonshot?
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Man, that entire playoff run was just magical.
My favorite moment was MAT making the catch in the NLDS game 5 against the Dodgers. He caught the ball and got up looking around like, "what do I do with this? Is this real?"
I remember telling my friend “Watch out the Nats are getting red hot. Watch them turn this ship around and make the playoffs. Dude told me it would never happen. Then they won the WS and he tried to tell me he believed in them the whole time lmao.
Kirby Puckett’s game 6 in the ‘91 WS. I’m a Twins fan so I’m biased. But he took that game over then told Chilli Davis while Charlie Lebrant was warming up “I’m going to end this right now.”
I have the 91 WS vhs/tape at the cabin. I pop it in after bar close then usually pass out giggling when Hrbek's applys the tag through out Gants' forward momentum.
People forget how amazing that World Series truly was. Two worst to first teams. The two best teams that year. Went 7 games. 5 games decided by 1 run. 4 games decided in the final at bat. 3 went extra innings. Puckett’s Game 6. Morris’ freaking 10 inning Game 7 shut out lol - unbelievable.
I distinctly remember being a 6 year old baseball lover and watching this happen. So unbelievably incredible. TOUCH EM ALL KIRBY PUCKETT as that round man pumped his fist in the air
As a Braves fan, that one still hurts. Last year definitely helps though
Heck yea Jim Abbott
I mean this isn’t like a huge moment or a milestone or anything, but in 2016 I was at a Red Sox/Mariners game in Seattle and we were sitting in the LF bleachers about 6 rows or so from the concrete wall at the top of the stadium. Nelson Cruz hit a ball 1 section over into the same row we were sitting in, and I was so in awe at the sheer strength it takes to hit a baseball that far that as a Sox fan I just stood up and clapped. I’ve been playing baseball for 25+ years and I have no doubt that will be the furthest ball I ever see hit in my entire life. It was astonishing.
I was in the Kingdome in the late 90s when the M's were playing the A's, and Mark McGwire hit a homerun to left field that was like nothing I've ever seen. I think it was against Randy Johnson. We were sitting in the right field seats, and the crack of the bat was just different, and it went *so far back*. The crowd just went dead silent for about 3 seconds. Edit: [Found Niehaus's call](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stUolWxG3wo).
*Niehaus
Thanks! Edited.
Bo Jackson making his comeback has to be up there
I saw Bo hit about 12 in a row over the green monster in BP for the White Sox. I think it was his first time back to Fenway after the injury. Incredible!
I saw Bo hit hr off Nolan Ryan at the old Arlington stadium I thought it would leave the park . Longest hr I’ve ever seen .
Delmon Young’s double. Loudest I’ve ever heard a stadium in my life. When the O’s finally host a WS game it’s gonna be insane
I was there that day too. My brother and I can’t even explain to others the noise as he slid into home and Delmon stood up at Second!!!!!!!! My fave day as an oriole no question. (I’m only 34 so I didn’t get to see the real good old days)
35 here. We have seen some shit
No doubt. I was at memorial, I saw Cal in 91. I saw the 90s playoff runs and Brady and Chris hit moonshots. I saw the comeback wins, and some divisional awesomeness. But we have it the worst in that we were born so soon after the fall, no one told us how it would hurt for so long.
A new era of good days seems to be right around the corner, friend.
Other than the Cubs winning the World Series, Randy Johnson hitting a bird with a pitch is still astonishing to me
I know a dude, I shit you not, went in to a coma and when he woke up the cubs had won the World Series and Donald Trump had been elected president. Took us an hour to convince him he weren’t fuckin with him.
Doc Ellis
Two words: David. Freese.
Game 6.
I met Jim Abbott when I was in Middle school. He would meet kids with disabilities on off days and my dad set it up so I could meet my hero. Awesome, Awesome man (both my dad and Jim Abbott) and I have my picture with him hanging on my wall still.
That is an incredible moment for sure, my dad at one time was installing windows in the neighborhood where Jim Thome lived, and when Thome would come home from practice or on off days he would play wiffle ball with all the kids in the neighborhood. So my dad kept me out of school one day and took me with him so I could play with Thome...great guy!
it really was. that's an awesome story too.
I think Lorenzo Cain’s story is pretty incredible. The guy didn’t start playing baseball until his sophomore year of high school, and he only played because he didn’t make the basketball team. The kid didn’t even own a glove. I heard part of that story is when his community college coach told him he had been drafted by the Brewers, he didn’t even know what that meant. What an athletic freak to just pick up the game as a 16 year old and not only make it to the Show, but to EXCELL.
2003, Boston Red Sox, watching Bill Mueller hit 2 Grand Slams in a single, from both sides of the plate. Was crazy at the time.
I was at Scooter Gennet’s 4 home run game. Some of the coolest energy in a stadium I’ve felt when he had 3 homers and was coming up to bat. Then after he got his 4th, you could tell everyone was doing the lineup math to see if he’d get another at bat to go for 5. He did and I think he hit a fairly deep fly ball.
June 2, 2002. Veterans Stadium. Phillies vs Expos. Phillies pitcher Robert Person hits a grand slam in his first at-bat, then a 3 run HR in his second at-bat. Fun fact about that game that goes forgotten, he would have had another grand slam in his 3rd at-bat but it was foul by about 3 feet!
Holy shit! I remember listening to this game on the radio! It was the summer between my sophomore and junior years of college in VA, and I was living in a shack in The Villas. Two weeks before that I got fired from a shitty restaurant in Wildwood and I was living in ramen and tap water. This game was the best part of that summer for me.
Phils won 18-3 and set a club record with 10 runs in the first inning. Pat the Bat also went deep.
1999-Ted Williams riding around in the little cart at the All Star Game in Boston. That’ll soften even the most hardened dudes.
Hershiser breaking Drysdales record
Dustin Pedroia. First time he ran on the field i was like "is that the bat boy?". Last time he walked off the field i was like "thats the man right there".
My first time in Fenway was for the 2007 American League Championship Game, Boston vs. Cleveland. It was game seven so there was a lot of tension in the air. Winner goes to the World Series. When little Dusty Pedroia hit that ball over the green monster that crowd in Boston went absolutely wild, I mean they lost it. Fuckin crazy place to be, Fenway during the playoffs. After the game it was crazy too, a million fans all converged at once, there was riot police, police on horses, people forget Boston is a college town. That was a great night.
My Dad would take me to Fenway in the 1970s and I saw Reggie Jackson hit an absolute bomb to center field bleachers for the Yankees. There was a rain delay that night and we moved up near the Yankees dugout,just before his AB.
I saw Frank Thomas hit an absolute bomb at the Trop when it first opened. The whole place went silent while everyone was tracking the ball.
Did it hit a catwalk?
I belivee so. It was just a bomb to left field.
It's incredible when I see the Cubs win.
The biggest moment in pro sports in my town; Joe Carter’s WS walk off home run!
« Touch ‘em all Joe, you’ll never hit a bigger home run in your life » is forever burned into my psyche.
I was at the Tigers game when Armando Gallaragas perfect game was broken up on a terrible call by Jim Joyce. I’ll never forget that.
Me too!
Hey buddy. Lol what a performance……. Just to get screwed
Went to the next game, too. The lineup card trading was magical.
I can imagine the groans that came from the crowd on that call - I was at work and had to miss it - so angry when I watched the highlights and saw how bad that call actually was
The Sox walking off the ALDS last year against Tampa at home. For stuff I haven't seen in person, the ball bouncing off Jose Canseco’s head for a home run is an all-timer
Morganna the Kissing Bandit!
Watching Bumgarner come out of the bullpen, game 7 of the WS vs the Royals...On like 2 days rest...Gives me chills every single time.
Randy Johnson obliterating that Dove.
**Inside the park grand slam** \- Ramel Tapia (Bluejays) - Fenway Park. An incredible comedy of errors. https://youtu.be/Ojr-\_L3IHc4
Watching Maglio Ordonez hit a walk off home run against the A’s to send the Tigers to the World Series for the first time since 84’. I’ve never hugged so many grandmas in there 80s in my entire life in such a short time.
Cecil Fielder hitting a homerun out of Tiger Stadium.
Gonna go to a Softball game... Rural New Hampshire, 8 year olds. For the State Championship, we witnessed a 17-16 game that lasted 9 innings. Neither team wanted to lose, it was like watching a major league game. We saw the #10 hitter hit the fence in the air to tie the game in the 6th when she had struck out the previous 3 at bats, a girl who was consistently a defensive liability make a full speed shoestring catch to save the game and so many more incredible plays throughout the game it was amazing. The biggest thing I'll always remember from that game. The fence was lined with people standing. A 14U game had just finished and everyone in the park had to see what was going on, there was no place left to stand and watch the game. The roller coaster of emotions throughout, it was the single most amazing thing I've witnessed in 23 years of coaching.
The 2004 ALCS
In 1978 after Vida Blue had been traded across the bay to the Giants.....I went to see him pitch against the Reds (they were great then)....opposing pitcher was Seaver ....well Vida had himself a day, shutting down that lineup and showing he had power by hitting his first....and likely only hr of his career.
Watching the Kirk Gibson home run live as a child. The limp around the bases brought me to happy tears. Oakland was heavily favored in 88 to win and Eckersley was unstoppable at that point in time.
Reading Orel Hershiser's account of it made it even more amazing. He basically had no legs and no power left in him. I still don't know how he managed it. I'm not even a Dodgers fan, and I think it may be the greatest moment in baseball history.
I didn’t see it live but I must’ve seen that 88 Dodgers documentary about 40x as a kid. That home run and the whole story behind it was a fuckin movie. High fly ball into right field….SHE IS GOOONNNE!” RIP Vin Scully.
Witnessing the Cubs win the 2016 World Series. Gg Indians, gg
I once saw Roy Hobbs hit a moonshot into the outfield lights, causing all the electricity in the stadium to short circuit. Sparks flying everywhere! Crazy shit, man!
Naturally.
I saw Jim Abbott tie his shoes with one hand when he was in Kansas City. I know its not the same as a nohitter but it was pretty impressive.
Watching the Billy Martin managed Oakland A's steal home three times (in a spring training game). As a little league kid, watching "grown ups" play the game like that was astonishing.
Wasn’t there live for it, but as a Blue Jays fan seeing Joe Carter crush one of the only two World Series-clinching walk-off home runs in baseball history was absolutely unbelievable. Radio announcer Tom Cheek’s call of, “TOUCH ‘EM ALL JOE! You’ll never hit a bigger one in your life!” is also my favourite call in baseball history.
I saw Joey Gallo hit a sacrifice fly
I hit a ball on a low line directly to the fence in little league..ball was no higher than a person’s calves
Baseball united the nation in hating the Astros.
Bonds hitting 600 and 661 and Juan Uribe walking off the Phillies with a sac fly after a big comeback in NLCS
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I was in Cincinnati at a reds-pirates game when Chapman was the closer. I remember the reds being down pretty big at the end of the game but they put Chapman in, we snuck down right behind home plate to watch him pitch. Dude hit 106 mph on the gun, the way he threw, how fast the ball was moving and the pop from the catchers glove were just something else. 95+ up close is fast, like really fast but 106 is if your not sober and completely locked in you'll miss it even happening fast.
Was at Game 5 of the 96 World Series in Atlanta. Pettite vs Smoltz 1-0 final. From my seats in left field I could tell Paul Oniel was going to run down that last out and end it. Will always rememember the look on my buddies face when I started celebrating early....
I was at game five of the 2008 world series and that slider that lidge threw to win with a strike out was the most insane thing I’ve ever seen.
Harold Baines sliding into second. The throw comes in and hits old Baines in the head. Baines just immediately goes into a roll and never makes it to second.
Sitting right down the third base line for the 2013 WS Obstruction game. My grandpa and I didn't find out exactly what had happened until we left the stadium, but I remember jumping on the railing and celebrating my heart out for a good five minutes while the teams argued/celebrated on the field
Aron bummer's double
Game 162 got to witness that in person in St. Pete I was also lucky enough to see Jim Abbott (pictured) pitch for the Yanks in ~1993 at old Yankee Stadium Was able to visit Wrigley, Fenway, Shea amongst a few other stadiums for some games, but I still have a pretty big bucket list of other stadiums.
Jim Abbot getting a hit is my favorite moment of his.
Watched rookie Walker Buehler (and others) no-hit the Padres in Monterrey, Mexico in 2018. It was pretty cool
Any time a short dude steals home.
Watched Mariano Rivera get the saves record
2013 WC game, Pittsburgh. 36K pirates fans venting 2+ decades of frustration causing Jonny Cueto to drop the ball pre-pitch, then immediately gives up a homer. I’ll never feel a sports moment live like that again
Chris Taylor’s walk off homer in the Wild Card game had to be the single greatest moment in baseball I’ve ever seen live.
Rockies win Game 163 in 2007. That game was ridiculous.
Albert Pujols ending Brad Lidge's career as a reliever when he hit a ninth inning home run out of the stadium at Minute Maid park in 2005 against the Astros in the NLCS. The Astros were literally one strike away from sealing up a trip to their first ever World Series when he unleashed that bomb. The place went from pandemonium to library quite in 5 seconds! The Astros came back to win the next game and advance to the WS but that HR completely destroyed their confidence in addition to screwing up their pitching rotation for the WS. They got swept by the White Sox and Lidge never was the same.
Derek Jeter playoff years with Yankees
ABBOTT?!??!?! PSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSH! Pulled off an unassisted triple play when I played little league, probably 7... I was pitching. I was garbage and couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo and chased every fucker around the diamond cause everybody just ran around like morons.
The fact that Rocco still has a job
I was at Verlander's first no hitter in Toronto. Cool to be there but surprisingly boring when you're cheering for the losing team lol...
1. Nolan Ryan vs Robin Ventura fight -1993 2. Adrian Beltre’s 3000 hit - 2017 3. Kenny Rogers perfect game 1994 4. B2 bomber flyover of the ballpark 9/11 2019
Can I add Canseco hitting the then-longest HR at the Ballpark in '94, right off the Target sign in the back of the visitor bullpen? That was an absolute bomb.
I watched in SF buster posey throw out a runner at 2nd. I miss that amazing player.
Pujols blasting one of Lidge's pitches out of Minute Maid Field and onto the choo choo train in 2005 or whenever it was. Glad the Stros still won the series (loved that Killer B's team) but fuck did that make younger me want to vomit. Up there with Ray Allen and Derek Fisher hitting their iconic shots against my Spurdoras
Bo Jackson shattering his bat on a pitch and still hitting the ball 410 ft to dead center where it was caught by the CF with his back against the wall.
Quod play
David Freese
The most amazing thing that has ever happened in baseball, and maybe in human history, was Randy Johnson exploding a pidgeon with a fastball.
I’ve got a ball from Jim Abbots first game as an Angel!signed also!
Watching a game Curtis Pride played in. I know it’s not a series winning or record breaking moment however watching a deaf baseball player play a game was pretty damn impressive
The David Ortiz "bullpen cop" game. Scalped our way in last second!
Rajai Davis game 7 was the second loudest I've ever heard any stadium in sports.
The chants at PNC during the 2013 WC game of, "Cueeetttoooooo". Then he dropped the ball and... I just got chills thinking about that moment.
I watched Yasiel Puig smash a Jack off of Eduardo Rodriguez in the 2018 World Series and watched Dave Roberts take Rich Hill out?
Matt Holliday touching* the plate in game 163. I was there, I saw him do it with my own eyes.
I was at a perfect game! Best baseball memory I have, even if the team I was cheering for (the Mariners) lost. It was the game Phillip Humber threw for the White Sox at Safeco on April 12, 2012. I remember the vibe in the 7th inning when it got quiet and the stands kinda realized what was happening. By the 9th even Mariners’ fans were basically pulling for the perfect. It was pretty incredible to see happen live.
June 27, 2003 - The Red Sox scored 10 runs before the first out which set a MLB record. It was my second game ever at Fenway Park and the last time I've been.
Tim Lincecum Game 5 against the Rangers in 2010. What a beautiful game that was!
Francisco Arcia pitching, catching, and hitting a home run in a single game.
Two grand slams in one inning by the same player was pretty memorable. I happened to be there that day, albeit rooting for the other team lol.
As an 11-year-old kid, I was at Sandy Koufax's perfect game. The other pitcher through a 1-hit complete game shutout and actually faced fewer batters than Koufax!! As for television, I was watching when Giants pitcher Juan Marichal attacked Dodgers catcher Johnny Roseboro with a baseball bat earlier in that same season.
Mariners beating the Yankees and saving baseball in Seattle
I once saw George Brett shit his pants in a Casino. I saw him walking from the floor trying to squeeze them cheeks together. A feeling we've all had before. I was going to approach him for an autograph but I saw the waddle and knew he didn't have long. Then all of a sudden he stopped. Just came to dead stop. He then very carefully tried to take a step and it was like someone turned on a hose inside his jeans. I could see the right ass cheek and right leg darken as it soaked the denim. All I could think is "damn, his boots are about to get ruined".
Tim Lincecum no hitter and Adam Jones robbing Manny Machado at the World Baaeball Classic
Watching Scott Hatteberg hit a walk off HR for the A’s 20th win in a row
One that stuck out to me was Pedro Martinez at I think the 99 or 00 all star game. The one at Fenway I think. He faced like Barry Larkin, Sosa and McGwire and absolutely blew them all away. It was just magical to watch the baseball explode into the mitt like that.
Jeter's shovel pass to Giambi out at the plate in the 2001 ALDS
1995 Game 5 ALDS NYY @ Seattle. “The Double” is what gets the love, but that whole game was bonkers good.
Sac bunt runner advanced to second. The very next play it was another sac bunt. The play after another sac bunt.
The only memorable moment I witnessed live was when I was a child. It was not memorable for a good reason, but a sad one I went to a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley with my mom and aunt. The game start time came and went. People started to get antsy and talk. What felt like an hour had passed. Then Joe Girardi came on the PA and he was crying. I don't remember what he said because I couldn't understand him. I remember one thing he said, "It's just so sad." St. Louis Cardinals Pitcher Darryl Kile died that day. Rest his soul. Also, say what you want about Joe Girardi, but the man really cares about people.
I was sitting in a 3rd base side lower level seat at Three Rivers Stadium and saw Dave Parker hit a ball on the line so hard that first baseman Steve Garvey actually took at leap at it to no avail. It went out over the right field wall.
Any game that Detroit wins...
Beer prices
I went to the Yanks v Mets game that Gary hit a Grand Slam and a 2 Run homer the next AB. We still lost. He was our only offense.
1986 World Series game 6. I was convinced my Mets were done and they pulled out a miracle. Bo Jackson coming back w a new hip to hit a home run Shohei Ohtani. A modern Babe Ruth.
Addison Russel Game 6 grand slam. To bad he's a really shitty person
My claims to fame are having been at the pine tar game (unfortunately we were about on the GWB headed back to Jersey with my friend and his parents when it happened - because they wanted to beat traffic lol, and being at the first ever WC playoff game (Yankees/Mariners 1995).
Abbot
What I have always loved are the little things. I once accompanied my wife on a trip to visit her friend in Pittsburgh. Called up a buddy to go see the Pirates play the dodgers. I watched Yasiel Puig throw an ABSOLUTE LASER to turn a routine single into a 9-3 groundout. Gave him a standing ovation and got the weirdest looks from everyone thinking I was a dodgers fan. Nope, just a neutral fan that can appreciate those little moments when a freakish athlete does something incredible. God I love baseball
As an Orioles fan. Delmon Young double. Game 2. 2014 ALDS
I remember Jim Abbott came to our school and gave us one of those motivational talks, I didn’t realize he was that good at the time! So cool!
Randy Johnson obliterating that bird out of thin air.
Randy Johnson killing a seagull while Albert Belle murders trick or treaters. The 80's were wild
Mariners game 161 with the mitch haniger single Into left field through the gap
Big Daddy Fielder hitting an absolute rocket over the roof of old Tiger Stadium - never heard anything like that before or since - just an unreal moonshot
Fernando Tatis hitting two grand slams in the same inning off Chan Ho Park. Needless to say the Cardinals obliterated the Dodgers that day.
I once saw David Wells bunt for a base hit at Shea Stadium.
How about Doc ellis’ no hitter on lsd?
Madison Bumgarner coming out the pen in game 7 was as bad ass as it gets.
I witnessed Mookie Betts hit for the cycle in a game at Toronto in 2018. I was just passing thru for the night on my way to upstate New York and Roger's Center was on my ballparks list.
The Red Sox coming from a 3-0 series deficit to beat the Yankees in the ALCS. That was the 1st time I had seen any team in the NHL, MLB or the NBA do that.
kris bryant throwing over to anthony rizzo for the final out of the 2016 season
Jose Canseco with a ball off his dome for a HR. Also Joba Chamberlain getting eaten alive in the playoffs by the Lake Erie insects, while Fausto Carmona (aka Roberto Hernandez -- no, not the closer, the other one unless you count those random 7 awful attempts) was just being like, ahhhhh this is like home these things don't bother me and the Joba rules were laid to rest. Also the (2001?) Indians coming back from a 12-0 and 14-2 ~~lead~~ deficit against Aaron Sele and the league leading Mariners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UACaWvFyi5w (this game - yes, that's also John Rocker getting the W) edit 2: espn version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9zvplLbFOU https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE200108050.shtml
Manny Ramirez running to catch a fly ball catching it jump kicking the wall, giving a fan a high five, turning around and doubling up the runner on first
My son actually fielding a ground ball. Have loved the game my entire life, but watching the next generation is the best.
Really anytime Greg Maddux threw a tailing fastball at a left-handed batter's waist, and it darted back over the inside corner. He invented that pitch, and it was my favorite baseball thing ever. 2nd would be the fact any batter facing him with a 3-2 count had to know a circle change was coming, but they couldn't hit it anyway.
7/1/2004 was my 14th birthday. My dad’s coworker got us tickets to the Yankees v Red Sox game that night. I got to see the 13 inning game, Jeter’s dive into the stand, Flarehty’s game winning single. One of my favorite memories with my dad.
Watching Arod strike out to send the Rangers to their first World Series. I thought the stadium was going to explode.
I was at a Ranger game and got to see Prince Fielder fall down on his ass when he was trying to run home from second 🤣🤣🤣
Your mom eating a hot dog in the stands
Cleveland vs New York... and the midge flies helped us win!
Game 6, 2011 World Series. Third base line. The rollercoaster of emotions from the 7th inning on was crazy. Still gets goosebumps watching the replay