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After getting the first out of the inning, Dodger reliever Jay Howell served up a home run ball to Mark McGwire on what was just the A's fifth hit of the game, as they came away with the win. However, the Cubs scored a pair of runs in the top of the eighth to tie things up, and after holding the Padres scoreless in the bottom of the inning, they too were unable to score in the top of the ninth. The game made it to the bottom of the 10th, when the Angles turned to starter Jarrod Washburn to relieve Francisco Rodriguez with one on and two out to face the left-handed David Ortiz. He managed to throw one pitch, and just like that, the game and the series was over. Up 2-0 in the series, the Red Sox came into Game 3 looking to slam the door on a series sweep of the Angels, and they came out hot, jumping out to a 6-1 lead after five innings.
However, umpire Rich Garcia awarded Jeter a home run and the game was tied. After each team scored one run in the eighth, the both teams went to their closers in the ninth. Rivera got the Mariners out in order in the top of the inning, but Kaz Sasaki was not as lucky. He surrendered a one-out single to Scott Brosius before giving up a two-run bomb to Alfonso Soriano for the Yankees win.
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The 2001 Fall Classic between the Diamondbacks and Yankees started later in October because of 9/11 and emotions were at a fever pitch during the three games played in New York. They may have very well peaked when Jeter took the plate in the 10th inning of Game 4 shortly after midnight on Nov. 1. Facing a full count with his team down two games to one against Arizona, Jeter hit a walk-off home run to tie the Series.
The 1994 strike shut down everything until the following spring. There was no baseball and no singing and no resolution in that budding division race. Lately, I've been thinking a lot about what that time felt like. The next afternoon, I bumped into Yankees third baseman Scott Brosius outside the clubhouse, and he wore the biggest grin, confirming what I assumed, that he was still thinking about Tino's home run. Before Brosius continued into the clubhouse, he said, in so many words -- that's something we'll never see again in our lifetimes.
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Although the Yankees would ultimately lose in seven games, Mantle’s home run has not been forgotten. The steroid era in Major League Baseball brought shame upon the game, but it also placed several names near or at the top of the all-time home run lists. The best hitters of the 1990s have changed the way we view offensive numbers entirely. But prior to the early ’90s, baseball history offered a different picture of home run hitters. Here are the 10 best home-run hitters prior to the steroid era.
I thought, WOW! A souviner ball, for ME! As I reached down to pick it up.......some total jerk threw himself under my seat and grabbed it.
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1974 I think. George Foster at the plate. First pitch he swings and misses. His swing looked like a 5 year old whiffing at tee ball. Second pitch same as the first. I think I could have looked better swinging and missing.
Pujols burst on the scene with 37 home runs as a rookie with the Cardinals in 2001 and he proceeded to hit at least 40 six times in his first decade in the big leagues. Pujols passed Willie Mays for fifth place on the all-time list in style with his 60th career multi-home run game on Sept. 18, 2020. During the season, he had been 1-for-13 with no RBIs with two outs and runners on base in late-inning pressure situations, and he had not hit a home run all season with two outs and runners on base.
1994 National League MVP Jeff Bagwell played 15 seasons for the Astros and hit at least 15 homers in each of the first 14. Mike Piazza hit 35 or more home runs six times in his MLB career, starting with his Rookie of the Year season for the Dodgers in 1993. Darrell Evans played in the big leagues from 1969 to 1989, leading the majors with 40 home runs in 1985.
Had yankee season tickets but primarily to get yanks/redsox tix. Needless to say i got first crack at postseason. Several memorable dingers but hard to top the comeback w damons grandslam. I was at the 1985 All-Star home run contest, and Eddie Murray hit a blast down the right-field line that hit the speaker hanging from the ceiling. I don't believe that had been done before or after.
Started pc’ing his cards that day. Ridiculous what they are worth today. Only two that I can think of. Roberto Clemente hit a grand slam against the Dodgers in 1971? For some reason that one stands out in my mind. But.....the best home run that I ever saw was the one that hit the right field foul pole at Dodger Stadium and the ball bounced back and landed under my seat!
The Orioles still led 4-3 and it was now two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning. The crowd was cheering, but, again, those had to be the fans who assume every deep fly is long gone. Warren Wimmer/Icon SportswireThe scoreboard beyond the right-field bleachers had just been installed. Otherwise this majestic blast by Chicago Cubs left fielder Kyle Schwarber would have ended up on the street and eventually be forgotten. But when Schwarber landed his 419-foot home run on top of the scoreboard, it instantly became a legendary blast.
Byung-Hyun Kim was on the mound. The Yankees trailed by two runs, again. Brosius swung, and as he followed through and tracked the ball soaring toward left field, he raised his arms in celebration; Brosius had tied the game with a home run. Something that hadn't happened in a World Series game in 72 years happened in back-to-back nights in Yankee Stadium. For decades, Babe Ruth was the undisputed Dinger King of baseball. If there was a home run record to be held, chances are The Babe held it -- he even set the single-season home run record four separate times, from 29 to 54 to 59 to, finally, 60 with the 1927 Yankees.
Reynolds, who gave up just two hits in the game, retired the Dodgers in order in the top of the ninth, as he was absolutely dominant the entire game. The opening game of the 1949 World Series was the definition of a pitcher's duel, as the Dodgers Don Newcombe and Yankees Allie Reynolds each threw eight scoreless frames. After the Astros jumped out to a 4-0 lead after the second inning, the Mets managed to tie things up with a four run sixth inning.
Although New York would lose the in seven games, Jeter’s home run remains etched in our memories. It wasn’t so much the volume of Sosa’s first-round performance at then-Miller Park in Milwaukee , but more about where these dingers went. One ball hit the top of the Bernie Brewer slide.
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