What is your favorite Major League Baseball moment in history?

Question

Any player, from any team, from any time.

Answer 1

1993, Joe Carter, Toronto Blue Jays, 9th inning, 2 out, hits a homerun, the Jays win the World Series....2nd year in a row...very sweet!

Answer 2

I’ve been to 17 different major league ballparks. I think that there is a toss up between Wrigley Field (Chicago (just so you know there was on in California) and Yankee Stadium. Wrigley cause it’s really fan friendly, the free parking in the streets for day games is awesome and the bathrooms are they way they where in the old days a single troff to urinate in. Yankee Stadium has a great atmosphere; with the history and the being able to stand where Babe Ruth once stood is there any one bigger in any sports other then him. In addition, the prices weren’t as bad as I thought they would be, and the food was pretty good. I think the worse stadium is any stadium in Washington DC. The food sucked was over priced, nothing worse then a $4 hotdog that is cold, and parking was a big pain.

Answer 3

I can't single out one so I'll list some (in no particular favorite order)

1. The L.A. Dodgers hit back to back to back to back home runs for the win last season against the Padres I think it was
2. As a White Sox fan, that whole 2005 year with that Pierzynski play against Anaheim, Jermaine Dye's walk-off home run in the first round, that whole playoff stretch just had everyone here in Chicago ecstatic.
3. My friend was in New York when the Houston Astros used 6 pitchers to no hit the Yanks 2 or 3 years ago. No hitting the Yankees is a huge thing these days when they just buy everyone and everything.
4. Babe Ruth's called shot. Obviously didn't witness it, but that was amazing.
5. Joe Carter's walk-off to win the World Series in 1993 for the Blue Jays.
6. The Roger Clemens vs. Mike Piazza feud when Piazza was beaned in the head and then Clemens chucked the bat him, priceless.
7. Another feud: A-Rod vs. Varitek. Better fist-fight then hockey has every experience. And then the headlock came in...

That's just a few. This really is America's Pastime.

Answer 4

First game I ever attended in person - Crosley Field, Cincinnati, Ohio - September 19, 1964, 1st game of what they then called a twilight doubleheader. Situation - Reds trailing the Cardinals in the last of 9th, 5 -4, with two men on base and two men out with future hall - of - famer Frank Robinson batting against future hall - of - famer Bob Gibson. Result: Robinson launches a drive into the 40 foot high screen behind the left field fence to win the game, 7 -5. From the seat in which I was sitting ( behind the backstop just up the first base line not even a 100 feet from home plate ), it was almost like being at bat myself. Incredible moment. Will never forget it! Don't believe me? Look it up. Oh, and just a sidenote to all this: My seat was also located right next to the ramp that lead down to the Cardinals clubhouse. Between each inning, I was able to lean over the railing and watch as Curt Flood, the Cardinals centerfielder, lit up and puffed away on a cigarette. How sad. The man died of lung cancer at the age of 59.

Answer 5

Just read every answer love the ones involving a particular game, you can do better to the folks only listing a loss by their teams archrival....

I agree most w the guy who had several. All of mine are special & memorable for different reasons....I was at the park for all of these.

Ripkens victory lap at Camden Yards the night he broke the record...shaking hands w everyone he could.

Mike Flanagan's slow walk in from the bullpen to pitch to the last opposing batter ever at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.

The National Anthem & 1st pitch at RFK Stadium when the Nationals played their first game at home as baseball finally returned to the Nation's Capital.

Eddie Murray hitting his 500th career home run.

Gaylord Perry winning his 300th game.

Brady Anderson hitting his 50th homer of the season to become the 1st 50/50 man in MLB history (tho now I realize steroids were probably involved)

Johnny Bench hitting two monster homers in the 69 All Star Game (I was 14)

Seeing Whitey Ford & Mantle play the first time I saw a game in person in '65

Baseball is a wonderful game & I've been truly blessed to experience so many games in person!!

Answer 6

Derek Jeter jumpping in the stands when the Yanks were versin the Boston REd Sox and...
Derek Jeter going near the catcher and throwing it to JOrge Posada when they were versin the Oakland A's and...
Aaron Boone hit the walk off homerun against the REd Sox in the playoffs

Answer 7

Any moment where the Yankees win the World Series. I would have to rank it up there with Don Mattingly's home run in Game 2 of the A.L.D.S against the Seattle Mariners.

Answer 8

April 25, 1976, Dodger Stadium, The Chicago Cubs against the Los Angeles Dodgers, bottom of the fourth inning, with the Cubs leading 1-0.

Suddenly two yahoos run out on the field (presumably father & son) and in some sort of protest, attempt to burn an American Flag.

Rick Monday, running in from center field, thinks to maybe bowl the two of them over, but upon realizing what it is they are trying to do, he saves the flag instead.

There is cheering, and on the score board, the message "Rick Monday, you made a great play," appears.

Then for a moment there is silence. All of a suddden from a corner of the stadium, the crowd stands and begins to sing 'American the Beautiful."

From this, the rest of the crowd stands and begins to sing. Inside the dugouts, both teams stand up, remove their caps and join in. The players and base coaches on the field also remove their caps and join in.

If baseball is America, then there is no finer moment...

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Answer 9

The entire 2004 post season. Coming back on the Yankees after being down 3-0. That's history...and for a Sox fan getting to and winning the Series by getting through the Yankees in that manner. C'mon.. it doesn't get any better.

Answer 10

I have two and both because I was at the game.

#1 - 1988 first game of the World Series. Bottom of the ninth inning, 2 out and the most un-hittable closer in the league, Dennis Eckersley, is on the mound. Lasorda calls the hobbled Gibson in to pinch hit. Gibson who can barely walk let alone run the bases limps to the plate. Gibson then proceeds to foul off pitch after pitch. The effort is so herculean on his crippled knees that Gibson falls down after every swing and has to make an obviously agonizing climb back to his feet.

Then in one of the sweetest, most dramatic moments EVER in sports, Gibson parks that ball into the pavilion. The Dodger's rode the overwhelming emotion of that game to their last World Series win.

The second was when Rickey Henderson hit the home run that gave him 2246 runs and it hit the wall literally inches off my glove. For me it means that when ever I go to Cooperstown I will get to see my mug on the screen reaching for that ball. It made me an immortal. LOL Seriously, Rickey truly was the greatest leadoff hitter of all time and I had the privilege of sitting in the front row in LF at the Q and watching him play!

Answer 11

Seeing Kirby Puckett hit the game winning Home Run in game 6 of the 91 World Series against Atlanta.