Favorite mlb moment/play! True fan must vote!?

Question

Type in your favorite mlb moment or play and possibly state your reason why. Give thumbs up and thumbs down. Star if you like. Answer with the biggest difference between thumb-up and thumb-down will be given best answer

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Answer 1

Steve Bartman interfering with a foul ball in game 6 of the NLCS.

Answer 2

1996 World Series Game 4 The Braves could not score on the New York bullpen and in the eighth, manager Bobby Cox decided to put closer Mark Wohlers in the game an inning early. Wohlers allowed two hits, then reserve catcher Jim Leyritz connected for a stunning game-tying home run. In the tenth, Steve Avery walked in the go-ahead run, then Braves first baseman Ryan Klesko lost a routine pop-up in the lights, leading to another Yankee run. John Wetteland shut the Braves down in the bottom of the inning as the Yankees, who had come back from a 6-0 hole, won 8-6 and firmly shifted the momentum of the series.

“ In the air to left field. Back, at the track, at the wall we are tied! ”
Joe Buck, calling Jim Leyritz's game-tying, three-run home run in Game 4.

Game 7 In the ninth, John Wetteland gave up a run, making it 3-2, but got the save when Mark Lemke popped out to third baseman Charlie Hayes with the tying run on second. The Yankees were champions once again, with Wetteland notching saves in all four of New York's victories, earning him the Series MVP.

“ They have surmounted every challenge, they have climbed every mountain... ”
—John Sterling, WABC radio, after the Yankees won

“ Another chance to the left side, Hayes waits.........The Yankees are champions of baseball! ”
—Joe Buck, FOX

I can still hear Sterling going nuts on the raido during both of these moments.....I think the reason why these two moments happen to be my favorite plays is because this is the first time since 1978 and I will remember it for along time to come. I was a little to young to remeber much of the 1978 Series!!

Answer 3

If you're talking about favorite player playing right now i'd have to say Michael Young he's put together 5 straight 200 hit season's and has been really the only consistant in the Texas Rangers line up other than Tex and to awnser your question you asked on mine earlier they traded him b/c he was unhappy but the Rangers where still out of their mind for doing it. My favorite player of all time though has to be Junior and yes even though he's still playing I consider his true playing days in Seattle b/c he hasn't been as consitant scince going to the Reds but he still has 600 career home runs and the way he played this season even though he's 38 I don't see any reason why he won't reach 700 granit he'll have to play untill he's 45 and stay healthy but he's a truely nice guy who's one true love has allways been baseball I only wish when he does retire he can do it with a ring..

Answer 4

MIne is simple and has little to do with an actual play in a game. The game was the day that Cal Ripken broke the consecutive games played record. Why is it my favorite? That was the moment that I realized that my favorite sport, the National pasttime would survive that strike from the year before. It unified the sports world, his ceremony was broadcast throughout the nation and you finally felt like peopel were paying attention to baseball again. Without that moment Baseball today may be a whole lot different, shall I even say reduced to NHL status. Cal was a player that showed class all the time and brought respect back to baseball.

Answer 5

Different moments deliver different emotional responses.

Ecstasy: 27-Oct-2004, Renteria hits a comebacker to Foulke, and that was the moment -- about 1.5 seconds before the actual putout made -- that I metaphorically exhaled the breath I had been holding for my entire fan life, knowing that, at last, this time, here, now, it could not escape, not be blown. And it wasn't.

Stunner: Gibson's limp-off home run off Eck to win Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. Like Jack Buck, I could. not. believe. what. I just. saw.

Goofy-weird play: Burks catching a fly ball to shallow CF. To avoid colliding with converging infielders, he bailed out into an on-his-back slide; the ball fell directly center his chest, bounded slightly forward, and Burks clenched it between his thighs. Once he had the umpire's attention, he withdrew it, held it aloft. Out!

Goofy-weird moment in general: Lyons sliding into first, jumping up, unbuckling and dropping trou to scoop out the dirt, and a heartbeat later the penny drops as he realizes just WHAT HE IS DOING and WHERE HE IS DOING IT!!! And this is, in part, why I love baseball and no other sport -- because no other sport is on the same continent when it comes to providing such moments.

Agony: 02-Oct-1978, Yaz popping up to Nettles, and the summer ends so coldly.

Despair: 25-Oct-1986, Schiraldi cannot close it out, Stanley blows the lead with a wild pitch, and Buckner gets the seminal moment of a teamwide collapse as the Mets roar back to take Game 6. I knew, immediately then, that Game 7 would be played but to no avail, a final chance in name only.

Actual game moment -- Foulke.

Baseball moment -- Lyons, because there is just nothing else like it.

Answer 6

Game 6 1993 - Toronto Blue Jays vs.Phillidelpia and Joe Carter hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth to win the World Series. The joy on that man's face was the best moment in baseball for me.

Answer 7

2 stick out in my mind:

The first is the best defensive play I've ever seen in a game. Ozzie Smith in 1978(then with the Padres) dives up the middle for a ball, but the ball take a horrible hop to the left (the direction he had dove from.) He reached up over his head and barehanded the ball, got up and threw the runner out at first. I'll put a link to the video if I can find one.

Second, is a home run I'll never forget. It was on a saturday afternoon about 10 years ago. Glenallen Hill hit a home run out of Wrigley that landed on the roof of a building across the street. It's an apartment building that had stands build on the roof. Here's the video:

http://uncutvideo.aol.com/videos/cb6a6f829d3f3860372d740ee3191a0a
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Answer 8

My personal favorite is Don Denkinger's blown call at first base in game 6 of the 1985 World Series that allowed Kansas City to eventually take home the trophy.

Answer 9

Robin Ventura's Grand Slam Single in the 15th inning to win Game 5 of the 1999 NLCS for the Mets over the Braves. Maybe because I was at Shea to see it, maybe because the Mets had never beaten the Braves at anything (We still ended up losing the series. Thanks Kenny Rogers), or maybe because it was a grand slam single to win a 15 inning playoff game.

Next choice would be Mookie's grounder going between Buckner's legs in the 1986 World Series.

Answer 10

My favorite has always been Kirk Gibson hitting the home run in Game 1 of the world series off of Eckersley