Is it Reggie Jackson's hat trick? Carlton Fisk willing the ball fair? Kirk Gibson hobbling around the bases? Willie Mays' catch? Brooklyn winning its first and only trophy?
I love it when the unlikeliest of men become legends. Don Larson, a rather average pitcher, dominated the powerful Brooklyn lineup, and pitched the only no-hitter in post season history, and he was... perfect.
2007-10-24 04:58:40 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
You replace-Mets fans crack me up! Your greatest moment is an error by the other team? Hah!
2007-10-24 14:00:52 · update #1
Jack Morris, game 7, in '91 of the games I actually saw.
A case could be made for Dusty Rhodes in the '54 Series. Willie Mays made the catch, but Dusty Rhodes went 3 for 3 with a home run and 6 RBI as a pinch-hitter in a Series that was really much closer than you'd think for a 4-0 sweep. He also hit another home run in a game where he stayed in and got another at bat later in the game. He didn't start a game and only played in 3, but wound up with 2 home runs and 7 RBI to lead in both categories. Leo Durocher described him by saying, "a buffoon is a drunk on a hitting spree". How could not like him?
2007-10-24 05:41:34 · answer #1 · answered by Bob G 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As an Orioles fan my number 1 moment is Cal Ripken catching the soft line drive right at that clinched the world series in game 5 against the Phillies on the road. I wasn't old enough to see experience it, but I've seen the footage, Ripken just snags the ball right out of the air, and runs towards his teammates gathering around 3rd base waiving his glove in the air.
As for non Orioles moments, I say it's hard to go against the Kurt Gibson homerun against Dennis Eckersly. He was limping around the bases, but he found a way to muscle the ball out of the park.
2007-10-24 15:44:31 · answer #2 · answered by Baltimore Birds Fan 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don Denkinger calling Jorge Orta safe (when he was quite obviously out) at 1st base in Game 6 of the 1985 Series. That directly led to the Royals winning their only World Series and there has only been one playoff game in KC since then - Game 7.
2007-10-24 16:43:34 · answer #3 · answered by DoReidos 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Jays fan, so for me it's Joe Carter's walkoff homer to win the 1993 Series. I'm not a big fan of hugging other guys, but I think I grabbed everyone around me when that ball cleared the fence.
We had the TV volume off so we could listen to Tom Cheek, and that call will stay with me for the rest of my life - "Touch 'em all, Joe! You'll never hit a bigger home run in your life!"......what an amazing time that was to be a Jays fan.
2007-10-24 12:34:32 · answer #4 · answered by Craig S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not going to include moments where I wasn't alive or too young to remember. Here's mine:
(1) Adam Wainwright striking out Brandon Inge on 3 pitches in Game 5 to give the Cardinals their first World Series win since 1982 and my first experience rooting for them when they've gone all the way.
Others:
- Angels' comeback against the Giants in 2002.
- Basically the whole 2001 World Series, Arizona over the Yankees. Too many great moments in that one to count.
- Beckett's shutout of the Yankees in New York in '03 to give the Marlins the series win.
- Kirk Gibson's pinch-hit HR against Oakland (obvious)
- Kirby Puckett's game-winner against the Braves.
- Joe Carter's series-winning HR against the Phillies. Joe Carter has no right to ever complain about anything ever again.
- Edgar Renteria's series-winning hit in 1997 for the Marlins.
- Yankees-Mets subway series was fun.
- White Sox winning their first World Series after a long drought in 2005...even if they are the second team in the second city.
And if the Rockies win this season, it will be a favorite too.
2007-10-24 12:29:10 · answer #5 · answered by Js_5 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
For me it was when Carlton Fisk waved the ball fair in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series. There are a variety of baseball reasons and non-baseball (family) reasons for this. But listening to Dick Stockton say "If it stays fair.... HOMERUN !!!" and then watching Fisk jump in exhulation and run around the bases like a kid will live in my heart forever.
2007-10-24 12:45:06 · answer #6 · answered by gotttalovittt 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As a Yankees fan, I have a lot to choose from, so that's a hard question.
I'll pick one where the Yankees lost the series - 2001, Game 5 when Scott Brosius hit a bottom of the ninth home run to tie the game the day after Tino Martinez hit a bottom of the ninth home run to tie game 4. That was just so improbable I just couldn't fathom it.
2007-10-24 14:03:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Two moments come to mind:
Game 6 of the 1986 World Series - When that wild pitch went by Mookie Wilson, I swear I could hear the roar of the crowd from my house, and I live a half mile away!
Game 4 of the 2004 Series - When the Red Sox were announced as champions, l was online celebrating with fellow Red Sox fans and on the phone trying to talk my then-boyfriend out of burning his Yankee jacket!
2007-10-24 13:39:38 · answer #8 · answered by capgirl732 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I was just a kid. Dizzy Dean was announcing the World Series when Mickey Mantle hit his record 16th home run off of the Cardinals' Barney Shultz. It hit the facade of the upper deck, and Ol' Diz pronounced it the way it's spelled. I'll never forget it. Mantle was my favorite player and that was the first significant record I saw with my eyes. It was great.
2007-10-24 13:26:31 · answer #9 · answered by Sarrafzedehkhoee 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say Reggie Jackson hitting 4 consecutive home runs in 4 consectivte at bats in the 1977 World Series.
Most people forgot that Reggie homered in his last at bat in game 5 in LA. He then went on to hit 3 in a row in game 6.
2007-10-24 12:38:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋