The Natural : Greatest Real MLB Moments?

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Nolan Ryan striking out Roberto Alomar to close out his 7TH NO HITTER!

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'Aaron Boone deep to left... and the Yankees are going to the World Series!'

'Ground ball, up along first, behind the bag... gets by Buckner, here comes Knight and the Mets win it!'

'Ball hit to left, Yaztremski will not get it, it's a home run! a three-run home run for Bucky Dent and the Yankees lead it by a score of 3-2.'

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Both David Right's and Ozzie Smith's barehanded diving catches.

DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak

Pete Rose breaking Ty Cobb's all time hit record.

Cannot forget the Red Sox coming back from 3 games down to beat the Yankees. It was even better having won the World Series.

David Ortiz's Game Winners

1. Game Winning Home Run against Angels to win 2004 ALDS

2. Game Winning Home Run against Yankees in Game 4 of 2004 ALCS

3. Game Winning Single against Yankees in Game 5 of 2004 ALCS

These Last two are my favorites. I will never forget staying up to watch the 2004 ALCS games on school nights, and then going to school the next day barely awake. I swear I walked part of the halls with my eyes closed.



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It's kind of sad that a few of you Red Sox fans' favorite baseball moments are moments of the Yankees failing. But, I guess that makes since, since there are so few moments where the Red Sox are succeeding, so might as well root against the Yanks, right? I guess what's even more sad is that one or two Yankee fans just posted moments where the Red Sox failed. That's just wrong. Red Sox fans may have an excuse for their favorite moments to be Yankee failure, but us Yankee fans have a larger pool of success to draw from, and shouldn't be worried about those Red Sox.
Anyways, here are my personal favorite moments:
1. Jim Leyritz's HR in the 1996 World Series
2. Derek Jeter's walkoff in the 2001 WS to make him Mr. November.
3. Aaron Boone's walkoff in the 2003 ALCS.

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Anytime the mystique of this simple game transcends reality and in some cases even the imagination of movie scripts!

Best Examples in My Opinion Are:

1. Kirk Gibson's Homerun...I mean I couldn't talk for about a half hour...it was like I saw a UFO land in my backyard. It was that unbelievable to me.

2. Boston finally winning...and coming back after being down 3-0...After near a century. It was the only possible way for it to happen and is in keeping with the spirit of the martyrdom/penitence of the largely catholic based Red Sox Fan! I bought pizza and a couple of rounds for all of the people at my local bar in Savannah. If I remember right there was a red hue around the moon that night and Schilling's Bloody Red Sock! Can't write that stuff in movies cause an audience wouldn't believe it!

3. The Angels unlikely Game 6 comeback to beat the Giants (and Bonds!) in 2002 and capture their first ever World Series. I remember listening in my car praying for a comeback and that team of misfits/quirks just wouldn't stop. They kept getting unlikely hits by non-superstars (Erstad/Spiezio) allowing them to pull off in my opinion one of the greatest comebacks ever. I was in tears.

4. Recently the Red Sox hit 4 Homeruns in a row @ Fenway and I felt the same as with Gibson...speechless...1..then 2..then 3...and then 4..It was like there was voodoo being practiced at the stadium that night. I know the Dodgers did it last year but I didn't see that live on TV...This was incredible.

5. Kevin Mitchell catches fly ball with his bare hand! It was a beautiful catch and looked like a magic trick.

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I can't remember the year, but Pedro Martinez threw a perfect 9 innings, 27 up-27 down. Then he came out and gave up a homer in the tenth.

Who the hell these days even throws 7-8 innings, let alone a full game of perfection. Too bad the Expos couldn't get one damn run to give him the win!

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George Brett's magical run at batting 400 in 1980 for the Royals.

Also the Jack Morris performance is very special also.

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They made a movie about the 2004 Red Sox

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Mazerowski's walk off home run to beat the Yankees in game 7 of the '60 World Series. Larson's perfect game in the '56 series. Amoros making that great catch in left field to preserve Podres's game 7 victory over the Yankees in '55, as the Dodgers finally win the Series. Thompson's "shot heard round the world" in the '51 playoff against the Dodgers. Most painful great moment for this Indians fan, Mays making "The Catch" in game 1 of the '54 series, turning all the momentum in the Giants' favor.

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Mike Schmidt hitting a two run home run in the 11th inning to clinch the pennant in Montreal in 1980. Montreal was the team there were tied with. If you remember the stadium the Expos played in, you'll remember it was huge (in fact a few years later the fences had to be moved IN). If you are a Phillies fan than you know the significance of this homer. After years of failure in the playoffs, as a team and Schmidt coming up small in those games, this was their and his time. Schmidt buried it and the rest is history.

Also, Gibby's homer was second for me. (sorry I'm from Philly..lol)

Nolan Ryan's pitching his last two no hitters (without the juice Clemmens!!!!)

Kirby Puckett doing EVERYTHING to win his second World Series.

and Ken Griffey Sr and Jr hitting back to back homers.

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1. Brad Ausmus hits a tying homerun to send them into extra innnings in the NLCS vs. the Cards in 2005..and then Burke hit the game winning homer in the 18th inning..the 'Stros eventually went to the Series..I have the framed newspaper from the morning after they clinched "HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PENNANT" it reads..it was very uplifting..cause we were still getting used to life after Hurricane Rita tore through southeast Texas.

2. 2007 season Red Sox rookie Clay Bucholtz throws a no hitter..I played against him in high school and he shredded us to pieces..it's nice seeing I wasn't the only one having trouble hitting off that kid.

3. Anytime Adam Dunn homers..I was too young to play against him, but my brother did..his school was in our district when he was in high school.

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Kirby Puckett doing EVERYTHING to win his second World Series.
Oh man, ya. The 1991 World Series might've been the best ever.

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1. Kirk Gibson HR- Game One 1988 WS

2. Bobby Thompson,1951playoff vs Dodgers

3.Bob Gibson,1968 WS Game One masterpiece

4.Reggie Jackson HR in 1971 All-Star game. The longest ever?

5.Bernie Carbo's 3 run homer in Game 6, 1975 WS. Wouldn't have Fisk's without it.

6.Dave Henderson's 9th inning homer, Game 5 1986 ALCS.

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Hank Aaron's Home Run off the Cardinals' Billy Muffet in 11th inning on September 23, 1957 to clich NL pennant for Milwaukee Braves. I saw an interview in which Aaron said that was his most memorable homer.

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Lou Gehrigs farewell speach.
Jack Morris 10 inning shutout.
Pucketts catch.
Pucketts walkoff.
Don Larsens perfect game.
Ruths called shot.

Just to name a few of my favorites.

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My favorite is Kirby Puckett hitting the walk-off home run in Game 6 in the '91 series. "We'll see you tomorrow night!"

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Gibson's home run tops them all. It was only game 1, but of course, we all know the story. It was magical. And it was aided by some of the most elegant commentating of Vin Scully's career. Simply priceless.


Aside from that, you just can't beat the series-winning home runs of Carter and Mazeroski. Bobby Thomson is their equal because of the massive comeback of the Giants that season.

Everything else pales in comparison, in my opinion.

I'm surprised so many people have overlooked Carter's home run, but I suppose this sort of thing is subjective.

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Watching Jonathan Sanchez’s no hitter for the Giants up in Frisco a couple weeks ago. Intense: the crowd, the game, the fog, the night sky. Everything.

One catch by the CF in the top of the 9th was akin to the catch in this movie where the guy runs through the wall. But the Giant didn’t, thankfully. And he didn't die, either. Always a good thing.

What was neat was Sanchez’s dad had never seen him pitch in the MLB in person before the game he pitched the no hitter.

Also: I had this book in my overcoat pocket at the time.

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Joe Carter's World Series-winning homerun for the Toronto Blue Jays. I can't think of a greater baseball moment in the past 20 years.

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I'm only 22 so I wasn't able to see Gibson's homer live, but as far as I can tell that's the greatest moment in MLB history.

As a Cleveland fan, two very special ones for me are Sandy Alomar's game-winning HR in the '97 All Star Game (which was in Cleveland) and his game winning HR off Mariano Rivera in Game 4 of the ALDS that same year. The Tribe went all the way to game 7--and inning 9- of the Series that year only to lose it. But that's just baseball for you. What a fantastic year.

Approximate number of movies I've seen in the theater: 83.

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haha wow just looked through the rest of this nest and saw that i already wrote about these moments years ago.

Hope everyone is excited for a new season--I just watched this movie to get in the mood. Never seen it all the way through before tonight. Great flick!!

Approximate number of movies I've seen in the theater: 83.

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3. Greg Maddux throwing a complete game shutout with just 78 pitches. Less than 9 pitches per inning.

2. Dante Bichette opening Coors Field with a walk-off 14th inning homer.

1. Nolan Ryan putting Robin Venturan in a headlock and pummeling him for charging the mound. If you're going to charge the mound, you'd better be able to take out the pitcher, especially if he's in his mid-40s.

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"...and the 0-1 pitch on the way to Edgar Martinez...swung on and lined down the left field line for a base hit! Here comes Joey! Here is Junior to third base..they're gonna wave him in! The throw to the plate will be....LATE! THE MARINERS ARE GOING TO PLAY FOR THE AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP! I DON'T BELIEVE IT! IT JUST CONTINUES!"


I can't believe this thread is going on 7 years old and I'm the first one to mention The Double. Game 5 of 95 ALDS is ranked by the MLB itself as the 15th greatest game ever played.


Is this anyway to treat the team that saved baseball? (i might be overdoing it here)


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I was there, down that left field line. Probably the best sports moment I've ever witnessed. That late run to the playoffs by the Mariners arguably saved baseball in Seattle no doubt. Well, the politicians made sure it saved baseball because a public vote around that time came up short for providing public funds for building the swanky new Safeco Field! But as we know it did get built despite a non-majority of voters supporting it. Crazy world.

Game 6 of the 2011 World Series has clearly got to be one of the greatest real MLB moments- the entire series was amazing.

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i agree with most of these but nobody had chris chamblisses playoff series walk off homer to put the yankees in the world series in 76 after a 12 year absence.

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Game 7 of the 2001 World Series and Game 6 of the 2011 World Series come to mind.



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As a Giants fan, Brian Wilson striking out Nelson Cruz to end the 2010 World Series. From the 2002 Game 6 nightmare, I was convinced, after Edgar Renteria put the Giants up 3-0 with his homer, that the roof was going to cave in again. After Wilson ended it, I started laughing with relief. Other highlights from that postseason: the Renteria homer itself, the rally to win NLDS Game 3 after being down to their last strike, Cody Ross breaking up Derek Lowe's no-hitter with a homer in NLDS Game 4, Juan Uribe's walk-off sacrifice fly in NLCS Game 4, Uribe's go-ahead homer in NLCS Game 6, and Wilson inducing a line-out double play to kill a Phillies rally in the eighth inning of NLCS Game 6.

Also, other title-drought-enders, such as the Red Sox winning in '04 and the White Sox in '05. Did you notice that teams that have been through long periods without a WS title tend to win the WS only in blowouts (Red Sox, White Sox, Giants) or by beating similarly cursed teams (Braves over Indians, Angels over Giants)?

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Since my lost post was 6 years ago, here are some new ones from me:

2007-Phillies, seemingly out of it, go on a September tear to overtake the Mets on the last day of the season. Of course we subsequently get swept by the Rockies.

2008-Game 2 NLDS, Brett Myers has long at bat against CC Sabbathia in which he ended up walking. Then Shane Victorino hitting the grand slam to break the game open.

2008-Game 4 NLCS Phils down 5-3 in the 8th. Victorino hits a liner over the left field wall to tie the game. Then Matt Stairs hits a bomb to left off of Broxton(beginning Broxton's string of futility against the Phillies). This pretty much wraps up the series(Phils won 5-1 in game 5).

2008-Game 4 World Series-Joe Blanton hits first world series homerun by a pitcher since 1974.

2009-Game 1 NLDS, Roy Halladay throwing only the 2nd no-hitter in in post season history, this after pitching a perfect game earlier in the season.

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Point of playing the season is to win the World Series so my top 5 include:

1. Bill Mazeroski's Series walkoff HR - game was tied 9-9, series was tied 3-3

2. Joe Carter's Series walkoff HR - they won the Series 4-2


Incredible considering the circumstance and the culmination of one of the greatest comebacks ever:

3. Bobby Thompson's "Shot Heard Round the World"


Future Implications on the game:

4. Jackie Robinson plays - take that Ty Cobb!


Momentous Career Achievements:

5. Hank Aaron's 715 - overcame death threats and tons of other obstacles to reach it

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chris davis pitching a scoreless 16th inning @ the red sox last year for the o's.




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Bucky Dent's home run in the 1978 American League East tie-breaker game.
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