OT: Coolest Home Runs You've Witnessed

[byrone]

Watching on TV as Joe Carter hit his World Series winning homer run off Mitch Williams.

I had a premonition just as Williams started his wind-up that the pitch was getting hammered, and couldn't believe it when Carter actually came thru.

Cool, but weird too

[packs]

I know this isn't an important home run, but I was at Yankee Stadium one day for a game against the Tigers and Damion Easly crushed a ball most of the way up the black seats in left center. It was one of the longest bombs I've ever seen and hit by such a relatively little guy. I went to Yankee games at the old stadium for 20 years and never saw anyone else hit a home run that deep.

Another time Manny Ramirez crushed a ball about half way up the upper deck in left field in the rain. What a bomb probably the only time I saw someone hit one into the left field upper deck at the stadium too.

[almostdone]

Was in Atlanta and saw my favorite player, Ken Griffey Jr., hit one to pass Frank Robinson on the all time HR list to number 6. Only time I saw him hit one live.
Drew

[whitehse]

I have to add another home run I saw in person and actually watched it sail over my head. It was hit by the incredible home run hitter of the Pirates.......Doug Frobel. I have to say that I have soon some moon shots but after seeing over 1000 games in person at Wrigley Field, this was the most impressive shot I have seen in the old ball yard.

Here is a link from that game.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=5115,5946533

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by packs

I know this isn't an important home run, but I was at Yankee Stadium one day for a game against the Tigers and Damion Easly crushed a ball most of the way up the black seats in left center. It was one of the longest bombs I've ever seen and hit by such a relatively little guy. I went to Yankee games at the old stadium for 20 years and never saw anyone else hit a home run that deep.

Another time Manny Ramirez crushed a ball about half way up the upper deck in left field in the rain. What a bomb probably the only time I saw someone hit one into the left field upper deck at the stadium too.

I can identify with that. One night in the eighties I was at Yankee Stadium vs the White Sox. A lackluster game and the crowd is nonplussed. Hal Baines comes up to bat. The sound of the ball off the bat was incredible and the ball was really high and rising before it even left the infield area, and it was still rising when it landed in the right field upper deck, and it didn't take too much time to get there.

Another time, in 1999, I was given a pair of tickets for the Mets NLDS. My friend and I are both Yankee fans (but not Mets haters). Todd Pratt hits a walk-off in the 10th to send the Mets to NLCS. Video clips of this are deceiving because they have cheering all the way through. The crowd was indeed making a lot of noise in anticipation as the ball went out to center, and the fielder's glove went up over the wall as the ball was going over. But the crowd went completely silent for what seemed like an eternity. Nobody knew. Then the fielder opens his glove. Empty. Then the crowd erupts.

[guy3050]

Saw this one live on a cold Monday afternoon at the Olympic Stadium....still painful to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC-dFGBglWs

[HRBAKER]

Dave Justice of the Braves off Jim Poole of the Indians to account for the only run in Game 6 of the 1995 WS. Tom Glavine one-hit the Indians and the Braves won 1-0 to win the WS.

[bigfanNY]

Funny other post on important hits I posted these three

1- Jeter 2001 world series game 4 Live
2-Jeter's 300th hit Live
3-Jeter's only inside the park Homer vs KC Live
4 Buckey Dent on TV
5 Arron Boone on TV

[bigfanNY]

Funny other post on important hits I posted these three

1- Jeter 2001 world series game 4 Live
2-Jeter's 300th hit Live
3-Jeter's only inside the park Homer vs KC Live
4 Buckey Dent on TV
5 Arron Boone on TV

[CamaroCPA]

Live: First game I took my daughter to... Morneau hit one in the top of the 10th or eleventh in Detroit to put the Twins ahead after a great comeback. They went on to win the game. I was the only one standing and cheering in my section. Boy, did I get an earful from a lot of people!

TV: Puckett's Game 6 blast off Liebrandt in 1991. "And we'll see you tomorrow night!"

[clydepepper]

While I was playing in College in 1974, we traveled several hundred miles to play Florida State. While the final score was 10-1 'noles, we considered ourselves lucky it wasn't much worse. They were a Nationally Ranked Division I powerhouse and we were just a good Division III team. There were 10,000 fans attending - about 20 times what we normally draw.

Behind the outfield fence was a row of say, twenty-foot high trees stretching from the left-field corner all the way to the right-field corner. Behind that was a standard sized sidewalk and street and across the street was the FSU outdoor circus including a trapeze net...which was about ten yards away from the street, behind a fence.

Anyway, after our starting pitcher was relieved of his torment, our junk-ball relief specialist was called on to pitch to their first baseman, an Hispanic lad with no apparent neck.

The first pitch was in the dirt as was the second. Pressure dictated a strike at this point and that is what was delivered.

The ball was still going up as it sailed over the twenty-foot trees in center-field and it landed - on the fly - in the trapeze net.

I got in a lot of trouble on the bus ride home yapping on and on about how far it must have traveled.

I have probably see five hundred high school, college and pro games since and never have seen one close to that.

[Koufax32fan]

In person: Freese, Game 6 of 2011 WS, McGwire 62, Sutcliffe in game 1 of 1984 NLCS.

TV: Gibson in '88, easily.

On DVD: Mazeroski in 1960.