OT: Coolest Home Runs You've Witnessed

[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.

[71buc]

I've seen most all of the TV HRs mentioned so far. My favorites I witnessed firsthand were McGwire's 60th and 61st in 1998. My son loved McGwire and we purchased tickets to those two games during the spring at his urging. The most impressive shot I ever saw was McGwire's blast off of Randy Johnson in 1997. We were in the left field upper deck and the ball sailed over our heads like a missile. I remember being stunned and then laughing when I saw my eight year-old boy wearing his A's hat and McGwire Tee-shirt dancing and pumping his little fists. Too bad that the PED revelations tainted it all. Oh well it still a great memory. By the way Johnson struck out 19, walked none, and lost on the way to setting a record for Ks in a game by a lefty.

The link below is to the video of that cartoonish blast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stUolWxG3wo&feature=kp

[cardswin53]

As a youngster, my dad took me to a game at old Busch Stadium (Sportsman's Park) and Hank Aaron hit a home run over the right field pavilion but was called out for stepping out of the batter's box to hit it. (He moved up to hit a slow curve ball from Curt Simmons). I believe it was in 1965.
Decades later at a charity autograph show in St. Louis I asked Mr. Aaron if my memory was correct. He said yes but still seemed upset at the call. Lou Brock overheard our conversation and started laughing. He chimed in that the catcher who called the umpire's attention to Aaron being out of the box was Bob Uecker!