Comments on: Well, Isn’t That Special?

By: Zachary

Zachary — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:04:21 +0000

Dear Lord, why did you have to make this post? I was so happy about baseball season ... now I can't stop thinking about that awful, awful, awful game. Grady bleepin' Little broke my heart into a million little pieces. The fact that Wake - one of the best guys ever to play in Beantown, and maybe the biggest reason that series made it to seven - gave up that home run to Aaron "Crappy Journeyman" Boone was such a cruel injustice ... I can't talk about this anymore.

By: Steve Lombardi

Steve Lombardi — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:57:09 +0000

Evan -

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN199910170.shtml

METS 15TH: Dunston singled to center; M. FRANCO BATTED FOR
DOTEL; Dunston stole second; M. Franco walked; Alfonzo out on a
sacrifice bunt (pitcher to second) [Dunston to third, M. Franco
to second]; Olerud was walked intentionally; CEDENO RAN FOR M.
FRANCO; Pratt walked [Dunston scored, Cedeno to third, Olerud to
second]; Ventura singled to center [Cedeno scored, Olerud to
third, Pratt to second]; Ventura's ball cleared the
right-centerfield fence, but he was tackled by celebrating
teammates before he reached second and was credited with a
'grand-slam single' instead;

By: dukeofflatbush

dukeofflatbush — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:47:30 +0000

I was fortunate enough to be at the 2001 D-back/Yanks Series for game 4 and 5, and watched game 7 live in Rockefeller Center on a Jumbo-tron with at least a thousand fans. It has to be ranked "best series" ever. 3 walk-off hits, 4 one run games, not to mention that including those 3 walk-offs, the Yankees tied both game 4 and 5 in the ninth inning to send both contests into extra innings. While those two homers to tie the game in the ninth are not on the list, I think any homer that sends a game into extra innings deserves the same reverence as an extra inning HR.
As a New Yorker, only 7 weeks removed from 9/11, I have to say those games carried so much more weight than your average WS game. I can still feel the stadium shaking and fondly remember Paul Oneil's final Yankee Stadium AB.
For many reasons; THE BEST SERIES EVER!!!

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:50:22 +0000

Funny that Todd Pratt is on the second list, but Robin Ventura is not.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:35:04 +0000

Duh, and I also didn't read the last line of your post.

By: Steve Lombardi

Steve Lombardi — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:32:19 +0000

Andy, if you click on the batter header in the chart, it groups them by batter.

By: tmckelv

tmckelv — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:29:59 +0000

Playoff Baseball returned with a bang in 1995 - Both ALDS, the ALCS and the NLCS each had at least 1 extra inning HR. The ALDS specifically - SEA/NYY had a 2 extra-ining HR game and CLE/BOS had a 3(!) extra-ining HR game.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:39:14 +0000

Can you group that list by players with most times achieving it? A quick scan shows Bernie and Javy Lopez with multiples.