Greatest World Series Walk-Off Home Runs
Posted by: Richie Rich in Milestone Home Runs, YouTube
As kids playing baseball in yard with our Dad (or Mom), daydreaming on the Little League bench, or playing with friends in the vacant lot down at the end of the block … we all dreamed of experiencing Baseball’s ultimate glory on the grandest of all stages …
Hitting a Game-Winning Home Run in the World Series. If it was a Walk-Off Home Run … that was even better. Even though the term walk-off wasn’t around when I was a kid.
Home Run Derby presents the Greatest Walk-Off Home Runs in World Series History. Courtesy of YouTube. In no particular order …
2005 World Series – Game Two.
Houston Astros at Chicago White Sox
Lidge blows it again
Leadoff man Scott Podsednik hit exactly zero Home Runs in the 2005 regular season for the White Sox. So after the Astros tied the game in the top of the ninth, Scotty Pods provided the most unlikely Walk-Off Homer in World Series history.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8646676126846206590
1960 World Series – Game Seven
New York Yankees at Pittsburgh Pirates
Bill Mazeroski does in the Yanks
It can’t get much bigger than beating the New York freaking Yankees in the bottom of the Ninth freaking Inning in Game freaking Seven of the World freaking Series, can it?
1991 World Series – Game Six
Atlanta Braves at Minnesota Twins.
“and we’ll see you tomorrow night”
The Braves led the Twins three games to two and Game Six was into extra innings tied 3-3. In the bottom of the eleventh inning, Braves hurler Charlie Liebrandt lofted a 2-1 changeup to Twins hero Kirby Puckett … sorry but the video is gone
1975 World Series – Game Six
Cincinnati Reds at Boston Red Sox
Stay Fair … Stay Fair …
Carlton Fisk leads off the Bottom of the 12th inning at Fenway Park with the Sawx trying to stay alive in the Series. Fisk hits a deep drive to left field which needs a little encouragement to stay fair and clear the Green Monster. It hit the foul pole. Alas, Cincy won Game Seven.
1993 World Series – Game Six
Philadelphia Phillies at Toronto Blue Jays
Joe Carter runs the bases like a kid
It’s almost the situation my friends and I would always draw up in the vacant lot. Bottom of the ninth. Down by a run. Men on base. One Out. 0-2 Count. Ground ball loses the game. Home Run wins the Series.
That one is my personal favorite, just ahead of the next one on the list. And not just because I love the Blue Jays. But because that’s how I would have run the bases if I had ever hit a Home Run at that vacant lot down the block growing up.
1988 World Series - Game One
Oakland A’s at LA Dodgers
“I don’t belive what I just saw.”
Dodgers hero Kirk Gibson was hurting and could barely stand, let alone walk or run. But he somehow found a way to make it to the plate and hit what was quite possibly the most made for TV Home Run in World Series History. Gibson in his only At-Bat in the Series … down 4-3, a man on base with two outs and a full count vs Baseball’s dominant closer …
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3181803614159060681
Dennis Eckersley and Jack Buck still can’t believe what they just saw.
The greatest World Series Home Run … ever.
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June 21st, 2007 at 3:13 pm
too bad you didnt include the LCS’s on the list…..
Aaron bleeping Boone baby!!!
I can remember, to this day, everything about Kirk Gibson’s home run. Not just the greatest WS home run ever, but in my opinion, the greatest home run ever…
Good list though
June 21st, 2007 at 4:11 pm
1960 has to rank first (Game Seven, Yanks, c’mon), but I have a soft spot for the Gibson homer.
I seem to recall the the broadcast guys quickly digging up clips from “The Natural” (it had been only four years since the movie) to edit into the replays for the post-game show. Awesome, and I didn’t particularly care about either team.
Of course, I could have lived without Gibson’s deodorant endorsements afterwards.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:31 pm
As a Yankee fan, I have my reasons for not liking 1960.
Of course, as a kid who was still 20 years away from being born, I doubt it would’ve bothered me.
June 21st, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Family members of mine who knew nothing about baseball and never cared before or since sat through the last, gripping game in ‘93– especially the last few innings– knowing that a loss would mean Game 7 and the possibility that the run might completely fall apart. When Carter’s home run went out it was like nothing else I had experienced before or since (save for Dennis Bergkamp’s goal against Argentina at France 98). Pretty much indescribable. . . of course, I had just turned 13, which–even though there isn’t a bad age to see your team do something like that, there maybe isn’t a better one.
I could watch that clip all day. Great post. . .
June 21st, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Instead of freaking can’t we just use f*cking. Given all the T&A, this isn’t a family site Richie. And as much as I like Pods and the improbability of his walk off, Gibson’s is still the greatest.
June 22nd, 2007 at 12:08 am
Best part of the Joe Carter HR was lenny “nails” dykstra saying to mitch “wild thing” williams “I guess we’re not going to game seven” after Carter rounded the bases.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:53 am
Would consider 1964 World Series (Game 3 I believe). Bottom of 9th, score tied at 1. Cardinals had tied game on an outfiled error made made by Mickey Mantle, no longer able to play center field due to his bad legs.
Barney Shultz came in to pitch (knuckeballer) and Mantle lead off the bottom of the 9th. One pitch and the Mick put it into the 3rd deck in right field. He literally hobbled around the bases, virtually carrying the 3rd base coach the last 90 feet. The homer not only won the game (St. Louis won the series), but it broke Babe Ruth’s World Series home run record.