IDF
01-06-2007, 04:12
What are the most memorable plays? I want you to answer both for what you think in MLB history and then give me a homer answer for your team's history.
In MLB history, it's tough. There's Merkle's Boner, Aaron's 715th, the shot heard round the world, Buckner, Ruth calling his shot, Pudge's 1975 homer, and Puckett's shot.
I'm going to go with Kirk Gibson though. That was such an amazing homerun. He had severe injuries in both of his knees and came in for his only AB in the entire World Series. It was against Eckersley, the best closer in the game. I don't think anyone expected that shot.
Here is Vin Scully's call:
All year long, they looked to him to light the fire. and all year long, he answered the demands, until he was physically unable to start tonight——with two bad legs: The bad left hamstring, and the swollen right knee. And, with two out, you talk about a roll of the dice... this is it. shaking his left leg, making it quiver, like a horse trying to get rid of a troublesome fly. The game right now is at the plate. High fly ball into right field, she i-i-i-is... gone!!! In a year that has been so improbable... the impossible has happened! And, now, the only question was, could he make it around the base paths unassisted?! They are going wild at Dodger Stadium——no one wants to leave!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Game_1_1988_World_Series_Score_Television_Graphic.JPG
For my totally biased White Sox moment, I am going with another World Series walk-off homer. In a moment almost as improbable as Gibson's HR, Scott Podsednik stepped up to the plate. He had over 500 ABs during the regular season and had not hit a single HR. The chances of a walkoff shot were slim to none.
He stepped up to the plate against Brad Lidge, the NL's premier closer. The Sox had blown a save in the top of the inning and erased the lead given by Konerko's grand slam in the 7th.
Here is John Rooney's call
The 2-1, a swing and a high fly ball! Deep right-centerfield! This is way back in the gap! IT'S A GONER!!! A White Sox winner! A winner on a Podsednik homerun and the Sox go up two games to nothing in the twenty-oh-five World Series!
On TV, Joe Buck and Tim McCarver had this call:
McCarver: Do you buy into the theory that people said in regard to Lidge that it would've been nice to get Lidge into the game in game 6 in St. Louis in the NLCS to get that taste out of his mouth of Pujol's homerun.
Buck: I don't think that taste is there.
McCarver: Podsednik hits one to deep right-centerfield. Back at the wall, this ball is gone! Podsednik goes deep. His second homerun of the postseason and the White Sox win it 7 to 6. Lidge has a new taste.
Buck: That taste might be there now.
http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper851/stills/435c740c776ca-24-1.jpg
In MLB history, it's tough. There's Merkle's Boner, Aaron's 715th, the shot heard round the world, Buckner, Ruth calling his shot, Pudge's 1975 homer, and Puckett's shot.
I'm going to go with Kirk Gibson though. That was such an amazing homerun. He had severe injuries in both of his knees and came in for his only AB in the entire World Series. It was against Eckersley, the best closer in the game. I don't think anyone expected that shot.
Here is Vin Scully's call:
All year long, they looked to him to light the fire. and all year long, he answered the demands, until he was physically unable to start tonight——with two bad legs: The bad left hamstring, and the swollen right knee. And, with two out, you talk about a roll of the dice... this is it. shaking his left leg, making it quiver, like a horse trying to get rid of a troublesome fly. The game right now is at the plate. High fly ball into right field, she i-i-i-is... gone!!! In a year that has been so improbable... the impossible has happened! And, now, the only question was, could he make it around the base paths unassisted?! They are going wild at Dodger Stadium——no one wants to leave!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/Game_1_1988_World_Series_Score_Television_Graphic.JPG
For my totally biased White Sox moment, I am going with another World Series walk-off homer. In a moment almost as improbable as Gibson's HR, Scott Podsednik stepped up to the plate. He had over 500 ABs during the regular season and had not hit a single HR. The chances of a walkoff shot were slim to none.
He stepped up to the plate against Brad Lidge, the NL's premier closer. The Sox had blown a save in the top of the inning and erased the lead given by Konerko's grand slam in the 7th.
Here is John Rooney's call
The 2-1, a swing and a high fly ball! Deep right-centerfield! This is way back in the gap! IT'S A GONER!!! A White Sox winner! A winner on a Podsednik homerun and the Sox go up two games to nothing in the twenty-oh-five World Series!
On TV, Joe Buck and Tim McCarver had this call:
McCarver: Do you buy into the theory that people said in regard to Lidge that it would've been nice to get Lidge into the game in game 6 in St. Louis in the NLCS to get that taste out of his mouth of Pujol's homerun.
Buck: I don't think that taste is there.
McCarver: Podsednik hits one to deep right-centerfield. Back at the wall, this ball is gone! Podsednik goes deep. His second homerun of the postseason and the White Sox win it 7 to 6. Lidge has a new taste.
Buck: That taste might be there now.
http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper851/stills/435c740c776ca-24-1.jpg