And then Rangers closer Neftali Feliz got two strikes on him. To be sure, the home definitely happened. And here he was going to work on the second half of the Yankees order. The New York Yankees of the middle of the 20th century were, without question, the most powerful dynasty the sport has ever seen. In some ways that’s a subjective question. It didn’t even give Leyritz’s team the lead. It turns out he was under the stands in the Dodger Stadium batting cage trying to figure out a way to effectively swing despite being almost unable to walk. That’s actually a question that has a lot of answers. The image of that wave — captured by the then-novel, now-standard practice of keeping a camera focused on the batter for his reaction — was instantly iconic. The most memorable contest was probably Game 5. Both teams, the Braves and Twins, went from worst to first in their respective divisions to win pennants. Nice touch. A Game 7 walkoff. Gibson’s teammates stormed the field. Turley didn’t last long, getting yanked by Stengel after giving up an early two-run homer. Put those two together and you have the makings of a list of the biggest World Series home runs in America’s past time. Nearly half a century later, Reggie Jackson hit three home runs for the Yankees in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series against the LA Dodgers, which clinched the title for New York. The home run. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Flipboard (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Watch one of these this Friday at 7 pm ET on NBCSN, Watch this game at 7 pm ET on Friday on NBCSN. Babe Ruth was the first to do it in Game 4 of the 1926 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, a series the Yankees lost, and also pulled it off in the Game 4 clincher over the Redbirds in 1928. At least in my view. In 1960, he put up a batting line of .273/.320/.392 (94 OPS+) with 11 homers. No one scored in the tenth or eleventh innings either, and Boston pitcher Rick Wise held the Big Red Machine scoreless in the top of the 12th. Here, Puckett tripled in the game’s first run in the first inning and then scored. He was named World Series MVP for the second time in his career, matching his performance in the 1973 World Series with the Oakland Athletics. On deck was Dave Anderson, apparently poised to pinch-hit in the pitcher’s slot. World Series, Game 3, 4th inning: 1: Dutch Ruether: Bucky Walters: October 7, … Then, a couple foul balls later, Wohlers threw another slider. And what’s not to love? Like the Red Sox, they were playing at home with their backs up against the wall. St. Louis was blanked in the bottom half and Texas was blanked in the eighth to keep the margin at three. Puckett later helped the Twins keep their lead with an amazing leaping catch at the fence in left-center to rob Braves outfielder Ron Gant of an extra-base hit. It did, however, completely take the wind out of the sails of the opposition and helped breathe life into a new New York Yankees dynasty. Most home runs, series?5 (6 games) Reggie Jackson, New York A.L., 1977; 4 (4 games) Lou Gehrig, New York A.L., 1928; 4 (6 games) Willie Aikens, Kansas City A.L., 1980; 4 (7 games) Babe Ruth, New York A.L., 1926; Duke Snider, Brooklyn N.L., 1952, 1955; Hank Bauer, New York A.L., 1958; Gene Tenace, Oakland A.L., 1972; 4 Barry Bonds, San Francisco N.L., 2002. The only thing better than a walkoff homer to force a Game 7 is a walkoff homer that wins the whole dang thing. The Yankees would win Game 4 in 10 innings. RELATED: 10 MLB Records That Will Never Be Broken. There have only been two of those in baseball history. Gibson performed more heroics in the Dodgers’ tough-fought NLCS matchup with the mighty New York Mets, making a tough catch on wet grass in Game three and hitting big home runes Games four and five. Over time most baseball fans have come to believe that Ruth did, in fact, call his shot. MORE: Watch this game at 7 pm ET on Friday on NBCSN. like October 27, 2015 8:27 pm. 1910?11, 13?14; Chicago A.L., 1917, 1919. Babe Ruth • 1928 WS. The Braves tied the game in the fifth, but Puckett put the Twins ahead again with a sacrifice fly in the bottom half. In the five games, he hit .706 (12-for-17) with a record seven home runs and 15 RBI, as he was a one-man wrecking crew on one of the most dominant teams in the history of the tournament. The Yankees blew the Pirates out in their three victories, 16-3 (Game 2), 10-0 (Game 3), and 12-0 (Game 6). October.”. Jackson became the first player to hit five home runs in a single World Series. As the saying goes, when the legend becomes fact, print the legend, so consider me in the “Ruth called his shot” camp. Springer's Game 7 shot closed the door on a World Series to forget for Darvish. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! The Dodgers won the game, 5–4. A close third: the two red lights just above the right field pavilion as the ball entered the stands. Fittingly, two of them are Phillies. Yankees vs Washington. Indeed, if he didn’t hit it, the Red Sox may not have survived to play another day. Fun fact: Carlton hit just 13 homers in a little more than 1,700 at … Game 5, Yuli Gurriel three-run shot to tie 4-4 in the fourth. Which is where it stood as the bottom of the ninth began. Those are brake lights from a car leaving the Dodger Stadium parking lot, owned by someone who thought it’d be better to beat the traffic than to see how Game One turned out. Here’s a look at the rest of the top 10. Bob Turley of the Yankees and Vern Law of the Pirates got the ball as the Game 7 starters. Jack Buck’s call — “We will see you tomorrow night” — was an instant classic. Arizona had more fight than the Braves had five years before, however, dominating New York in a blowout Game 6 and then winning Game 7 in walkoff fashion to take the Series. Steve Carlton Game: 1978 NLCS Game 3 off Don Sutton. Jim Leyritz, the Yankees backup catcher and occasional third baseman, then came to bat with runners on the corners and one down. On a 2-1 pitch, Puckett gave his team the lead for a third and final time with a walkoff homer, sending the Series to what would be an even more historic Game 7. Williams wasn’t up to the task. The … In the World Series, Jackson hit five home runs in the final three games – driving in eight runs and finishing with a record 25 total bases. It didn’t end a game. That last homer put the Yankees up 8-3, gave them the championship an inning later and gave Reggie the nickname “Mr. Terry made a mistake. The Atlanta Braves were the defending World Series champions. RELATED: Which six pitchers threw World Series one-hitters? Their staying alive until the big home run, however, was WAY more dramatic than even Bernie Carbo’s three-run shot back in 1975. The Rangers didn’t score in the top half. Would it be fair or foul? A Game 7 walkoff made all the better as it came in a true David vs. Goliath moment. It was a see-saw game, but it looked as though the Rangers finally had things in hand when they scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning to make it 7–4 Texas. He then swung and dribbled one foul down the line, looking weak as could be in doing so. Share this article share tweet text email link Ted Berg. The most recent player to accomplish the historic feat was Pablo Sandoval, who went yard in his first three plate appearances for the San Francisco Giants in Game 1 of the 2012 World Series against the Detroit Tigers. Houston and Los Angeles combined for seven home runs, an all-time World Series record, and … Scully’s call as Gibson pumped his fists while hobbling around second base and headed for third — “In a year that has been so improbable, the IMPOSSIBLE has happened!” — has become almost as famous as the home run itself. Joe Carter’s was number two and an easy call this high on the list of biggest World Series home runs. The first six games of the Series were, for lack of a better term, strange. Carter’s Blue Jays were the defending World Series champs and led the series three games to two. And yet, his most famous homer remains one that came in a series his team lost. If the Jays wanted to repeat as champions they’d have two bites at the apple. As the New York Yankees have made the most appearances in the World Series, it shouldn’t be a surprise that one of their all-time greats holds the top spot on the Fall Classic’s all-time home run list. Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda had no intention of letting Anderson hit, however. One of those game-tying hits was a homer from Scott Brosius that often makes these sorts of lists, but I’m partial to Jeter’s Game 4 dinger because it was a walkoff winner. Of course it was Ryan Zimmerman who hit the first World Series home run in Washington Nationals history. That may not seem like great offense by today’s standards — and that may have more or less represented Mazeroski’s peak in his 17-year career — but it was pretty respectable at a time when middle infielders were not expected to contribute much on offense. Then, with one on and two out in the bottom of the ninth, Tino Martinez crushed a Byung-Hyun Kim pitch into the right-center seats in Yankee Stadium, tying the game (that homer sometimes makes these lists too). Jackson hit three homers in Game 6 of the 1977 Series, which clinched the Yankees’ first World Series win since 1962, so pick your favorite. Reds pitcher Pat Darcy took the mound for Cincinnati in the bottom of the 12th as the game passed the then-rarely-reached four-hour mark. On TV, Fox broadcaster Tim McCarver wondered why Wohlers was throwing those sliders anyway given how overmatched Leyritz was by the young closer’s heat. I’m guessing that whoever that was had some regrets. Root had already given up a three-run homer to Ruth in the first inning. Gibson took a pitch to make the count 1-2, fouled another one off, and took another one outside to even the count. Even better: Freese played both the Carbo and Fisk roles in this one. The Astros set a World Series record with 15 home runs as a team. Harvey Haddix wasn’t much help in relief, giving up an RBI single to Mantle and an RBI groundout to Berra to tie the game at nine. Eckersley got two outs and then, seemingly pitching a little too carefully, walked Dodgers outfielder Mike Davis, who was batting in the eighth spot. That send the game into extra innings. As the New York Yankees have made the most... 3 players are tied for the most home runs in a single Fall Classic. Randy Arozarena broke one MLB record during Game 4 of the World Series on Saturday night and tied another. The Pirates had won Games 1, 4, and 5 by margins of two runs, one run, and three runs, respectively. The Babe broke his own single … Mickey Mantle holds the all-time lead with 18 World Series home runs. Mickey Mantle has hit the most all-time home runs in the World Series. Root denied this, saying afterwards that Ruth was holding up two fingers to the crowd and the Cubs, who were cheering in anticipation of a strikeout, in order to show that he had only two strikes on him and still had one left. If the Phillies won this one, on to Game 7 it would go. Most home runs?18, Mickey Mantle, New York A.L., 1951?53, 1955?58, 1960?64. Home Run Records by AgE Major League Baseball Age-Specific Home Run Records. With that in mind, let’s take a look at some of the most notable home runs by a pitcher in baseball’s postseason. The Dodgers signed Gibson the previous offseason and he immediately became the team’s leader, its heart, and its soul. Mostly because it worked: The walkoff homer kept the Red Sox alive and forced a Game 7. The World Series. Babe Ruth. Like the Red Sox, David Freese’s Cardinals were down three games to two entering Game 6. It surpassed Joe Adcock 's mark of 18, which also came from a four-homer game. In Game 5, Andy Pettitte outdueled John Smoltz for a 1-0 win. Oct. 26, 1993 – SkyDome (Toronto, Ontario) Carter came to the plate … This is what I’m getting at here: “big” in the broad sense of the term. No. After the game and in subsequent retellings of the tale, Gibson would recall that just before the World Series, Dodger scout Mel Didier said that, when there was a 3–2 count against a left-handed hitter, Eckersley would, 100% of the time, throw a backdoor slider. As soon as Davis walked, Lasorda called him back and sent Gibson to the plate. But it matched it in drama and, actually, exceeded it in terms of leverage. He walked leadoff hitter Rickey Henderson, induced a fly ball out from Devon White, and then gave up a single to Paul Molitor to put two men on base. An echo of it will appear later in this countdown of biggest World Series home runs. But rather than listen to McCarver, let’s listen to Blue Jays radio announcer Tom Cheek’s famous “Touch ’em all, Joe!” call: What’s better than a Game 6 walkoff? As he stepped to the plate again the Cubs’ bench was jeering him pretty heavily. Players might be trying to hit them a little too much these days with the launch angle and such but it’s always exciting watching a ball leave the yard. .625. Philly clawed back in the seventh, however, with a three-run homer from Len Dykstra, a Dave Hollins’s RBI single to tie the game, and a Pete Incaviglia sacrifice fly to put the Phillies up 6–5. Here’s the list of home runs hit by LA that year. Game Four, however, started out horribly for the Bombers, with the Braves holding a 6-0 lead after five innings. Alcides Escobar hits leadoff inside-the-park home run in World Series Game 1. Patsy Dougherty, Red Sox - 1903 World Series, Game 2. The Pirates would lead 4-0 after two innings, in fact. Maybe the best defensive second baseman in the game. There’s no getting around it. Indeed, he had allowed only two hits while striking out 11. Unlike Gibson’s homer, Fisk’s World Series home run did not come in service of a World Series victory. Like the Red Sox, they forced extra innings. 17 PA. In the top of the tenth, Texas slugger Josh Hamilton put the Rangers up again with a two-run home run. Naturally, that feeling gets amplified in the World Series. He was MVP of the 2004 NLCS (four homers) and is one of only 10 players to go deep three times in a postseason game -- one of four to do it in the World Series (2011, Game 3). In just 15 of them has there been a walkoff home run. On to the eleventh. It all seemed inevitable, however, after Leyrtiz’s big blast in Game 4. It’s only fitting that in a year that saw Major League Baseball set … Entering Game 6 the Braves led 3-2, with three of those five games decided in one of the team’s final at-bats. At least in my book. The Yankees were making their first Fall Classic appearance since 1981. Just for the record I know this video is bad. David Freese, 2011 World Series. The longest home run in College World Series history at TD Ameritrade Park unofficially belongs to former Florida Gator Pete Alonso and Auburn's Eduoard … Gibson, however, injured his left hamstring while stealing second base in Game five and hurt his right knee while sliding into second base in Game seven. The game entered the ninth with Pittsburgh leading 9-7. Carlton's three-run home run at Dodger Stadium gave the Phillies a 4-0 lead and it helped them capture their only win of the four-game series. And yet, somehow, we've already got a multi-home run game in the first World Series in baseball history. With the count two balls and two strikes, Ruth, according to many, pointed toward center field. Joe Carter, Toronto Blue Jays. The Yankees would win Game 5 as well, taking a 3-2 lead in the Series and causing many to think that this was 1996 all over again. RELATED: The Little-Known Story of How Babe Ruth Almost Went to the Cincinnati Reds. So who has the most home runs in World Series history? Davis stole second with the next pitch, also a ball to bring the count full. Baseball’s biggest hit? Minnesota had the most long balls in … Ruth yelled and gestured back. The question is whether Ruth “called his shot” with that gesture beforehand or whether the pointing was directed more at Root or at nothing in particular and was just part of his general agitation. But with two strikes on a clearly limited hitter and the best relief pitcher in baseball on the mound, A’s manager Tony La Russa chose to have Eckersley deliver the payoff pitch. With his physical skills limited, Gibson relied completely on that advice and looked for the backdoor slider from Eck. The Braves tied it again in the seventh, and the game went to extra innings. This is the only homer on the biggest World Series home runs list that is at least partially mythical. The Tampa Bay Rays outfielder hit … But no matter the circumstance, they all count the same. Sure, you probably have a good idea of some of the indisputably biggest dingers in Fall Classic history — the photo on this article is a good hint — but others might be closer calls. Fisk led off the inning. Mazeroski made him pay: The Pirates won the game 10–9 and stood as World Series champions despite being outscored in the Series. Before I mentioned that one, would you have remembered it? Early on it looked like they’d only need the one bite, as they took a 3-0 lead in the first and then maintained a 5-1 lead into the seventh. But we’ll leave that for a list about pitching. Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a record book full of baseball milestones for home runs and ages at which they were hit — including most after forty, before twenty and other miscellaneous records. October” himself, Reggie Jackson, hit five in the 1977 World Series, which leads us right into the single-game record. The Reds took a 6-3 lead into the bottom of the eighth, but the Red Sox rallied, with the rally topped off by a game-tying three-run homer off the bat of former Red Bernie Carbo. Mazeroski was considered by everyone to be a slick-fielder. Are we talking about a single game, a single series, or the all-time record? In the team’s 161 regular-season games, the Dodgers hit just 99 balls out of the yard, good for 22nd out of 26 teams. 15 PA. 2. Indeed, for much of the game he was nowhere to be found. © Copyright 2021 Endgame360 Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Red Sox would go on to lose that Game 7, unfortunately, which is the only reason why Fisk’s homer — while one of the most dramatic moments in baseball history — does not crack the top 3 of the biggest World Series home runs. He was so hobbled that he was doubtful to even play in the World Series against the heavily-favored Oakland A’s. The following players have hit two home runs in a single World Series game: Chase Utley, Philadelphia, Nov. 2, 2009 His 2-run shot in the 4th that extended the Astros’ lead to 4-0 tied him with Derek Jeter for most home runs in the World Series by a shortstop in MLB history. I suspect more people have forgotten it than recalled it. Indeed, he probably would not have made the Hall of Fame if not for that homer. One wonders, though, if they would have actually fired Stengel had they won the Series. Pujols, tied as the active postseason home run leader with George Springer, is a two-time World Series champion. In the bottom of the eighth, however, Allen Craig homered for the Cards to make it a two-run game. A couple of years before he had socked 19 homers. Ralph Terry, who had finally put out the fire in the eighth inning was on the hill for the Yankees. The Arizona Diamondbacks had taken a 3-1 lead in the top of the eighth thanks to an Erubial Durazo double and then an RBI groundout from Matt Williams. What do you think? The Little-Known Story of How Babe Ruth Almost Went to the Cincinnati Reds, Reggie Jackson: 10 HR-116 plate appearances, Frank Robinson: 8 HR-106 plate appearances. That was the 2005 NLCS, when the … It’s possible that, if Gibson were healthy, the A’s would choose to walk him to the now-empty first base, taking the bat out of his hands. There were many better hitters in that Pirates lineup — Mazeroski was batting eighth — but he could make you pay if you made a mistake. The Pirates had won 95 games in 1960 and were a very talented bunch, but they were the clear underdogs. No one scored in the ninth and it went to extras. The three blasts came off of three consecutive pitches from three different pitchers: Burt Hooten, Elias Sosa, and Charlie Hough. November” and a spot on the biggest World Series home runs list. In fact, more than half of the top 10 are players that donned the famous pinstripes. Which World Series homers are the biggest? In 2009, Chase Utley hit five home runs for the Philadelphia Phillies in a losing effort to the New York Yankees. Wohlers, who closed out the 1995 World Series, was 39-for-44 in save chances during the regular season and had not allowed a run in seven and a third postseason innings in 1996. Not only did Jackson hit his homers in three consecutive at-bats, he did it on three consecutive pitches. Reliever Mark Wohlers took the mound for the Braves. David Ortiz • 2013 WS. Made for an easy call as one of the biggest World Series home runs. Earlier in this countdown Tim McCarver got props for noting that Mark Wohlers should not have been throwing sliders to Jim Leyritz, but here McCarver thought that Carter looked uncomfortable at the plate. For Bill Mazeroski, his Series-clinching home run stood as the unquestionable highlight of what would be a Hall of Fame career. It is by no means a good video, but I'm gonna leave it up anyway because fuck it why not. The 1991 World Series is, for my money, the greatest of my lifetime. In the bottom half, again on the brink of elimination, the Cards rallied again, with Ryan Theriot grounding out to score one run and Lance Berkman singling in the tying run, again, when St. Louis was down to its last strike. Lasorda’s gambit looked like it had no chance of paying off. With two outs in the bottom of the 10th, Jeter came to the plate and, with Kim still pitching for the Snakes, hit a low liner down the right-field line that barely cleared the wall, giving the Yankees the extra-inning victory and evening up the Series at two games a piece. Mark Whiten tied Jim Bottomley for the most runs batted in in a single game with 12 in his four-homer game. It also stands apart from the biggest World Series home runs in history. Some may have been, by any number of advanced metrics such as Win Probability Added, been more important than others. This is a home run everyone remembers, but tends not to make the “biggest home run” lists. Thanks to a Jose Canseco grand slam early in the game, Oakland took a one-run lead into the bottom of the ninth and sent closer Dennis Eckersley — who saved 45 games that season — to the mound to close it out. The loss would cause Mickey Mantle, as he later recalled in Ken Burns’ “Baseball” documentary, to cry actual tears. Back in New York the Yankees won Game 6 by beating Greg Maddux and hoisted their first World Series trophy since 1978. A critical Game 5 looked to be slipping out … Fisk did his part by waving at the ball as he watched it fly through the night sky, willing it to stay fair. With that in mind, let’s count down the biggest World Series home runs of all time. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Most stolen bases?14, Eddie Collins, Philadelphia A.L. Mariano Duncan then grounded to short for what should’ve been a double play, but Braves shortstop Rafael Belliard bobbled it and could only get the force at second. And a great addition to the biggest World Series home runs. The Yankees scored three in the sixth, but entered the eighth still down by three. And speaking of the Yankees, “Mr. Since we’re here, let’s take a look at all three. 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