Its hard to single out one game....And what would be considered the best game , we have World Series games which are more important than an average game...Should best be considered , most memorable , most exciting , or a combination of all,lol...
I`ll give my top 5 games.....
1. World Series games 2 and 3 Baltimore vs Philadelphia , game 2 was in Baltimore game 3 was in Philly....Orioles won both games....neither game was that memorable, but very important...
2. Last weekend of the season 1982 Milwaukee @ Baltimore, Orioles needed to win all four games to win the division, they swept the friday night doubleheader, won again on saturday and LOST THE FINAL GAME on sunday...It was may be the most memorable weekend of baseball even though WE LOST....
3. Baltimore @ New York, Yankee Stadium friday night double header Sept 1983...Orioles swept both games, first game on a grand slam by Gary Roenicke...Yankee stadium was all I had heard and more and the Orioles won both games......
4. Pittsburgh @ Baltimore 1979 World Series Game 6 , The game itself was not memorable but before the game I got Lee May`s bat and three balls , one of the balls was an official 1979 World Series Ball that I still have...Also got autographs of Brooks and Frank Robinson and Dave Parker and Willie Stargell on another ball that I still have....
5. Detroit @ Baltimore late june 1979...This game was known as the birth of Orioles Magic, if your not from Baltimore you might not understand it,lol, but the Orioles came back in the ninth on a Doug Decinces walk off homer, 1979 was the year that turned Baltimore into a baseball town , the very next night Eddie Murray beat Detriot again with a ninth inning walk off homerun...The season became legend in Baltimore as the Orioles won many games in dramatic fashion.....
As you can see all my great memories were when I was a kid...
I`ll give my top 5 games.....
1. World Series games 2 and 3 Baltimore vs Philadelphia , game 2 was in Baltimore game 3 was in Philly....Orioles won both games....neither game was that memorable, but very important...
2. Last weekend of the season 1982 Milwaukee @ Baltimore, Orioles needed to win all four games to win the division, they swept the friday night doubleheader, won again on saturday and LOST THE FINAL GAME on sunday...It was may be the most memorable weekend of baseball even though WE LOST....
3. Baltimore @ New York, Yankee Stadium friday night double header Sept 1983...Orioles swept both games, first game on a grand slam by Gary Roenicke...Yankee stadium was all I had heard and more and the Orioles won both games......
4. Pittsburgh @ Baltimore 1979 World Series Game 6 , The game itself was not memorable but before the game I got Lee May`s bat and three balls , one of the balls was an official 1979 World Series Ball that I still have...Also got autographs of Brooks and Frank Robinson and Dave Parker and Willie Stargell on another ball that I still have....
5. Detroit @ Baltimore late june 1979...This game was known as the birth of Orioles Magic, if your not from Baltimore you might not understand it,lol, but the Orioles came back in the ninth on a Doug Decinces walk off homer, 1979 was the year that turned Baltimore into a baseball town , the very next night Eddie Murray beat Detriot again with a ninth inning walk off homerun...The season became legend in Baltimore as the Orioles won many games in dramatic fashion.....
As you can see all my great memories were when I was a kid...
first off - MadCapper - i have a problem with your avatar. don't being dissing "my" girl that way. look to see where i am "from" and you will see why i said what said.
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High School: Fountain Valley vs. Lakewood for the CIF Championship (I sense Railbird might have been at this one) played at Blair Field in Long Beach. We (FV) were the #1 rated team in the area - and something like #2 in the nation. The game was a real low scoring affair throughout. We managed to get a few runs and were up 3-2 heading into the 7th (and last) inning. All game long the tension was unbelieveable. Lakewood gets a runner on 2nd (the TYING RUN) with 2 outs in the 7th inning. The batter singles to center. The runner is coming home and get thrown out to end the game - and give FVHS the title. As soon as the ump punched him out we stormed the field to celebrate.
College: 2001 Super Regionals, Fullerton hosting Miss State: This was the first-time EVER we had hosted a Super Regional - despite the fact we had been to Omaha umpteen times. The first game was a Friday Night and Goodwin Field (our home park) was alive. I have NEVER seen a crowd that juiced for a CSUF game. The place was sold out and standing room only. Some pizza joint passed out towels and before, during and after the game, we waved them whenever we had a chance. It was a real goose-bump experience. We ended up winning the game on Friday and Saturday Night the place was just as electric. We were up by about 5 going into the 9th inning. When our closer, Chad Cordero (the one who blew the Stanford game that would have sent us to play Rice in the recent CWS) came on the close out the game and send us to Omaha, the place was louder than I have ever heard it. On every strike we were roaring and when he struck out the final hitter to send us to Omaha, the place erupted because it was the first-time ever we had seen our school go to Omaha by winning a home game.
Pro: It was a Friday Night in either June or July 1991. I worked at ESPN but somehow had the night off (that almost NEVER happens at ESPN - a Fridat Night off). I drove to Fenway to see the Red Sox play the Angels. Fenway was sold out but I managed to get Standing "seats" to see Clemens face Jim Abbott. It was an amazing pitching matchup because both were on their game that night. The final score was something like 3-1. To see Clemens in his prime was amazing and Abbott was no slouch, either. This was also my first time @ Fenway - so that made it even better.
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High School: Fountain Valley vs. Lakewood for the CIF Championship (I sense Railbird might have been at this one) played at Blair Field in Long Beach. We (FV) were the #1 rated team in the area - and something like #2 in the nation. The game was a real low scoring affair throughout. We managed to get a few runs and were up 3-2 heading into the 7th (and last) inning. All game long the tension was unbelieveable. Lakewood gets a runner on 2nd (the TYING RUN) with 2 outs in the 7th inning. The batter singles to center. The runner is coming home and get thrown out to end the game - and give FVHS the title. As soon as the ump punched him out we stormed the field to celebrate.
College: 2001 Super Regionals, Fullerton hosting Miss State: This was the first-time EVER we had hosted a Super Regional - despite the fact we had been to Omaha umpteen times. The first game was a Friday Night and Goodwin Field (our home park) was alive. I have NEVER seen a crowd that juiced for a CSUF game. The place was sold out and standing room only. Some pizza joint passed out towels and before, during and after the game, we waved them whenever we had a chance. It was a real goose-bump experience. We ended up winning the game on Friday and Saturday Night the place was just as electric. We were up by about 5 going into the 9th inning. When our closer, Chad Cordero (the one who blew the Stanford game that would have sent us to play Rice in the recent CWS) came on the close out the game and send us to Omaha, the place was louder than I have ever heard it. On every strike we were roaring and when he struck out the final hitter to send us to Omaha, the place erupted because it was the first-time ever we had seen our school go to Omaha by winning a home game.
Pro: It was a Friday Night in either June or July 1991. I worked at ESPN but somehow had the night off (that almost NEVER happens at ESPN - a Fridat Night off). I drove to Fenway to see the Red Sox play the Angels. Fenway was sold out but I managed to get Standing "seats" to see Clemens face Jim Abbott. It was an amazing pitching matchup because both were on their game that night. The final score was something like 3-1. To see Clemens in his prime was amazing and Abbott was no slouch, either. This was also my first time @ Fenway - so that made it even better.
The best game I ever attended was 1996 game 6 World Series at Yankee Stadium. Yankees win 3-2 to capture their first WS in 18 years after trailing the Braves in the series 2-0 heading into Atlanta. Key vs Maddux....couldn't ask for more than that!
I will never forget Charlie Hayes catching that ball near the dugout.
-MC
I will never forget Charlie Hayes catching that ball near the dugout.
-MC
I can`t talk anymore as the Yankees have destroyed the Orioles in the last 6 years...What was once a dead even rivalry especially late 70`s early 80`s...
Orioles should turn in their name, these are not our father`s Orioles
Can't remember the year, maybe 84 or 85 a really hot Sunday afternoon with pennant race implications at Dodger Stadium. Dodgers vs. Braves. That was the age of Dale Murphy. Murphy hit a homer in the second to go up 2-0. He took a homer away from I think Mike Marshall and it was looking bleak for the home team as it was 5-1 going to the 8th. The Dodgers scored 2 in the inning and the stadium starts waking up. As most are aware Dodger Stadium is a masoleum when the home team isn't winning and in most cases it would have started emptying out long ago but on this day almost everyone stays because its such a big game back before the Wildcard. In the ninth with one out Bob Horner makes an error and the place starts getting into, everyone is stomping their feet and yelling...so unlike LA! Can't remember who lines a single to center and Brett Butler overruns it and a run scores and the tying run is on. In comes Gene Garber and the place hushes, he owned the Dodgers over the previous two years. Pedro Guerrero fouls off 3 pitches barely. The place is electric, I am on the top level and the building is shaking, who ever could imagine that place being that way? The next pitch and Pedro smacks it deep to right. Murphy goes back and leaps...but misses it by about 6 inches and its gone. ABSOLUTE PANDEMONIUM. The stadium is in delirium, Guerrero comes out for like 3 curtain calls and nobody is leaving the joint. I hate the Dodgers so this feels like the end of the world, but my uncle is just going crazy, never seen him get into a game as much as that one. I forgot a lot of the details but I will never forget the vibration of the stadium as that ball made it over Murphy's glove, it was like a college crowd for that one day. I don't think the place got that way again until Gibson hit that homer in the World Series and who knows if it ever will be like that again.
My buddies High School State playoffs in Lake Wales, Florida when I rode over with he, who later pitched at Florida State, and Tom "Flash" Gordon, whom we've all heard of, in his jeep.
Never been to a pro baseball game, actually.
Ok...here we go...I'll start with a few of the worst games i've been to.
Don't even remember who they played..but i'm at a whitesox game.....talk about boring...game is 0-0 until the 13th inning! Then the whitesox win....are you ready...on 4 consecutive walks...LMAO.
back with more in a bit
wiz
Don't even remember who they played..but i'm at a whitesox game.....talk about boring...game is 0-0 until the 13th inning! Then the whitesox win....are you ready...on 4 consecutive walks...LMAO.
back with more in a bit
wiz
