Favorite baseball moment
 

I remember the 1992 NLCS game between the Braves and the Pirates like it was yesterday.

Video Link To The Play

Melt down of Cards (spanning the rest of game 6 and all of game 7) after Denkinger's blown call.

Adam Wainwright freezing Carlos Beltran in game 7 of the 2006 NLCS with an 0-2 curveball sent by God.

Ted Williams couldn't have hit that pitch with a tennis racket.

I was there on June 2, 1999 when Ken Harvey went 3-4 and drove in 5 in a 12-7 loss.

It was ****ing nails. It was a Tuesday, and, luckily, I didn't spill anything on my Jose Offerman t-shirt that I received for being one of only 7,000 in attendance.

Ken harvey getting drilled in the back with a throw from the outfield, Ken harvey punching grimsley in the face when trying to throw home, Ken harvey falling over the tarp.

Steve Finley's grand slam that give the Dodgers the division crown over the gnats.

I was at George Brett's final game. It was awesome, something I will never forget. He had a nice game, and rode around the field and then kissed the plate. Brett was Royals' baseball.

I don't remember the Grimsley one. The other two are permanently etched in my memory.

And that worthless **** was our lone all-star one year.

then he went on the jumbotron to shit his pants for the fans

he Royals' 5-3 loss to Boston on Sunday was painful not because it was the deciding game in a three-game series with an AL East pennant contender, or because it kept the Royals in double digits in the games-behind column of the AL Central standings.
Related Results

* Cloud Computing Also Hit by IT-Spending Cutbacks
* Short Term Energy Monitoring: A Road To Long Term Energy Savings?
* NCS-Omnicare: The New Landscape For M&A
* Ohio's Health House Provides Asthma-Free Indoor Living
* Agistix's On-Demand Solution Gives Maxim Centralized Logistics Control

No, the real pain of Kansas City's setback was seen on the faces of top hitter Ken Harvey and setup man Jason Grimsley as they tried to rise from the field following their bizarre sixth-inning collision near first base.

"We lose our top hitter and our best reliever on one play," said catcher Kelly Stinnett, who was left waiting at the plate for a throw that never came. "That's tough to recover from."

In a play that was a strange mix between Keystone Kops and a Vince McMahon production, Harvey and Grimsley lost a chance for a possible inning-ending double play that might have preserved a 3-1 Royals' lead.

With the bases loaded and one out, Harvey was charging Cesar Crespo's slow bouncer to first with the idea of throwing home. Reliever Grimsley was charging to first with the idea of taking a possible double-play relay from Stinnett.

They never saw each other. Not even when Harvey's throwing arm hit Grimsley flush on the jaw. Both went down for the 10-count, and Boston went on to post a five-run inning.

It was, Royals manager Tony Pena said, one of the strangest plays he'd ever seen.

"But I've seen so many strange things this year, I don't know what else we'll see," he said.

The good news for the Royals is that nothing strange showed up when Grimsley and Harvey were taken to St. Luke's Hospital for X- rays. Harvey has a bruised right forearm, and Grimsley bruised his left forearm and right jaw. Both are day-to-day.

When they departed, Jaime Cerda came in from the bullpen still facing a bases-loaded, one-out situation.

His luck wasn't any better than that of Grimsley, who faced three batters and gave up a four-pitch walk, an RBI single to pinch hitter David Ortiz and the run-scoring fielder's choice when his jaw stopped Harvey's throw.

Pokey Reese's bloop single to right tied the game at 3-all before Johnny Damon's third double of the day, this one a two-run shot down the right-field line, gave the Red Sox their 5-3 lead.

"Nothing went right that inning, and that was the ballgame," said Cerda, who in allowing all three inherited runners to score snapped a streak of stranding 18 of the last 19 runners he inherited.

"I was ready to come in, but I didn't get it done," Cerda said. "The ball Pokey hit was a pretty good pitch, out of the zone, but he reached out and flared it to right. That's what big-league hitters do."

The five-run, three-hit Boston sixth was helped along by four walks --- two by Royals starter Chris George, who experienced a dramatic turn of fortune in his final inning.

George, making only his second big-league appearance this year, was sitting on a 3-0 lead --- the result of Mike Sweeney's two-run homer in the first and a scratch run in the third --- after striking out four of six Red Sox in the second and third innings. But his control faded in the fateful sixth when he walked two of the first three Boston hitters.

"Even though I walked those first two guys, I still thought I was making good pitches," George said. "But the big difference between pitching in Triple-A and up here is the hitters' eyes. They lay off close pitches here. My hat's off to the Red Sox. I wish the sixth inning had gone different, but otherwise I thought I did a good job."
Copyright 2004
Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved.

* 1
* 2

advertisement
Most Popular White Papers

* 10 Most Unusual Interview Mistakes
* Five Principles To Improve Your Leadership Skills
* 5 Answers: What's Your Biggest Weakness?
* How To Write A Strategic Plan: A Simple Outline
* How To Answer 10 Tough Interview Questions

advertisement

Content provided in partnership with ProQuest

* BNET US
* BNET AU
* BNET UK
* BNET China

Site Help & Feedback | About BNET

Popular on CBS sites: March Madness | iPhone 3G | Fantasy Baseball | Antivirus Software | Recipes | Spore | Katy Perry
Visit other CBS Interactive Sites

About CBS Interactive | Jobs | Advertise | Mobile | RSS

© 2009 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Site Map

The play that led Jack Buck to utter, "and we'll see you tomorrow night!"

Puckett's home run off Leibrandt in game six of the '91 series. The play made my favorite baseball game of all time possible; Jack Morris' ten inning shutout in game seven.

ROFLROFL

I remember that. Awesome.

I'm surprised that Grimsley's HGH laden face didn't break that ****er's arm.

Brett's 3 run home run off Goose Gossage to send us into the World Series. My memory is a lil fuzzy but I believe it was game 7 in the playoffs and the Yanks had dicked us like 3 years in a row in game 7. Also sweet Brett moment against the A's Billy Martin had the pitcher throw 3 pitches way outside as if to intentionally walk brett, then come back with a fastball over the plate which George yanked out of the park :) I have lot's of good memories from those years and wish I could remember exact dates but alas I've been drinking again so sorry I can't articulate as well as I'd like. Like Denny Mathews said, you don't tug on superman's cape, ya don't spit in the wind and ya don't pull the mask off the lone lone ranger and you do not pitch to the hottest hitter in baseball. Sorry just an o;d guy getting excited for some Royals baseball after years of apathy.

From what I'm guessing you go to a few Royals games, you should let me know when your going to one sometime and I'll buy you a beer or something. I gotta owe you at least that from the enjoyment and sometimes laughter I get reading your posts.