What's your favorite baseball play

oddfellow4870 · 05-18-2006, 05:45 AM

Mine is the unassisted throw to the plate from the outfield to nail a runner trying to score. You don't see them much any more ......... Outfielders used to have great arms.... What happened?

Ozzy · 05-18-2006, 07:07 AM

If not the squeeze bunt... then the brush back pitch. It's one of the few plays that lingers on when the other team takes the field.

rocketman29 · 05-18-2006, 07:15 AM

The final out of any Yankee loss.

gg2002 · 05-18-2006, 07:42 AM

When the winners of the world series throw their gloves and hats in the air signaling the season is finally over.

ZagatMP · 05-18-2006, 08:57 AM

The triple play and inside the park homers...those are rare and be nice to see anytime.

fortydog · 05-18-2006, 09:17 AM

I love the difficult double-play and of course the walk-off grandslam (for your favorite team).

Bigd18 · 05-18-2006, 05:32 PM

As a former Pitcher, The pickoff at Second( Hey all the good ones were already taken)

Bigd18 · 05-18-2006, 05:34 PM

I juste thought of another, a diving 3rd baseman catching one on the line with the game tied

paulbunyon · 05-18-2006, 06:04 PM

A triple is one of the most difficult (and exciting) plays to pull off.

Mr. User Name · 05-18-2006, 06:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paulbunyon

A triple is one of the most difficult (and exciting) plays to pull off.

I'm happy if I can get it up twice.

misterxyz · 05-18-2006, 06:46 PM

Anytime the Red Sox get a hit off of Mariano Rivera.

rocketman29 · 05-19-2006, 05:14 AM

last year's subway series game when Randy Johnson was pitching at Shea and Dae Sung Koo, a relief pitcher for the Mets who never bats hit a double into center of the Big Duffus. That was the most unlikely play of the year and maybe ever that I have seen. Then, to top it off, he scores on a single from second base and does a head first slide at home around the tag of Posada!!! I thought the stadium was going to fall down that day.

BTW, I will be at Shea tonight hoping for another Randy Johnson moment. Let's Go Mets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

paulbunyon · 05-19-2006, 09:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. User Name

I'm happy if I can get it up twice.

Yeah I hear ya, I haven't hit a triple since way back in Single A Ball. Those days are gone.

daengman · 05-19-2006, 10:46 AM

My favorite play in baseball is when the batter smokes a hard liner back to the mound, chest high, and we get to watch the pitcher try to duck, dance and jump out of the way like a spastic retard. If the ball hits the pitcher and bounces off, then its fun to watch him grope for the ball so he can throw it to first to try to get the out.
If the ball should hit the pitcher in the nuts, well that's a real thigh-slapper.

jayp67 · 05-19-2006, 12:12 PM

I have to agree with Bigd18 about this one.

I remember one of the World Series games back in '78 (I think..?) when Graig Nettles basically saved Ron Guidry's ass at least 3 times. Anyone else remember any more of the specifics? Nettles sure put on one helluva defensive showcase that game. It was thrilling to watch.

zarathustra88 · 05-19-2006, 12:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daengman

My favorite play in baseball is when the batter smokes a hard liner back to the mound, chest high, and we get to watch the pitcher try to duck, dance and jump out of the way like a spastic retard. If the ball hits the pitcher and bounces off, then its fun to watch him grope for the ball so he can throw it to first to try to get the out.
If the ball should hit the pitcher in the nuts, well that's a real thigh-slapper.

LMAO! Basebal's such a great sport to watch because there are so many exciting plays-ITP home runs, triples, how 'bout batter bunting and runner dashing home from third (squeeze play), double steals, hit and run, ANY play at the plate, catchers gunning down lead-offs at first, all grand-slams, especially a late inning pinch hit, the whole array of defensive gems, nail-biting pitchers' battles, a journeyman player stretching an obvious single into a double-whether he's thrown out or not...all part of the reason spring is even sweeter than it has to be...

Mr. User Name · 05-19-2006, 12:41 PM

Brooks Robinson
(Who’s Graig Nettles?)

Bigd18 · 05-19-2006, 01:37 PM

Graig Nettles was very good at that Mr User Name, But I have to agree with you Brooks was the man in his day.

I just thought of another one:

Even though he is a dick, Any time Pete Rose was running the bases, He earned that Name " Charlie Hustle"

Lascivious · 05-23-2006, 10:19 AM

Nettles and Ron Cey put on a 3B defensive clinic in the 81 series but yes, nobody was better than Brooks.

robnotbob · 05-25-2006, 04:23 AM

Hidden Ball trick

Daddycool · 05-25-2006, 05:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bigd18

As a former Pitcher, The pickoff at Second( Hey all the good ones were already taken)

As a former infielder, the daylight play was awesome.

Mr. User Name · 05-25-2006, 07:04 AM

As a former fan, my favorite play is the seventh inning stretch.

Ozzy · 05-25-2006, 06:33 PM

Mike Schmidt was a better fielder than Nettles.

Toss up between he and Brooks.

Mr. Wet Wooly · 05-25-2006, 07:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. User Name

As a former fan, my favorite play is the seventh inning stretch.

The seventh inning beer piss.

Mr. Wet Wooly · 05-25-2006, 07:44 PM

The late inning, game deciding home run against a geat pitcher. The Kurt Gibson World Series homer had to be the greatest play I've seen in my lifetime.

Lascivious · 05-26-2006, 07:28 AM

NOthing's better than a soft grounder going through Buckner's wickets(except my hard rod going through Angelina Jolie's warm cheeks). NO worse WMD than that in beantown.

SkellyChamp · 05-26-2006, 02:06 PM

1976 - Rick Monday; Cubs v. Dodgers

Ozzy · 05-26-2006, 02:33 PM

As much as I'm turned off to the game today.... Thats still one of my great memories of baseball.

Of course some liberal ACLU fucknuts here will probably say that he stifled someones right of free speech that day.

Rick Monday Saved the Flag 30 Years Ago

By JOE RESNICK
The Associated Press
Saturday, April 22, 2006; 8:59 PM

LOS ANGELES -- Rick Monday never tires of answering questions about that memorable day 30 years ago, when he performed his own Patriot Act and unwittingly became an icon to millions of American war heroes and their loved ones.

Monday was playing center field for the Chicago Cubs on April 25, 1976, at Dodger Stadium when he noticed two protesters kneeling on the grass in left-center, intending to burn the American flag. He immediately bolted toward them and snatched it away.

Outfielder Rick Monday of the Chicago Cubs dashes between two men in the Dodger Stadium Outfield in Los Angeles, in this April 25, 1976 photo, snatching an American flag the men were about to burn. In honor of the 30th anniversary of his saving the American flag on April 25, 1976, the Los Angeles Dodgers will recognize Rick Monday on Sunday, April 23 with a video tribute. Monday, a Dodger broadcaster, will also be on hand to throw out the first ceremonial pitch.

"I was angry when I saw them start to do something to the flag, and I'm glad that I happened to be geographically close enough to do something about it," said Monday, now in his 13th season as a Dodgers broadcaster.

"What those people were doing, and their concept of what they were trying to do was wrong. That feeling was very strongly reinforced by six years in the United States Marine Corps Reserves. I still think it's wrong to do that."

The Dodgers will acknowledge the event before the finale of a nine-game homestand on Sunday, two days before the actual anniversary of it. A video tribute will be shown before the game and Monday will throw out a ceremonial first pitch. On Tuesday, the Houston Astros will honor him as well when the Dodgers play the middle game of a three-game series.

Back in '76, Monday was presented with the flag in a ceremony at Wrigley Field by Dodgers executive Al Campanis. It hung in his home in Vero Beach, Fla., until a couple of years ago, when the house sustained severe damage from a hurricane. Now it's in a safety deposit box.

Monday wouldn't say how much the flag is insured for, but "you'd have to add a lot of zeros. People have offered an outrageous amount of money for it _ not that it's for sale."

The Baseball Hall of Fame recently named Monday's quick-thinking act as one of the 100 Classic Moments in the history of the game.

"Whatever their protest was about, what they were attempting to do to the flag _ which represents a lot of rights and freedoms that we all have _ was wrong for a lot of reasons," Monday said. "Not only does it desecrate the flag, but it also desecrates the effort and the lives that have been laid down to protect those rights and freedoms for all of us."

In Peter Golenbock's 1996 book, "Wrigleyville: A Magical History Tour of the Chicago Cubs," former Cubs reliever Darold Knowles recalled what happened in the aftermath of Monday's flag-saving effort.

"That put Rick on the map," said Knowles, a teammate of Monday's for two seasons in Chicago and one in Oakland. "Rick got more recognition out of the flag incident than he got as a player. He was getting letters from all over the country, all the time _ from VFWs (Veterans of Foreign Wars) and American Legions organizations. Every place we'd go, somebody would honor him with a plaque. He let us read some of the letters (from) people thanking him."

Along with the flag, Monday has a copy of the 16-mm footage taken by a fan who was at the game, as well as Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully's play-by-play of the incident. Also among his souvenirs is a copy of the now-famous photo by James Roarke of Monday just as he grabbed the flag.

Monday hit a career-high 32 home runs that season before the Dodgers acquired him from the Cubs with reliever Mike Garman, in exchange for outfielder Bill Buckner and backup shortstop Ivan DeJesus. Monday spent the final eight seasons of his career with Los Angeles, helping the Dodgers win three pennants in a five-year span.

He was the first player chosen in the very first draft back in 1965 after leading Arizona State to a College World Series title. The two-time All-Star put up some impressive numbers during his 19 major league seasons. His ninth-inning home run in the fifth and deciding game of the 1981 NL Championship Series at Montreal catapulted the Dodgers into the World Series, where they beat the Yankees in six games.

But all of that pales in comparison to Monday's most famous achievement in a baseball uniform.

"I know the people were very pleased to see Monday take the flag away from those guys," recalled Manny Mota, Monday's teammate that season and now a Dodgers coach. "I know Rick has done a lot of good things as a player and as a person. But what he did for his country, he will be remembered for the rest of his life as an American hero."

Ozzy · 05-26-2006, 02:57 PM

Here's a link to MLB.com with more of the story and more photos as well as Vin Scully's original play by play. The game was not televised being a day game in LA, so there is no archived video of it, just those few famous photos, but apparently there is a Super8 16mm film floating around that was shot by a fan in the seats that day.

daengman · 05-28-2006, 06:32 AM

While not truely a baseball play, is there any one that doesn't enjoy seeing Lou Pinella argue with the umpires. It starts with Lou racing out of the dougout after what he percieves as a bad call and starts arguing with the ump. Lou invariably turns his cap around so he can get his face so close to the umps face that the seperation is barely the thickness of a credit card all the while shouting at the top of his lungs. Lou questions the call, Lou questions the ump's ability, he even questions the ump's parentage.
Lou throws his hat on the ground and kicks dirt on home plate so that the ump will have to bend over and sweep the plate. If he is arguing at one of the bases, he will rip the base from the ground and throw it into the outfield.
Along the way Lou has been tossed from the game.
A Lou Pinella argument with an ump is always well worth the price of admission.

05-18-2006, 05:45 AM	#1
oddfellow4870 Gold Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 3,091 vCash: 500	What's your favorite baseball play Mine is the unassisted throw to the plate from the outfield to nail a runner trying to score. You don't see them much any more ......... Outfielders used to have great arms.... What happened?

05-19-2006, 10:46 AM	#14
daengman Gold Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,493 vCash: 500	My favorite play in baseball is when the batter smokes a hard liner back to the mound, chest high, and we get to watch the pitcher try to duck, dance and jump out of the way like a spastic retard. If the ball hits the pitcher and bounces off, then its fun to watch him grope for the ball so he can throw it to first to try to get the out. If the ball should hit the pitcher in the nuts, well that's a real thigh-slapper. Last edited by daengman; 05-19-2006 at 10:47 AM..

05-19-2006, 12:12 PM	#15
jayp67 Silver Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 219 vCash: 500	3rd Basemen snaring line drives I have to agree with Bigd18 about this one. I remember one of the World Series games back in '78 (I think..?) when Graig Nettles basically saved Ron Guidry's ass at least 3 times. Anyone else remember any more of the specifics? Nettles sure put on one helluva defensive showcase that game. It was thrilling to watch.

05-19-2006, 12:41 PM	#17
Mr. User Name Gold Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,955 vCash: 500	3rd Basemen snaring line drives Brooks Robinson (Who’s Graig Nettles?)

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05-18-2006, 07:07 AM	#2
Ozzy Gold Join Date: Dec 2000 Posts: 15,453 vCash: 500	If not the squeeze bunt... then the brush back pitch. It's one of the few plays that lingers on when the other team takes the field.

05-18-2006, 07:15 AM	#3
rocketman29 Silver Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 184 vCash: 500	The final out of any Yankee loss.

05-18-2006, 07:42 AM	#4
gg2002 Silver Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 244 vCash: 500	When the winners of the world series throw their gloves and hats in the air signaling the season is finally over.

05-18-2006, 08:57 AM	#5
ZagatMP Gold Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 620 vCash: 500	The triple play and inside the park homers...those are rare and be nice to see anytime.

05-18-2006, 09:17 AM	#6
fortydog Gold Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,861 vCash: 500	I love the difficult double-play and of course the walk-off grandslam (for your favorite team).

05-18-2006, 05:32 PM	#7
Bigd18 Gold Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,963 vCash: 500	As a former Pitcher, The pickoff at Second( Hey all the good ones were already taken)

05-18-2006, 05:34 PM	#8
Bigd18 Gold Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,963 vCash: 500	I juste thought of another, a diving 3rd baseman catching one on the line with the game tied

05-18-2006, 06:04 PM	#9
paulbunyon Moderator Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 7,983 vCash: 500	A triple is one of the most difficult (and exciting) plays to pull off.

05-18-2006, 06:46 PM	#11
misterxyz Gold Join Date: Dec 2000 Posts: 806 vCash: 500	Anytime the Red Sox get a hit off of Mariano Rivera.

05-19-2006, 05:14 AM	#12
rocketman29 Silver Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 184 vCash: 500	last year's subway series game when Randy Johnson was pitching at Shea and Dae Sung Koo, a relief pitcher for the Mets who never bats hit a double into center of the Big Duffus. That was the most unlikely play of the year and maybe ever that I have seen. Then, to top it off, he scores on a single from second base and does a head first slide at home around the tag of Posada!!! I thought the stadium was going to fall down that day. BTW, I will be at Shea tonight hoping for another Randy Johnson moment. Let's Go Mets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

05-19-2006, 01:37 PM	#18
Bigd18 Gold Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,963 vCash: 500	Graig Nettles was very good at that Mr User Name, But I have to agree with you Brooks was the man in his day. I just thought of another one: Even though he is a dick, Any time Pete Rose was running the bases, He earned that Name " Charlie Hustle"

05-23-2006, 10:19 AM	#19
Lascivious Gold Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,153 vCash: 500	Nettles and Ron Cey put on a 3B defensive clinic in the 81 series but yes, nobody was better than Brooks.

05-25-2006, 04:23 AM	#20
robnotbob Gold Join Date: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,914 vCash: 500	Hidden Ball trick

05-25-2006, 07:04 AM	#22
Mr. User Name Gold Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,955 vCash: 500	As a former fan, my favorite play is the seventh inning stretch.

05-25-2006, 06:33 PM	#23
Ozzy Gold Join Date: Dec 2000 Posts: 15,453 vCash: 500	Mike Schmidt was a better fielder than Nettles. Toss up between he and Brooks.

05-25-2006, 07:44 PM	#25
Mr. Wet Wooly Gold Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 1,983 vCash: 500	The late inning, game deciding home run against a geat pitcher. The Kurt Gibson World Series homer had to be the greatest play I've seen in my lifetime.

05-26-2006, 07:28 AM	#26
Lascivious Gold Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,153 vCash: 500	NOthing's better than a soft grounder going through Buckner's wickets(except my hard rod going through Angelina Jolie's warm cheeks). NO worse WMD than that in beantown.

05-26-2006, 02:06 PM	#27
SkellyChamp Gold Join Date: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,002 vCash: 500	1976 - Rick Monday; Cubs v. Dodgers

05-26-2006, 02:33 PM	#28
Ozzy Gold Join Date: Dec 2000 Posts: 15,453 vCash: 500	As much as I'm turned off to the game today.... Thats still one of my great memories of baseball. Of course some liberal ACLU fucknuts here will probably say that he stifled someones right of free speech that day. Rick Monday Saved the Flag 30 Years Ago By JOE RESNICK The Associated Press Saturday, April 22, 2006; 8:59 PM LOS ANGELES -- Rick Monday never tires of answering questions about that memorable day 30 years ago, when he performed his own Patriot Act and unwittingly became an icon to millions of American war heroes and their loved ones. Monday was playing center field for the Chicago Cubs on April 25, 1976, at Dodger Stadium when he noticed two protesters kneeling on the grass in left-center, intending to burn the American flag. He immediately bolted toward them and snatched it away. Outfielder Rick Monday of the Chicago Cubs dashes between two men in the Dodger Stadium Outfield in Los Angeles, in this April 25, 1976 photo, snatching an American flag the men were about to burn. In honor of the 30th anniversary of his saving the American flag on April 25, 1976, the Los Angeles Dodgers will recognize Rick Monday on Sunday, April 23 with a video tribute. Monday, a Dodger broadcaster, will also be on hand to throw out the first ceremonial pitch. "I was angry when I saw them start to do something to the flag, and I'm glad that I happened to be geographically close enough to do something about it," said Monday, now in his 13th season as a Dodgers broadcaster. "What those people were doing, and their concept of what they were trying to do was wrong. That feeling was very strongly reinforced by six years in the United States Marine Corps Reserves. I still think it's wrong to do that." The Dodgers will acknowledge the event before the finale of a nine-game homestand on Sunday, two days before the actual anniversary of it. A video tribute will be shown before the game and Monday will throw out a ceremonial first pitch. On Tuesday, the Houston Astros will honor him as well when the Dodgers play the middle game of a three-game series. Back in '76, Monday was presented with the flag in a ceremony at Wrigley Field by Dodgers executive Al Campanis. It hung in his home in Vero Beach, Fla., until a couple of years ago, when the house sustained severe damage from a hurricane. Now it's in a safety deposit box. Monday wouldn't say how much the flag is insured for, but "you'd have to add a lot of zeros. People have offered an outrageous amount of money for it _ not that it's for sale." The Baseball Hall of Fame recently named Monday's quick-thinking act as one of the 100 Classic Moments in the history of the game. "Whatever their protest was about, what they were attempting to do to the flag _ which represents a lot of rights and freedoms that we all have _ was wrong for a lot of reasons," Monday said. "Not only does it desecrate the flag, but it also desecrates the effort and the lives that have been laid down to protect those rights and freedoms for all of us." In Peter Golenbock's 1996 book, "Wrigleyville: A Magical History Tour of the Chicago Cubs," former Cubs reliever Darold Knowles recalled what happened in the aftermath of Monday's flag-saving effort. "That put Rick on the map," said Knowles, a teammate of Monday's for two seasons in Chicago and one in Oakland. "Rick got more recognition out of the flag incident than he got as a player. He was getting letters from all over the country, all the time _ from VFWs (Veterans of Foreign Wars) and American Legions organizations. Every place we'd go, somebody would honor him with a plaque. He let us read some of the letters (from) people thanking him." Along with the flag, Monday has a copy of the 16-mm footage taken by a fan who was at the game, as well as Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully's play-by-play of the incident. Also among his souvenirs is a copy of the now-famous photo by James Roarke of Monday just as he grabbed the flag. Monday hit a career-high 32 home runs that season before the Dodgers acquired him from the Cubs with reliever Mike Garman, in exchange for outfielder Bill Buckner and backup shortstop Ivan DeJesus. Monday spent the final eight seasons of his career with Los Angeles, helping the Dodgers win three pennants in a five-year span. He was the first player chosen in the very first draft back in 1965 after leading Arizona State to a College World Series title. The two-time All-Star put up some impressive numbers during his 19 major league seasons. His ninth-inning home run in the fifth and deciding game of the 1981 NL Championship Series at Montreal catapulted the Dodgers into the World Series, where they beat the Yankees in six games. But all of that pales in comparison to Monday's most famous achievement in a baseball uniform. "I know the people were very pleased to see Monday take the flag away from those guys," recalled Manny Mota, Monday's teammate that season and now a Dodgers coach. "I know Rick has done a lot of good things as a player and as a person. But what he did for his country, he will be remembered for the rest of his life as an American hero."

05-26-2006, 02:57 PM	#29
Ozzy Gold Join Date: Dec 2000 Posts: 15,453 vCash: 500	Here's a link to MLB.com with more of the story and more photos as well as Vin Scully's original play by play. The game was not televised being a day game in LA, so there is no archived video of it, just those few famous photos, but apparently there is a Super8 16mm film floating around that was shot by a fan in the seats that day.

05-28-2006, 06:32 AM	#30
daengman Gold Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,493 vCash: 500	While not truely a baseball play, is there any one that doesn't enjoy seeing Lou Pinella argue with the umpires. It starts with Lou racing out of the dougout after what he percieves as a bad call and starts arguing with the ump. Lou invariably turns his cap around so he can get his face so close to the umps face that the seperation is barely the thickness of a credit card all the while shouting at the top of his lungs. Lou questions the call, Lou questions the ump's ability, he even questions the ump's parentage. Lou throws his hat on the ground and kicks dirt on home plate so that the ump will have to bend over and sweep the plate. If he is arguing at one of the bases, he will rip the base from the ground and throw it into the outfield. Along the way Lou has been tossed from the game. A Lou Pinella argument with an ump is always well worth the price of admission.