Craziest thing you've seen in baseball

Since baseball is the sport for insane things to happen, let's share some of the best we've seen.

Here's mine: Many years ago, i'm covering a local American Legion team in our area. Said team was 0-31. They were bad, yes, but some losses were bad luck of massive proportions.

And then this happened.

The team had 9 players show up for a home game one night. Bad team is losing, 5-4, heading into the bottom of the last inning. First batter walks. Winning run comes to the plate, torches what many believe was a walk-off home run over a short chain-linked fence in left-center field. First win of the season, it's thought.

However, the umpires rule that the ball bounced over the fence, thus awarding a double and runners on second and third.

Bad Team goes apeshit, screaming at the ump, going crazy. The on-deck batter throws his helmet as hard as he could against the backstop while he argues. He gets tossed.

Because Bad Team had no subs, no one could bat for the batter who just got tossed. They had to forfeit.

They finished 0-40.

 

Larry Rothschild's continued employment.

 

Seven-year guaranteed contract for pitchers.

 

Covered the Pine Tar Game..... George Brett "attacking" Tim McClelland....the greatest thing I've ever seen.

 

Thursday's Mariners-Devil Rays game I attended was pretty crazy. 13-12 final and twice the Mariners third base coach gave Jose Lopez the go sign when he clearly wasn't going to have a chance with the play at the plate. The second time he was going for an inside-the-park homer which is WAY more exciting to watch than I could ever imagine.

Also seeing if the Rays bullpen could blow a 12-4 lead was rather crazy and entertaining.

And why is Richie Sexton still in their lineup? 25 runs, over 30 hits and he didn't have any of them.

 

Does the Expos mascot count? ;D

 

George Brett was my all-time fave non-Blue Jay. I had my picture taken in front of the exhibit that had the pine tar bat during my trip to the baseball HOF.

 

Youppi kicked some ass.

 

He always starts slow. By the end of the year he'll have 30 homers, 110 RBIs, 125 strikeouts and a .260 average.

 

Okay, and the name "youppi" says it all :

 

Did Youppi go to Washington with the 'spos?

And the craziest thing I've seen? It wasn't in person, but George Bell karate kicking Bruce Kison, then wheeling around to pop Rich Gedman, who had chased him out to the mound. I know it was 1985 and it was on television, and something tells me it was a Game of the Week on NBC. I could be wrong about that.

Naturally, if you try to look up the incident on the net today, you'll see all kinds of Red Sox fanboy looser revisionists who insist that Kison dodged the kick and punched Bell out. Uh, yeah, as if!