lamest HR you've ever seen? (difficulty: no shot heard round the world)

discuss.

my nomination- lance berkman's grand slam, 2005 NLDS game 4. would have been a lazy pop-out in friggin any other park. lance acted like he didn't get anything on the ball.

i hate minute maid park.

edit: changed the title. thompson's HR is obvious.

 

Re: lamest HR you've ever seen?

That pop fly Bobby Thomson hit in 1951 went about 277 feet. :

 

Prince Fielder's inside the parker.

 

wrong as usual, starman.

The extreme left-field corner in the Polo Grounds was 279. Thomson hit a line drive that landed about halfway up in the left field seats, probably 20-30 feet from the corner, where the distance to the wall was closer to 350.

 

May 27, 1993: Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
Tribe's Carlos Martinez' fly ball goes off Jose Canseco's brainbox and over the wall in Cleveland's one-run win over the Rangers. That's going to be tough to beat.

 

Derek Jeter-Jeffrey Maier.

 

Berkman's HR is nowhere close to being the worst example of a lazy HR.

 

Rockies-Astros, then-Enron Field.

Todd Helton slams his bat on the ground, upset at himself for missing a hittable pitch. Screams loud enough for us to hear it (we're sitting relatively close to home plate).

Ball lands in the first row of the Crawford Boxes. Opposite-field homer. He laughs all the way down the third-base line.

 

My, I think we have a thread-ending post.

 

Mark McGwire's 62nd home run in 1998.

And I don't say that to disparage McGwire or bring up the whole debate about him. That home run just kinda sucked. It was Rey Sanchez-esque.

 

Joe Carter's homer in Game 6 in 1993.

I have to agree about the Derek Jeter - Maier.

 

I don't recall McGwire's 62nd nor Carter's Phillie-beating HRs being particularly cheap.
At least they actually were hit into the seats...as opposed to Jeter's 320-foot pop fly that should have been an out.