Craziest thing you've seen in baseball

[Shaggy]

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 ape****, 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.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Larry Rothschild's continued employment.

 

[Claws for Concern]

Seven-year guaranteed contract for pitchers.

 

[spnited]

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

 

[nafselon]

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.

 

[Cansportschick]

Does the Expos mascot count? ;D

 

[Huggy]

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

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.

 

[Huggy]

Does the Expos mascot count? ;D

Youppi kicked some ass.

 

[micropolitan guy]

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

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

 

[Cansportschick]

Does the Expos mascot count? ;D

Youppi kicked some ass.

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

 

[spnited]

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

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.

 

[Double J]

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! :D

 

[Bubbler]

I saw Ben Sheets strike out the side on nine pitches and saw the Brewers strike out four times in one inning ... in the same game.

 

[Double J]

I've always wanted to see someone strike out the side on nine pitches. I know Bruce Sutter once did it - I think he was pitching for the Cubs at the time.

 

[NCScrub]

Saw Boone Logan strike out the side in the ninth on nine pitches last season in Triple A. Pretty cool. Amazing for him considering his control.

A few years ago we had a Legion game end 31-23 in 10 innings. I wasn't the unlucky reporter who was there and had to do an MLB-style box, but the winning team led 16-8 entering the bottom of the eighth. Home team puts up a 14-run bottom half, gives up seven in the top of the ninth and ties it at 23 heading into extras.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

An inside-the-park HR by Tony Armas in Tiger Stadium in 1983, occasioned by Chet Lemon running into the centerfield wall and knocking himself out.
Armas, who was 290 at the time, looked like Swale rounding third.

 

[ADifferentOkie]

One team I cover this year gave up nine runs in the bottom of the ninth to lose 10-9, and did it without recording a single out.
Nine runs, no outs.
Ug.

 

[JR]

Game Six.

 

[GB-Hack]

Did Youppi go to Washington with the 'spos?

From what I've seen, he stayed in the Montreal, and now works for the Canadiens.

 

[Huggy]

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! :D

Youppi signed on with the Canadiens following the Expos move.

I remember the Bell-Kison thing very well and I think that's the game where Ernie Whitt came up later, took Kison deep and screamed at him as he rounded the bases.

I was also at a Jays-Rangers game in the early 1990s when Rance Mulliniks hit an inside-the-park homer. I think he needed a difibulator (or however the hell you spell it) when he reached the plate.