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

[king cranium maximus IV]

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.

 

[Starman]

Re: lamest HR you've ever seen?

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

 

[boots]

Prince Fielder's inside the parker.

 

[spnited]

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

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.

 

[Killick]

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.

 

[spnited]

Derek Jeter-Jeffrey Maier.

 

[alleyallen]

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

 

[beefncheddar]

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.

 

[hockeybeat]

Derek Jeter-Jeffrey Maier.

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

 

[Clever username]

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.

 

[Mayfly]

Joe Carter's homer in Game 6 in 1993.

I have to agree about the Derek Jeter - Maier.

 

[spnited]

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.

 

[Mayfly]

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.

Carter's home run just went over the wall at the Sky Dome. It was hard to tell about Jeter's, I mean the ball could have hit the wall above Hammonds. But Jeter's was very, very cheap.

 

[spnited]

Not Hammonds ... Tony Tarasco, whose glove was directly under Jeffrey Maier's when Maier reached over the wall and made the catch.

 

[Mayfly]

Not Hammonds ... Tony Tarasco, whose glove was directly under Jeffrey Maier's when Maier reached over the wall and made the catch.

It was Tarasco? Jeez, time flies.

 

[mpcincal]

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.

Yeah, I remember that. I also remember thinking up to that night how funny it would be if, after all those tape-measure jobs he hit that year, his record-breaker would be one that just went over the fence or even, gasp, an inside-the-park homer. (Spnited, IIRC, the 62nd was a pretty hard hit line drive that just barely cleared the fence in left.)

In that vein, I remember a game between the Dodgers and Giants in 1978, when the Giants were an out or two away from winning the game when Lee Lacy hit a fly ball to right. Larry Herndon caught it but collided with right fielder Jack Clark. Both went down and you could see Herndon land flat on his back, and a split second later his glove hits the ground and then the ball is seen rolling out. Lacy of course was on his way to a IPHR to tie it up. (
Epilogue: The Giants scored in the bottom of the ninth to win it.)

And this year: Angels-Dodgers. Gary Matthews hits it well to right but not out. Right fielder James Loney can't reach the fly ball and it hits the wall. Unfortunately, for the Dodgers, Loney's knee hits the wall also, down at the bottom part that isn't padded. Loney's down, with the ball next to him, and Matthews rounds the bases.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Derek Jeter-Jeffrey Maier.

I ought to just lock the thread after this post and delete everything after. This is so the winner that Frank Perdue is ready to rise from the grave and cook spnited his dinner.

 

[MilanWall]

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.

This would be my vote. After all that build-up, I was like...that little line drive was IT?

 

[amraeder]

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.

This is the first one I thought of. Very anti-climatic.

 

[spnited]

Derek Jeter-Jeffrey Maier.

I ought to just lock the thread after this post and delete everything after. This is so the winner that Frank Perdue is ready to rise from the grave and cook spnited his dinner.

Let Frank rest in piece... send Giada over to cook with for me.


I was going to declare "end of thread" when I made the Jeter post but I would never be so pompous and self-serving as to do something like that