Tag Archives: home run
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Edwin Encarnacion Became Just the 14th Player to Hit a Home Run into the Upper Deck at the Rogers Centre in Toronto (Video)
The Rogers Centre in Toronto is one of the last stadiums of its kind: a colossus multipurpose venue with perfect symmetry and an upper deck that’s about five stories high. They used to have joints like this in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Pittsburgh, among others, but now the Rogers Centre (née SkyDome) is the [...]
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Feel-Good Story: Reds’ Todd Frazier Hits a Home Run For Bat Boy With Down Syndrome (Video)
With all of the talks about bombings, shootouts and manhunts dominating the day’s news, I bet many of you sure could use a heart-warming, feel-good story right about now. Well here it is. It comes to us courtesy of the Cincinnati Reds and one of their biggest fans, Ted Kremer. You see, Teddy, 29, has Down [...]
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Yankees Fan’s Tall Glove Comes Up Short On Raul Ibanez’s Home Run (Video)
When most of you watched Raul Ibanez hit a two-run homer to tie the game in the bottom of the ninth inning during Game 1 of the ALCS on Saturday, you were probably thinking to yourself, “Did that just happen? Did this 40-year-old designated hitter just hit another game-tying home run in the bottom of [...]
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This Day In Sports History (September 26th) — Roger Maris
It was on this day in 1961 that Roger Maris hit his 60th home run of the season, tying Babe Ruth’s record for most home runs in a single season. The 1961 season marked the first season that the MLB extended its schedule to 162 games. Prior to the start of the season, Maris was [...]
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This Day In Sports History (September 14th) – Toronto Blue Jays
It was on this day in 1987 that the Toronto Blue Jays hit a Major League record 10 home runs in a single game. The Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles 18-3 in a game played at Toronto’s Exhibition Stadium. Catcher Ernie Whitt would lead the charge with three home runs, while both George [...]
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Home Run Ball Bounces Off Man’s Crotch Into Woman’s Face (Video)
Perhaps this home run ball, which bounced off the groin of one man before striking his woman in the face, was simply foreshadowing the events that would take place between this couple later in the evening. Whatever the case may be, this isn’t the first time a Rays fan has taken a homer to the [...]
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Two Minor League Outfielders Go Over The Wall To Make The Catch (Video)
Last week, Josh Reddick of the Oakland A’s showed some heart and determination in the outfield by leaping over the wall and landing in the Red Sox bullpen while attempting to take a home run away from David Ortiz. Unfortunately for him, he would come up empty handed. And now he is being shown up [...]
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Big Papi Homer Sends The Ball And Josh Reddick Into The Red Sox Bullpen (Video)
Entering last night, David Ortiz hadn’t been hitting much out of the park, as he had just four homers in his first 21 games of the 2012 MLB season. During last night’s game against the Oakland A’s, he seemed to be sending everything out of the ballpark, as he hit two homers off Tommy Milone, [...]
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Rangers Fan Catches Home Run Ball, Celebrates With Sprinkler Dance (Video)
After catching seven home run balls during the 2011 MLB season, Texas Rangers fan Trent Williams figured it was about time he begins celebrating these souvenir grabs with a sprinkler dance. And during last night’s game between the Rangers and the Seattle Mariners, he introduced that dance to the world. In an interview with a [...]
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Ole Miss Celebrate Home Run With A Beer Shower (Video)
Celebrations following scoring plays have become all the rage in sports like football and soccer, and now it appears as though baseball has finally begun to catch onto the trend. We saw evidence of that during last year’s Little League World Series, and this year it appears as though the Ole Miss student section has [...]
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Adrian Beltre Laughs At Falling Cameraman (Video)
If hitting three home runs during Game 4 of the ALDS wasn’t enough to put a smile on the face of Adrian Beltre, watching the cameraman take a tumble while following him around the base path during one of those homers certainly was. It was also enough to get a bit of a chuckle out [...]
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Rays Fan Takes Dan Johnson’s Game-Tying Home Run To The Groin (Video)
When Dan Johnson connected on a two-out, 2-2 pitch in the bottom of the ninth and sent it over the right field fence at Tropicana Field, there was one fan in the stands that was left feeling exactly like the Red Sox must have felt at that moment. In the case of the Sox, they [...]
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Unaware Fan Hit In The Neck By Home Run Ball (Video)
Watching balls fly into the stands at high speeds is all part of the game of baseball. As a result, you will find plenty of signs around every Major League stadium reminding fans to “be aware of objects leaving the field of play.” Coincidentally, one man present at Petco Park for yesterday’s game between the [...]
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Elaborate Home Run Celebration At The Little League World Series (Video)
At the risk of sounding really old, isn’t anyone teaching kids about a little thing called sportsmanship these days? At the Little League World Series in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, the team from the Netherlands performed an elaborately choreographed celebration after a home run by Phayson Antonio. After smashing an opposite field long ball, Antonio rounds [...]
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There Is A Kid In The Camden Yards Bleachers Stealing All The Home Run Balls (Video)
If you have made it out to any of the Baltimore Orioles last three games against the Chicago White Sox at Camden Yards and were hoping to get your hands on a home run ball, your odds of doing so decreased by a substantial margin, thanks to the kid in the video below, who is [...]
