So I just logged on to facebook and saw Willis's status about a home-run derby at Fenway...It's the top of the 8th and the Red Sox have hit 5 home runs, including 4 homeruns in the 5th inning, including back to back homeruns by Jason (WHY DID THE METS TRADE HIM TO GET STEVE REED) Bay and Mike Lowell.
I've seen back to back homeruns at a baseball game before. It beats Bay and Lowell too. I saw Brian McRae and Bobby Bonilla go back to back at Shea Stadium. That's was an amazing moment. The chances of them going back to back are so slim, yet they did it in my presence.
The first grand slam I ever saw at a game was at Comerica Park by Tiger Dean Palmer. The second live grand slam I ever saw was by Jorge Posada at the Sky Dome. The longest Home Run I've ever seen live at a game is probably off of the bat of Carlos Delgado as he hit one off of the glass on the resturuants at Sky Dome.
The first homerun I ever saw was at Shea Stadium and I believe it was by Damon Buford. He hit two that game. I was so young at the time but I researched box scores and looked for Mets v Astros games when I was 7 or 8 that had stats that were similar to what I remember happening. Carl Everett also homered for the Mets that game.
If you think I saw a lot of Mike Piazza home runs your wrong. For whatever reason in the tons of games that I saw he almost never homered. He did hit one, one of the longest ones I remember, against the Rockies at Shea Stadium off of Mike Hampton in his return to Shea. It hit off of the camera tower in center field. The player I think I've seen homer the most often is Edgardo Alfonzo and Carlos Delgado. I've seen tons of Alfonzo's games. I also traveled to Toronto and saw Delgado play atleast 5 games at Sky Dome. I've also seen him play for the Mets and he's homered at almost all of the games that I've been at these played in.
My first and last games at Yankee Stadium were great. Mariano Duncan homered for the Yankees. Damion Easley lead off the game with a homerun off of Jimmy Key I think. The Tigers creamed the Yankees. The last game I saw was the only Subway Series game that I've been too. Cliff Floyd (who often homered at games I went to) homered, as did David Wright. The Mets creamed the Yankees.
The last game I saw at Shea was also great. The Mets won. Daniel Murphy's homerun was the last homerun I saw at Shea. Carlos Beltran and Carlos Delgado also homered.
Vladimir Guererro also hit some incredible homeruns. He creamed one at Shea once, but the one I really remember was a homerun he hit off of Met picther Mark Corey at Olympic Stadium. (Olympic Stadium games were so weird, The Expos played in Montreal which is in Quebec, where they speak French. Everything was spoken in French first and then English.)
Vlad hit a pitch that was clearly a ball, maybe 3-6 inches from the ground over the center field fence.
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