Open Hey-I-Remember-that-Game Thread

I was at the game in 1993 when Robby Thompson hit the homer off of Bryan Harvey (sp?) in the bottom of the ninth to give the Giants the win. I have my ticket stub placed in my copy of Miracle at Candlestick, the book which was written about that season.

Sept. 7, 2007. We beat LA with an Ort walk-off. It was a beautiful night, I sat with good friend, and we had amazing seats. And…now don’t laugh, it was my first Giants game. Remember, I came to Baseball real late in life and I do not live in the Bay Area. One of the greatest days of my life though.

I started a FanPost about this a month or so ago after a particularly godawful loss. My best-game-attended was Dave Dravecky’s come-back game in 1989. Not the one everyone remembers in Montreal, where he broke his arm while pitching – he had one successful start before that, against the Reds and Candlestick. I was nine at the time, and went with my dad and one of his co-workers. The ballpark was swarming with media, and the whole game just went perfectly. Dravecky threw eight strong innings, the Giants won, and Pete Rose, just weeks from getting banned from baseball, threw a fit at the umpires and got his ass tossed from the game.

There have been Giants teams since 1989 that have probably been better (1993, 2000, 2002), but the 1989 team will always be my favorite, if only because I’ll never be nine again.

Durham’s walk-off 3-run HR against Houston Street and the A’s was sweet as heck. One of the more memorable games I’ve been too.

GIANTS 9TH: Sweeney singled to center; Bonds walked [Sweeney to
second]; Durham homered [Sweeney scored, Bonds scored]; 3 R, 2
H, 0 E, 0 LOB. Athletics 7, Giants 8.

Also, this game was great. Benard hits a walk-off shot against the Dodgers. First year at the new park and the place went nuts.

GIANTS 9TH: FETTERS REPLACED LEYRITZ (PITCHING); Benard homered;
1 R, 1 H, 0 E, 0 LOB. Dodgers 5, Giants 6.

I never hated Benard as much as other Giants fans. It was probably because of that home run.

I also saw the Brian Johnson home run in ‘97, which is definitely in my top-5 moments.

GIANTS 12TH: GUTHRIE REPLACED WORRELL (PITCHING); Johnson
homered; 1 R, 1 H, 0 E, 0 LOB. Dodgers 5, Giants 6.

Good times.

It was either the end of 1984 season or the beginning of the 1985 season that I attended a game in which Dan Gladden hit a walk-off homer over the chain link in a typically blustery night game at that awful stadium the Niners still play in. Just as vividly as I remember the homer, I remember the awkward celebration that ensued, as I was on a high school double date with a happy couple whose friend I was sitting next to and hadn’t really had a chance to get to know that well. A delayed, uncomfortable hug while bouncing up and down, with eyes fixed firmly on the field made for a rather odd mix of feelings. Maybe if we had been old enough to drink…

Game 5 of the World Series was pretty sweet , too.

We drive up from Santa Barbara to see the Giants and Dodgers. Breining vs. Reuss. Traffic causes us to miss virtually the entire game - when we finally get in, the first - literally first—thing we see is Rick Monday hit a grand slam. Game (virtually) over. I think this was in the eighth inning.

On the way in, fighting traffic, some classy Giants fan though we were Dodger fans and flicked a cigarette into my car.

All in all, one of the worst days of my life, and, alas, the most memorable game I’ve attended. It came two or three days after the Morgan homer of Terry Forster, which I barely heard on KNBR from Santa Barbara. THAT was a good day.

and the Fred Lewis shoestring catch, throw and doubling up Edmonds at home plate earlier this season? I was there, and it was awesome.

I went to the game as a surprise birthday gift from a friend. He had club level seats for me, him, and my boyfriend at the time. All three of us were good friends so we had a freaking blast out there. Calvin Murray started in centerfield and made a leaping catch. Shawn Estes started. We beat the Padres. Bonds hit #524.

It was also my first game at the new ballpark, and my first Giants home game ever. Tiens! I actually never went to Candlestick, and didn’t go until I went to a Niners game in 2003-ish.

That game was one of the best I’ve ever been to. My dad bought me the seats first row, right above the Giants’ dugout steps as a graduation present and it was absolutely one of the most enthralling and exciting games for me. It ranks up there with the 2000 division title clincher.

John Bowker is good at baseball. Timmy is legendary. Sitting above the dugout was incredible and we got to talk to Roberto Kelly who tossed us a ball. Bowker was really nice too. Timmy didn’t look up once :( but it was okay because he pitched so well.

I legitimately couldn’t stop smiling for the first five innings. And i mean grinning.

In conclusion, there are quite a few reasons that make this game one of the best ever. Also, we were right next to the owner’s pow-wow and I may have snapped a picture on my phone of Larry Baer picking his nose in a pinstripe suit. I’m not sure, I’ll have to check.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B04180SFN1993.htm

It was Picture Baseball giveaway day at the Stick. It didn’t bode well for the Giants early, when the Braves scored five runs in the first inning off Dave Burba, and with Tom Glavine starting, one might have written this game off right then and there. Amazingly, the Giants plated six total runs in the 2nd and 3rd to knock Glavine out of the game. But just as we were savoring the comeback, the Braves put up a six-spot in the fourth to regain a five-run lead. When Greg Olson homered off Kevin Rogers to cap the rally, a fan in the bleachers threw the ball back onto the field. Then someone threw a souvenir ball. Then another ball was thrown. Then another. And another and another. Before long, there were balls everywhere and the players vacated the field for several minutes.

With the Braves up 12-8 in the bottom of the ninth, we had all but put this one in the loss column. But a funny thing happened – the Giants started to put runners on base with aplomb. Darren Lewis led off with a walk. Will Clark singled. Matt Williams singled in a run. Barry Bonds doubled home another. Both Robby Thompson and Todd Benzinger hit sacrifice flies, and lo and behold, the game was tied.

Fast forward to the bottom of the 11th. Bonds took his place on the on-deck circle, with all of us anticipating one of his prototypical superhuman feats. Until…

Williams launched Steve Bedrosian’s first pitch into the left field bleachers to end it.

Pedro Feliz hits the game winning grand slam off Yancey Brazoban with 2 out in the bottom of the 8th to bring the Giants to within a game and a half of first with 4 to play. Unfortunately the rest of the week didn’t pan out the way it should have but at that moment it felt as if the stadium was going to come down.

My Simulator has the Giants with a win probability of 55% tonight. Vegas has this as a 50/50 game. That is why I am including the Giants as one of my feature MLB picks today. The list is as follows.

Giants ML +107
Marlins ML +145
Angels ML -116
Padres ML +174
BOS@PHI OVR 9.5
LAD@CIN OVR 8.5

These are your best value picks today.

vr, Xeifrank

If I’m remembering it right, the Giants playing the Duggers years ago at Candlestick. The Dodgers had come back to either tie or take the lead in the top of the 9th. I was bummed. Bonds hit a walk with 2 outs. It was awesome.

Does anyone remember the exact details of this game? Perhaps Bonds did this more than once.

I was 0 for my last 7 giants game. I even went to LA to see if my luck would change but nothing. Last year Giants v. Dodgers and the streak looked like it was going to continue but good old faithful Ray Durham hit a homer in the 8th inning and we held on for the victory. I was also at Barry Bonds 715 vs. the Rockies and I have never seen the Big Phone Booth go as crazy as it did that day

A few games do stick in my mind; one recent, two distant.
I listened to Schmidt’s 16Ks against the Marlins a couple of summers ago, and the final 3K inning with two runners on sent a tingle up my spine.

That one reminded me of one from my youth. My Dad woke me up to watch the end of an Expos-Cubs game in 1980.

I also did sit directly behind home plate at a game in Montreal (a couple of guys just gave me their extra ticket) to watch a young Pedro Martinez take a perfect game into the 8th against the Reds. He plunked Reggie Sanders to lead off the eighth, and Sanders had the nerve to bark about it as though it could have been intentional. Yeah. Somebody named Brian Dorsett hit a single in the ninth, and Wetteland let in 2 runs to tie it 2-2 after being summoned from the pen. Expos won it in the bottom. Not bad.

Can you tell I’m a fan of pitching?

Just off the top of my head, I’ll go with April 26th, 2006. Giants/Mets….Wednesday afternoon game. I was off of work and decided to just truck it from San Jose by myself. Weekday afternoon games ruled, except when they were after a night game. In 2006, that meant, of course, that Barry wasn’t in the lineup. Matt Morris was starting, which meant the Giants were losing most of the game.

Giants are down 7-4 in the 9th..Billy Wagner has come on the close it out.There’s one on and two out, and Barry comes out into the on-deck circle. The crowd goes wild. The Giants just need to get one more guy on base, then Barry would get to bat as the tying run. “Please, oh please get a hit Alou”.

Except, Alou didn’t get a hit. He did however reach on an error. The crowd goes wild again. Bonds comes up against gas-throwing lefty Wagner. Bonds hits it high, he hits it DEEEEP, HE HITS IT OUTTA HERE!!! Game tied! Barry then comes out to play left in the 10th inning, and from my seat just past third base, I do the reverential bow. I’ve always thought that bow was stupid, but he earned the bow.

Munter blew the game in the 11th, but just that moment where the stars aligned was enough to make me more than satisfied.

The most memorable game I’ll probably ever go to was actually in San Diego. We had purchased the tickets before the season even started, as the wife and I wanted to make the CA rounds in our (well…my) quest to visit all MLB parks. As they hit the midpoint of the year, the realization that we may actually see Bonds’ record breaking HR started to become a possibility. There was a stretch as the game got closer where Barry didn’t hit any out, and destiny seemed to be putting itself in my lap. I have no regrets or shame in saying that I was actively rooting for Barry to not hit any in the preceding weeks of the game.

As you all know, he ended up hitting the record-tying homerun that second game of that series. The Whale’s Vagina fans were booing him like no other until he hit the homerun, then they of course cheered and gave him a standing ovation. I may be biased in saying this, but Giants fans are the only ones that make sense to me. If, say, Piazza was going for the HR record, there’s no way in hell we’d cheer for him in our park.

Anyway, the park went absolutely bonkers and the whole time I wondered how the heck I got lucky enough to pick to go to that game (considering I go to about one per year). Unfortunately, we went with some friends that don’t like baseball much, and when it went to extra innings we left early because they were being penises about staying, and the Giants ended up losing.

Oh, and I also remember going to a game at the Stick years back and seeing Rueter hit a triple down the left field line. That was pretty amazing too.

Game 5 of the 2002 World Series

The night Bonds hit that 2-run homer against the Dodgers in 1997 and did that little spin.

1997 NL West clincher.

In 1993, I was riding my bike to our high school band camp (to learn the music and drill for our upcoming marching band show), when I was hit by a car. Long story short, it was my fault. I was rushed to the hospital in my first ever ambulence ride, and x-rayed. Nothing was broken, but I had a few good cuts, a migraine, and my head was spinning. Still, we had tickets to go to the Giants-Braves game that night, and I’ll be darned if I was going to miss it. That night, after a 90 mile drive, my dad, brother, a couple friends, and I caught the game.

Robby Thompson homered, but Trevor Wilson got injured (IIRC), and the Giants lost 6-4. Ultimately, it was a memorable game mostly because of the events of the day that led up to the game. It was a good game, despite the results.

I also went to a Giants-Astros game in 1997 on Labor Day (I believe) with my brother. Kirk Rueter pitched a great game, and the Giants won 4-3 in the 9th on a Barry Bonds solo homer (first batter of the inning, I think it was first pitch).

And my other brother and I caught a double-header at the Stick shortly before he got married (I think it was ‘96). The Giants sent me free tickets, and we chose doubleheader day against the Pirates. The Giants got swept (frickin’ sucked), but they honored Hank Greenwald between games, we caught a Marvin Benard foul ball, and it was FREE!

Also, the whole 2002 World Series. I was at ‘em all, away and home. I particularly remember the absolute sense of futility I’d had going to Game 7, and the hurry I was in to leave the stadium when it was all over.

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I was really pumped for this one. I got tickets WAY ahead of time, because Fenway Park
sells out like two minutes after tickets go on sale. Before the game, I was razzing all of my friends at school about how we were going to sweep the Red Sox and how much the Giants ruled. I sat down in my crappy, narrow wooden bleacher seats and watched the Giants and Zito get pummeled, 10-2. We got owned by Julian Tavarez. We lost the other 2 games too and I was humiliated.

but May 13, 2006, a day game against the Dodgers, was my most memorable game. Well, most memorable Giants’ game. It was a typical 2006 Giants game against the Dodgers. Lowry was mediocre and the Giants’ offense was worse than mediocre. The only highlight was getting to stand up every time Barry came to bat because he might tie Babe Ruth on the homerun chart. He never did that day. We came to the ninth with the Giants down 5-2 and the Dodgers’ “closer” Danys Baez on the mound. Well, four runs later we left the ballpark happy as Steve Finley, Todd Greene, Lance Niekro, Dan Ortmeier, Omar Vizquel and Willy Aybar (error) contributed to the come from behind win.

My most memorable games are actually A’s games that I went to with my family (1988 ALCS). But I won’t talk about those.

Giants win both ends of the doubleheader vs the Cardinals. The first game goes extra innings with the game tied 3 – 3. Brenly gets a single with one out, Chili Davis follows with a walk. Seats in lower box on first base line. Will Clark walks to the plate. His walk and demeanor tells you, he intends to end the game “right now”. Todd Worrell is on the mound. Clark hits a top spin line drive into the Football seats in right for a 10th inning 3 run, walkoff. Clark also hits a solo shot in the second game, as the Giants sweep the doubleheader 6-3, 5-2.

A cold windy day at the stick.

At Pac Bell Park, versus the Hated Dodgers:

GIANTS 1ST: Benard walked; Aurilia flied to center; Benard was
caught stealing second (catcher to shortstop); Bonds homered;
home run #73;

AWESOME! One of my favorite games ever. Our original game was postponed after 9/11, so we ended up seeing the last game of the season and Bonds’ record setting 73rd homerun. Even sweeter since it was against LA.

We got a picture (on film, no less) of the historic swing, plus a homerun poster from the following year. It’s mounted proudly in my home office.

The Armando Rios walk-off against Wetteland in 2000. That’s still my top live game at PhoneCo.

1989 Game 5 against the Cubs, Will the Thrill back up the middle
1989 Game 3 – The best game that never happened at the Stick. I was 9 also, and I miss that team greately
1994 – Giants come back against Atlanta, score 5 runs in the 9th, and Matt Williams lead off home run in the 15th. Incredible game
1997 – The game before the Beck/Johnson game was a 2-1 victory taht was amazing.
2002 – Bonds into the upper deck at Yankee Stadium, I was sitting in Bleachers section 139. Enemy Territory

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2003/B08190SFN2003.htm
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Bonds hit 10th inning walk-offs in both games. This was right before his dad died.

Also, and I couldn’t find this game, but the game where Bonds nailed a runner at the plate to preserve the tie, then hit the game winning HR in the next half inning. At least, that’s how I remember that game going.

I remember this because I won some call-in contest on KNBR (Question: Who last wore #45 for the Bulls before Michael Jordan) and got tickets for a luxury box at Candlestick. Mark Portugal got the win, Beck the save, and Bonds hit a 2-run HR for the Giants’ only runs in a 2-1 win. But, what I remember most is that the game was only two hours long. Still the only time I’ve ever been in a luxury box for any game and I only got to enjoy it for two freaking hours! I hate you, Mark Portugal.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1995/B05170SFN1995.htm

Jon Miller’s call was the best.

But the recent series out here in Washington, DC I had a blast going to 3/4 games, seeing them sweep Monday night in 104 degree weather with a comeback win. There was an 8th grade trip out from the bay area, everytime I stood up to cheer these two Nats fans would tell me to sit down. I turned around and showed my home Giants jersey to the kids sitting above us and you would here nothing but “Let’s go Giants” for the next 5 minutes. Pretty soon the two fans gave up and moved seats.

I saw Lance Niekro hit a homerun to beat (or tie on the way to beating… who knows?) the Braves a few years ago. A bunch of years before that I saw Rich Aurilia make some ridiculous plays at SS (threw out Giambi… or somebody… at the plate) to beat the A’s. That was awesome.

And watching Bonds break the record was pretty cool. I mean, not as cool as watching Niekro hit, but still pretty cool.

I think other than those two wins, they’ve lost every game I’ve ever been to.

Last Night
Great Game. Had one of those Here-We-Go-Again feelings to it. Especially with Timmy having and off game. I remember watching the radar gun on the first two pitches (both registered at 82 mph) to Bowker and thinking to myself, damn Bowker can not hit an offspeed pitch to save his life. The rest was magic.

July 30, 1990 vs. Reds
Scott Garrelts takes a no-hitter into the ninth only to have Paul O’Niell (gamer) break it up with two outs with a line drive single over the shortstops head. Huge crowd that day and it was loud that inning. Still have the vision of that ball getting scorched over the shortstop (Uribe?)

Bonds hits 756
I don’t care about anybody’s opinion about Bonds. That night was electric. Complete chaos

Durhams HR game against Dodgers last year
An earlier post mentioned this one. Durham as our whipping boy last year hits the go ahead homerun. My brother-in-law, who is a Dodger fan, also went to the game (we didn’t sit together). He told me afterwards he walked out the stadium in disbelief, yelling “F$!kin Durham, WTF!. Good Times

June 18, 1996 – Giants vs. Marlins

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1996/B06180SFN1996.htm

This was actually a pretty terrible game except for the final score. Mark Leiter and Rod Beck combined to blow a 8-1 eighth inning lead with each giving up homeruns to Sheffield. Making it even worse, Dusty had taken Bonds out of the game with the huge lead, replacing him with the immortal Keith Williams. Anyways, the game ended up going 15 innings which was by far the longest game I’d ever been to at the time. Finally, in the 15th with Marvin Benard on 3rd and 2 outs, the Marlins tried to intentionally walk Matt Williams and ended up throwing a wild pitch on the IBB. Benard was clearly out on the play at the plate but I remember it being really hot and it was pretty clear the umpire called him safe just so the game would end.

Also, I didn’t realize this until I looked it up just now, but Jeff Juden got the win with 3 shutout innings in relief. Needless to say, knowing this has scarred all my good memories from this game.

July 3, 2006. Giants were in Denver and so was I. It was the first trip I’d ever made to the state of Colorado, first time I’d ever been a visiting fan of the Giants aside from in Oakland, and I don’t count when I visited Petco because that was the World Baseball Classic. The whole day was like a litany of firsts for me.

Love that ballpark, as someone who’s just sitting in the stands enjoying a game. It’s truly a beautifully built structure, and HUGE. Maybe I’m used to our cozy confines, but wow is Coors Field massive.

The Giants finally get a win at the new park. It was also my first game there.

Giants vs. Expos – 4/29/2000

Woody goes 7 strong, Barry hits one out, and Nen gets the save. After a rough start, the Giants dominate at home and finish with the best record in baseball.

May 1, 2000, against the Mets. Bonds slams the first splash hit in the history of the Phone. Estes over Pulsipher. Seeing the ball go into the water during the dark night was pretty damn exciting, for the first of many times.

I also experienced Kevin Brown’s no-hitter against us at Candlestick in ‘97, a day game. I wrote about this in another thread recently, but the real fun of it was that both Brown and Van Landingham had no hitters going into the 7th inning (although the Giants were down 1-0 before all hell broke loose in the 7th).

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1989/B09040CIN1989.htm

september 4, 1989, reds up 8-0 going into the 7th. my dad turned off the tv (or was it radio? damn you frat days, you make me forget the details!) and left the room. i turn it back on and witness an incredible comeback against the hyped “Nasty Boys” of cinci’s bullpen- charlton, franco, and dibble all contributed to the loss for the reds.

i truly danced with delight.

Its from the Lost Season that was 1996. Maddux finally loses in SF. Bonds goes deep. The starter gives up a 3 run bomb in the 9th yet the Giants held on to win. It felt unreasonably good.

I was incredibly happy to have won that game, yet so sad that my favorite stage for baseball drama was shutting down. For some reason I really had a hard time seeing through to the great new park that was due to open next season.

I, for one, LOVED the Stick. Since that is what I grew up with, it will always be what a Giants game oughta be. The new place is great, but my time capsule of SFG memories always harkens back to my youth. I would love to take my sons to a ballgame at the Stick just so they could understand how badass that place was.

Man, that is WAY deeped than I intended on going.

It was Giants-Expos in San Francisco, the last time the Expos ever visited. Barry hit two homers in the first three pitches he saw – hit them to about the same exact place in right-center – and didn’t see a strike the rest of the night. Jason Schmidt was sick, shutting down the Expos for eight innings, but got hurt in the ninth and Dustin Hermanson blew the lead. In the bottom of the ninth the Giants were putting things together when Kirk Reuter hit a pinch bunt single, setting up JT Snow’s RBI single for the win. Awesome night.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2005/B09160SFN2005.htm

Surprised no one has mentioned 9-16-2005.

Randy Winn and BLB go deep in the first inning and a Magellan walk off single in the bottom of the 9th scoring none other than Doug Clark to defeat the Evils. Place was crazy.

This and the Ray Durham walk off to defeat the A’s mentioned earlier were my fondest memories at the Big Phone.

The Giants lost this one to the Phillies, 6-2, in a Sunday afternoon game. What makes it special for me is it’s the only Bonds home run I’ve seen. We were in lower box 125 on the third base line, just beyond the dugout. As a bonus, Ray also got a dinger, the only other run the Giants scored that day.

And, I took this picture, which is one of my favorites:

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Plus, they stopped the game for a ceremony, which really pissed the Evils off. Then Nen got into trouble in the 9th with a man on 3rd with no out, but then got out of it for the save.

1) Lowry’s complete game win against the Reds, when the Giants homered several times and Noah pitched a shutout.

2) JT’s 3-homer game in Philadelphia in 2004. I remember that it was incredibly clear he was swinging for the fences in his third at-bat.

3) Fun games the Giants lost: I was at this one up until the 9th, which is when my parents decided it was time to leave. No matter what happened after I left, that was a hell of a comeback.

These games are very heavy on Bonds dingers, aren’t they?

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2003/B06230SFN2003.htm

This was huge. Reuter 6 shut out innings, Dodgers score 2 unearned in the 9th.
Bonds leads off in the 11th 2-2 tie, Gagne (this was his unhittable 1.20 ERA .69 WHIP, 55 SV, CY YOUNG year) and is intentionally walked. Bonds steals 2nd for 500, and Santiago drives him home with a single.

Gagne breaks the phone in the bullpen.

1. This game. My birthday. Cain complete game. Bonds homered. Last time I saw Bonds play live.

2. Lincecum debut. He didn’t win, but it sure was exciting. Plus, I sat next to two total hotties the entire game.

Giants beat the Dodgers in 16 innings and took nearly 6 hours to do it; they tied it with 2 in the 9th, had to tie it again with 2 in the 14th. Minton pitched 5 innings in relief to get the win AND scored the game-winning run. Jeff Robinson played right field when the Giants ran out of players, and another pitcher named Randy Bockus was in left. Maldonado somehow ended up playing third. God knows how all that happened with a 40-man roster, but it was an incredible game.

I was on my way to that game, but I totaled my car on 101N in San Mateo, so I never made it. Plus, I didn’t have car insurance and I rear-ended a lawyer…

6/24/1993 at Candlestick

The Rockies make their first ever visit to San Francisco and get obliterated 17-2. Robby Thompson goes 5-5 with two home runs. Clark and Bonds also go deep as John Burkett gets his 11th win.

Of course, that season the Rockies did their best to screw over the Giants (something they seem to do quite often), as they couldn’t even beat the Braves once in 13 tries.

my only trip to Fenway Park. Clemens pitched for the Red Sox. He gave up back to back homers to Pete Incaviglia and Rob Deer in the 2nd inning. He then drilled John Shelby who charged the mound and started a bench clearing brawl. Shelby was the only one ejected. Rookie Mo Vaughn led the comeback for the Sox who overcame the early deficit with a 4-run 7th inning.

so I don’t have much to go on, and I live in Minnesota, so I’ve only seen the Giants once, in 2005 when they came to the Metrodome. But it was a pretty awesome game.

There was about 20 of us that went as a group, me and some friends and my family. Me and my dad were the only Giants fans out of our small selection of people. The only thing I clearly remember was the top of the 9th, Giants leading 6-4. Omar was up, and there was 1 guy on. Omar smashes one of those over-the-wall base-hit thingys to left field. I could not believe it. He hit all of 3 HRs that year, and the one time I got to see the Giants where I live he hit one out. It was great.

Also great: rubbing it in my twins-loving brothers’ face.

Kenny Lofton sending us to the WS is the one game I’ll never ever forget for the rest of time.