What is a game you attended that you look back on and think "Wow I was at that game"?

[Galileo77]

[QUOTE=SaveMeTheGum;19941982]He didn't play in that game. He retired after the 1968 season.[/QUOTE

i just called my best friend who i went to all the Yankee games with and who is a crazy Yankee fan and he said it was his last game at Yankee stadium not Mickey Mantle Day as you correctly said. i apologize i mixed the dates up you are correct when Mickey Mantle Day came he was retired. but i will never forget how the fans loved him and that day

[stevebay]

All from SF:
1) Bonds 71st (not technically at the game, but outside on my inflatable boat at McCovey Cove trying to catch the historic ball)
2) Bonds 500th HR
3) Maddux's 300th Win

[Trueblue]

2009 WBC Final

[JoshMN]

Halladay's playoff no-hitter against the Reds.

[corndog]

I have had this program, newspaper cutout and ticket stub for 52 years now. At the end of the 1973 season, Hank Aaron was approaching Babe Ruth's all-time home run record of 714. The Atlanta Braves were in Houston to play the Astros in a weekend two game homestand and my Dad got both of us tickets for both games. We got to see him hit #712 on Saturday night and he didn't play on Sunday. I remember there being a million flashbulbs going off with every swing. We didn't bring a camera - we just watched! It's easily one of my most vivid sports memories! In the Sunday game, the Astros were destroyed 10-2 but we got to see Don Wilson pitch for the Astros. Wilson died a little over a year later along with his son.

Thankful that my Dad took the time to take me as a kid.

[wawazat]

Bill Pulsipher on September 12, 1994, threw a no-hitter in the Eastern League playoffs against my hometown Harrisburg Senators, leading the Binghamton Mets to the playoffs and a championship. This was the first no-hitter in Eastern League playoff history.

More recently, I took my son to see the Marlins take on the Dodgers towards the end of last season and we saw Shohei Ohtani's 50/50 game.

[babyfaceposey]

May 8, 2012. Texas vs Baltimore for my sons birthday. Josh Hamilton hit 4 homeruns and missed another by less than a foot.

[Cactuspies]

was at the red sox game the day Ted Williams passed.
was at yankee stadium on 9/9/01 for the 1st time to see a sox/yanks brawl. horrible game for the sox, but less than 2 days later still sticks and what might have been if we or the a-holes in the planes picked different days

[hammertime]

Originally Posted by chilly55

I was able to attend the 1982 Cracker Jacks Old Timers game at RFK as a 16 yr old. I forget who won, but definitely remember Luke Appling (age 75) homering off of Warren Spahn. That game had the most HOF'ers playing at one time that I ever attended.

That's amazing! I watch that HR on YouTube all the time.

[NYBBFAN]

I was at the game where A-Rod ran across the pitcher’s mound between innings. Sounds stupid, but Dallas Braden was big mad. Multiple media outlets wrote stories about this.

https://www.espn.com/new-york/mlb/news/story?id=5131115

[kordell1]

Not me, but my sister went to a Rangers game when she was a teenager with some friends. When she got home, she said she thought something was going on because people seemed excited.

The game was Kenny Rogers perfect game. She understands the rarity now, but as a kid she had no idea.

[Ewing33]

Miggy vs Mo

Best at bat I’ve ever seen live


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-YLhi5jZhQ

[Tastybrisket10]

Weirdness factor - I went to the Rangers Astros game where the Astros threw two immaculate innings in the same game.

[ledgewerx]

Two games stand out for me.

Terry Mulholland's no hitter in 1990. I am a lifelong Phillies fan from South Jersey. I was in the navy at the time and my ship was in drydock in the Philly shipyard. Admission to the game was 1 dollar with military ID. I hit a ton of Phillies games that summer.

The 2nd was Joe Montana's last game. It was a wild card against the Dolphins in Miami and I was working security for the game. I was on the sideline about 10 feet away from the 20 yard marker.

[TFP]

In no particular order...

2016 World Series Game 6 & 7
2002 World Series Game 6
1992 Pedro Martinez MLB Debut

Have the Pedro ticket signed and framed with the box score...

https://www.instagram.com/p/CI3nWZJHy6v/

[gomiamigo]

I was at 1983 Phils playoff win over the Dodgers but that's not it.

In the late 1990s, my best friend and I went to a summer game at the Vet, sat in upper deck, centerfield. If you went to any of these awful all-purpose 70s bowls, the players looked like ants from our seats, about a mile away. But tickets were $3 or whatever.

The immortal Omar Daal was pitching for the Phils. He was facing 2nd year skinny Andruw Jones. Maybe 170lb soaking wet at the time.

And Jones gets a hold of one, and it starts rising, and rising, and it's a clear bomb, but it keeps getting closer to us, and closer, coming right for us, and shockingly lands in the upper friggin' deck at the Vet, a bit in front of our seats.

Here's the list of players that did that in Vet history: Schmidt, Luzinski, Stargell, Bench. Each did it once and Greg Luzinski 2x.

And then Andruw Jones.

Nobody did it after him. It's one of the greatest things I've ever seen in pro sports. Think of all the at-bats at the Vet over 33 years and only 5 guys did that.


*My other fave Phils memory is a 2nd week game of the season, on a Wed lunchtime special, Schilling vs Maddux. Phils won 1-0 in 1 hour 51 minutes. Started at 12:35 done at 2:26.

People who arrived 15 minutes late were shocked to find the Phils finishing up their bats in the bottom of the 3rd, it was hilarious. Schilling went the distance.

[jduds]

The only game I've been at that has had any real historical importance was Greg Maddux's breaking of the National League record for most innings without a walk. It's a very low-tier record, but Topps did a Turn Back the Clock auto for it that is one of my favorite cards in my collection.

[TBTC Baseball]

Originally Posted by TFP

In no particular order...

2016 World Series Game 6 & 7

There is some amazing historical games experienced by board members listed, but this is the one I am most envious of. Although my reaction to that game is not something I would have wanted to be seen in public

[jackwesq]

Game 1 of 2024 World Series.

[FTLFTL]

Second game of a true doubleheader and it went 14(!) innings. Bret Saberhagen went 10 shutout innings for the Mets. Tony Gwynn broke the shutout with a leadoff homer in the 14th off Mike Maddux, Mets ended up losing in 14. I kept book for both games and made my dad buy a third scorecard so I could keep book once it went past the 10th. Mets (somehow) had enough players to have a PH and a PR in the 14th inning. I guess bullpens were a lot smaller then.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/b...99407152.shtml

[jetershelmet]

I was there to witness Derek Jeter's storybook ending in his last home game

[Chrominator]

On July 8, 1994, Alex Rodriguez debuted in the major leagues as a starting shortstop against the Red Sox at Fenway, and I was there.

[larry25]

I saw Barry Bonds' only ever HR at the old Yankee Stadium. It was the hardest and farthest ball I have ever seen hit. It was still going up when it landed in the upper deck.

[FTLFTL]

Originally Posted by larry25

I saw Barry Bonds' only ever HR at the old Yankee Stadium. It was the hardest and farthest ball I have ever seen hit. It was still going up when it landed in the upper deck.

I "saw" Bonds hit a home run at Three Rivers. Saw is in quotation marks because I was watching the game, heard the contact, but couldn't find the ball because he hit it so hard, then heard the ball the concrete wall behind the OF wall and watched it roll back almost to the infield. Exit velocity was ridiculous. With the advances in medical science/nutrition and analytics, I'm not sure he'd make an out if he played today.

[dayrider1973]

I was at Pirates and Astros 7/12/97. This was a 10 inning combined no-hitter by the Pirates. I can't recall the reasons but the stadium had 44,000 fans in it that night and the place was shaking.

On a different note, I had tickets to go to the game that Ripken sat for the first time but can't recall why we didn't go. It was a shock turning on TV and seeing he was sitting.