Whats the rarest baseball thing you've seen in person?

[DWoofer]

I once saw Chuckie take on 2-0.

[8brewcrew]

Just glancing through the post so far and I haven't seen anyone mention the 4 HR game by Shawn Green of the Dodgers in Miller Park back in 2002. I wasn't there but there must have been someone at this game on this forum.

 

This isn't really that rare but I was at the game back in County Stadium when McGwire hit the top of the fence to just miss a HR in his record breaking year. Almost saw history that day. I'm pretty sure the entire stadium was hoping it would be ruled a HR.

 

Also, I gave up my ticket to the final game back in 2008 when CC pitched a complete game to put the Brewers in the playoffs. I gave my friend the ticket because I wanted to stay home to watch the Packers game. I consider a much bigger Packers fan than Brewers but that was one of the stupidest things I've ever done. Doesn't help that the Pack lost that game to the Buccaneers too.

[SunGrasses]

I really don't know how rare it is, but I've never seen it before. I saw a catcher make an unassisted double play at third base.

 

The catcher: Jonathan Lucroy

 

Date: August 2, 2009. Huntsville Stars vs. Jacksonville Suns

 

Here's a video of it:

 

[RightFieldCoder]

What's amazing is what I haven't seen. Out of all of the games I've seen in person, watched on TV, or listened to on radio, I've never seen a triple play or watched more than the final out of a no hitter.

[Dmiles23]

If anyone gets ESPN the Magazine, look on the last page and they have a little graphic about chances of seeing a rare sports milestone. I'll list some of the MLB ones:

 

1 in 11- Extra Innings

1 in 326- Triple Play

1 in 702- Hit for the Cycle

1 in 806- No-Hitter

1 in 2,610- Six-Plus Hits in a Nine-Inning Game

1 in 10,287- Perfect Game

1 in 12,492- Unassisted Triple Play

1 in 13,453- Four Home Run Game

[dragoon84]

The rarest thing I've seen at a baseball game is a relief pitcher hitting a pinch hit home run. Brooks Kieschnick against the Atlanta Braves off of Jung Bong on August 6, 2003. Oddly enough, Royce Clayton of all people had a four hit game that night as well.

 

I'm so glad that this franchise is long past the need for people like Royce *shudder* Clayton.

[8brewcrew]

On second thought, the most rare thing I've ever seen in person was when the Crew scored 10 runs in one inning back on the final game of the 2001 season. They beat the eventual World Series champs, the D-Backs. Don't know how rare that is but I can't imagine it happens that often.

[Ranier]

I once saw Chuckie take on 2-0.

Maybe, but not on 3-0

[Klements Bratwurst]

I saw Chris Capuano pitch in 2010 for the Brewers sometime a long, long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far, away.....

[InsomniacInkRoss]

8/29/2002 - Mark Bellhorn becomes first NL player to homer from both sides of the plate in same inning. (done only one other time, by Carlos Baerga in 1993)

This one takes the cake. Did you realize it when it happened?

 

Also, I know it's happened 3 times, no one was at a Brewers game where they left no runners on base? Sorry I don't have dates.

 

The Bobby Witt pitching line could be the greatest pitching line I have ever seen... 5IP 0H 2R 2ER 8BB 10K

 

I am thinking about flying to Florida to see Arizona get franchise win #1000!

[MNBrew]

Not rare but unique: Carl Yastrzemski's last game at County Stadium (1983, I believe).

 

Actually, I think I was at his last 2 games at CS. There may have been a rainout or a doubleheader involved, but those memories are more than a little fuzzy. Consulting my ticket stub archive would take more digging than it's worth.

[JohnBriggs12]

Cooper and Money hitting grand slams in the same inning.

All 5 home post season wins in 82 (my sister went to the WS game 3 that the Brewers lost).

Hank Aaron night.

I was there the for the 2 grand slams in one inning as well. I almost forgot about that. But it couldn't top a walk off grand slam that was nullified after an argument.

[JohnBriggs12]

I saw:

 

Cecil Cooper hit 3 Hrs -- which was also the last game Thurman Munson caught

Chris Saenz's start.

I had to look it up, but you're right that was the last game Munson caught. That was a Friday night opener of an extremely memorable series.. He died the following Thursday and played 1B and DH in games after that.

 

I was there that night as well. In addition to Coop's 3 HR, the last of which was a walk off against Goose Gossage, that was the game where Reggie Jackson went after Mike Caldwell and was ejected. That may have been my favorite Brewer game of all time. I sat in the upper deck boxes next to a die hard Yankee fan in town for the series and had a great view of the ball Cooper hit to the bullpen to win the game.

 

I also saw Ben Oglivie hit 3 in one game against his former team the Tigers just a few weeks earlier.

 

I was very irritated that earlier in the year the Brewers had fans vote for the most memorable moment of the 1970s and they left off the ballot that Coop 3 HR game against the hated Yankees. I would have voted that number 1.

 

Incredibly, FTJ, I saw the Saenz game as well.

[pitchleague]

"He died the following Thursday and played 1B and DH in games after that."

 

I don't think you meant to say it this way, but the way it reads it made me chuckle a bit, even though Munson was a heck of a guy.

[Lurker II]

I'll just go with this.

 

June 2, 2007 - Chris Capuano homer. 1/1...ha

I also was at June 19,

2008, Prince hit an inside the parker and 2 days earlier when Craig

Counsell hit a homer.

[Baldkin]

Hawing, in another thread, reminded me that I was Shawn Green's 19 total base game... the MLB Record. I remember my dad getting extremely mad when they pitched to him his last AB (where he hit a HR) and passed Joe Adcock's 48 year old record of 18 Total bases in a game.

[The Truth]

I saw Mark "The Bird" Fidrych start for the Tigers vs Baltimore at Memorial Stadium in 1976. "The Bird" was pretty rare. What a character...

 

I also saw a very bloody brawl between the Cubs and Cardinals in the early 80's

[TJseven]

Was there for the twins tigers play in game last year. Headed out there for the monday night football game between for the packers and vikings and while in the parking lot for the MNF game I said, wait the twins and tigers have their play in game tomorrow. Can you guys skip work/school tomorrow?

 

Walk off single, in extra innings, of a playoff play in game, in the final regular season game in that stadium, which set an attendence record. I'm going to have to go to a few before I beat that. All the way home on the radio hearing that it was one of the top 50 games in recent baseball history. Good game to go to on a whim. :-)

[sdcheezhd]

Coming late to this since we've been out of the country for 25 days.

 

1. Nieves no-hitter at Memorial Stadium. My brother and I were in the first row behind the Orioles' dugout in Brewer hats and we made the broadcast back to Milwaukee and the 1987 highlight video. It poured rain on the way up from DC and we almost turned back.

 

2. Brewers first playoff win in Yankee Stadium, 1981. Molitor won in it the 8th after Fingers blew a long save in the 7th but finished for the win (whatever happened to the 6 and 9 out save?) Saw #2 the next day - Brewers won 2-1 on 4 hits behind Vuckovich and Fingers. Then saw Reggie win it for the Yanks the next night before getting robbed at gunpoint on W. 68th St. on my 25th birthday.

 

3. Bellhorn's switch hit grand slams in 2002, my first game ever at Miller Park. Sexson had a GS in the 9th and the Brewers got the tying run up after being down 10-0.

 

4. Bat Day 1970 when the guy who'd been on the scoreboard all summer came down since they drew 44K. My first Brewer game ever. Walton tied it with a 3 run double in the 8th and and Gus Gil won it in the 9th.

 

5. Mike Caldwell giving up 4 HRs in an inning in Fenway on Memorial Day 1980 after the Brewers staked him to an 8-1 lead - they then beat up ex-Brewer Skip Lockwood and won 19-8 which was their record for runs scored until they got 20 in 1990.

 

6. The Brewers giving up 6 in the 9th and 5 in the 10th to lose 11-6 and get swept in a DH by the Orioles in the mid-70s. Still remember them playing the washerwoman jig as Irish Tom Murphy trotted out to blow the save.

 

Saw Braun's 1st AB, hit, run, HR etc. in San Diego in 2007 also.

[Vgmastr]

One thing I haven't seen mentioned, I saw Brian Shouse pitch three perfect innings to get a save in a blowout in Minnesota. A LOOGY getting a three inning save has to be pretty rare. Also in that game, Johnny Estrada actually threw out a baserunner trying to steal, which was rare in itself.

[ilovebeer]

I have seem 2 triple plays vs Toronto and the Giants.

[SoCal Brew Crew Fan]

I saw the National League beat the American League in an all-star game with the Brewers as part of the National League.

[Baldkin]

I was at this game:

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN200609300.shtml

 

In which Brian Shouse came in. Faced one batter. IBB'd him. And got the loss.

[ilovebeer]

I was at Robin's 3000 hit game, I saw Robin's 3001 hit in Baltimore. I was at the game when Jim Ganter was taken out by Marcus Lawler at 2nd base and was sitting near where the players wife go down to clubhouse area and saw Jim gantners family walking and ans staring at the field. Was at Nolan Ryans big game. also, i was at game 4 and 5 alcs and game 4 and 5 of world series, Went to the parade after the lost in 1982. OH, just at Steve Wooddard 1 hitter.

[BillyRed]

2 weeks ago I attended a Cleveland Indians game where catcher Mark Redman was thrown out at 1st base with the bases loaded on a 1 hop liner to right field. I had never seen that before in a major league game. Little League yes, Majors no. l was also at both Robin Yount's 3000th hit and Nolan Ryan's 300th win.