Top 10 Baseball Moments

Good topic for a holiday weekend.

Here are my top 10 baseball moments (regular season only). These are games I saw on TV or Radio as opposed to at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull or the Copa.

Arranged Chronologically:

1. Tigers go 35-5 (1984). We will not see this again.

2. Morris throws a No-Hitter (4-7-84): The signature moment of the 35-5 start.

3. The Sandberg Game (June 23, 1984): A third moment from 1984?? Bruce Sutter was unhittable. Sandberg hit 2 game tying homers off Sutter in a comeback. This was a signature moment for the 1984 Cubs. Then came Garvey...

4. Mets: 16 Braves: 13 (7-4-85 and 7-5-85): A marathon in the rain. 19 innings! Atlanta scored 4 in the 8th to take the lead. Mets tied in the 9th. Keith Hernandez went 4 for 10 and hit for the cycle. Each team scored twice in the 13th. Mets took the lead in the top of the 18th. Pitcher Rick Camp hit an 18th inning homer to tie the game. New York scored 5 in the 19th. Atlanta scored twice and had the tying runs on when Ron Darling struck out Rick Camp to end it. A postgame fireworks show followed...at 4am. A fan summed it up best with a sign "What the Hell is going on?"

5. Pete Rose gets hit 4192 (9-11-85): 1985 was the year of the milestone and Rose finally passed Cobb. Amazing for a guy people said had no talent. If you google, Pete Rose and 4192, a billion sites pop up hocking memorabilia and autographs. Who wants that honey, Pete needs money. (Smashing Pumpkins reference there!)

6. Bob Horner hits 4 home runs in a game (7-6-86): and we saw it on tape delay...Ted Turner's idiotic Goodwill Games (designed to end the Cold War and bring peace and harmony to the universe) preempted the game's normal start time.

7. The Comeback: Detroit: 1 Blue Jays: 0 (October 4, 1987):The Tigers trailed the Toronto Blue Jays by 3 1/2 with a week to go. Kirk Gibson hit a dramatic homer off Tom Henke in Toronto to propel the Tigers to a comeback. Detroit did not lose another game until the LCS. Toronto did not win another game that season. The comeback was capped by Frank Tanana's 1-0 victory on the season's final day. Larry Herndon's 2nd inning homer off Jimmy Key was the game's only score.

8. Nolan Ryan. I don't know where to start...No hitter #5 (1981), #7 (1991), Strikeout #4000 (Danny Heap of the Mets), the now legendary pummeling of Robin Ventura...

9. Ripken passes Gehrig (9-6-95) : This was a night. Ripken passed Lou Gehrig, the number was unveiled on the warehouse, Cal hit a homer, he did a victory lap around the field. Bill Clinton showed up, but who cares? Joe Dimaggio was there!

10. Craig Biggio's 3000th Hit (6-28-07): Biggio is known for his messy helmet, being an all-star at two positions, and for being a hard nosed player. He played the game the way it should be played. He singled for hit 3000 and was thrown out trying to stretch it into a double. He finished the game with 5 hits and helped the Astros to a win. After the hit, Biggio called longtime team mate Jeff Bagwell out to share his moment.