Best ballpark moments

[Paladin Cecil]

What would you consider the number one moment in each ballpark?

 

My choices are:

Current:

Oriole Park at Camden Yards: Cal Ripken Jr.'s 2,131st consecutive game played

Fenway Park: Game 6 of the '75 World Series

New Comiskey Park: Game 2 of the '05 A.L.C.S.

Jacobs Field: Game 4 of the '97 A.L.D.S. (although game 2 of the '07 A.L.D.S. isn't far behind)

Comerica Park: Game 4 of the '06 A.L.C.S.

Kauffman Stadium: Game 6 of the '85 World Series

Angel Stadium of Anaheim: Game 6 of the '86 A.L.C.S.

Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome: Game 7 of the '91 World Series

Yankee Stadium: (as tough as this one is to decide) Don Larsen's perfect game

Oakland Coliseum: Rickey Henderson's 939th stolen base

$afeco Field: Ichiro's 257th and 258th hits of the 2004 season

Tropicana Field: Wade Boggs's 3,000th hit

Rangers Ballpark In Arlington: Sammy Sosa's 600th home run

SkyDome: Game 6 of the '93 World Series

Cha$e Field: Game 7 of the 01 World Series

Turner Field: Game 6 of the '99 N.L.C.S.

Wrigley Field: Babe Ruth's called shot

Great American Ballpark: Sammy Sosa's 500th home run

Coor$ Field: 2007 1-game play-off

Dolphin Stadium: Game 7 of the '97 World Series

Minute Maid Park: Game 4 of the '05 N.L.D.S.

Dodger Stadium: Game 1 of the '88 World Series

Miller Park: '02 All-Star Game (as much as I don't like to think about it)

Shea Stadium: Game 6 of the '86 World Series

Citizen's Bank Park: 2007 N.L. East clincher

PNC Park: '06 All-Star Game

New Busch Stadium: Game 5 of the 2006 World Series

Petco Park: Trevor Hoffman breaking the all-time saves record

AT&T Park: (that's not Barry Bonds-related) Game 5 of the '02 N.L.C.S.

Nationals Park (or whatever lame-@$$ business they end up naming the ballpark after): N/A

 

Past ballparks (of what I can think of off the top of my head):

Old Comiskey Park: '33 All-Star Game

Kingdome: Game 5 of the '95 A.L.D.S.

Arlington Stadium: Nolan Ryan's 7th no-hitter

Exhibition Stadium: Phil Niekro's 300th win

Atlanta Fulton-County Stadium: Hank Aaron's 715th

Cinergy Field: Pete Rose's 4,192nd hit

Astrodome: Game 6 of the '86 N.L.C.S.

Milwaukee County Stadium:

Veterans Stadium: Game 6 of the '80 World Series

Jack Murphy Stadium: Game 4 of the '84 N.L.C.S.

Polo Grounds: Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard Round the World

RFK Stadium: 2005 Nationals home opener

[Guest]

Oakland Coliseum: Rickey Henderson's 939th stolen base

 

The A's winning their 20th straight game against the Royals in 2002. It was the largest regular season baseball crowd in the history of the stadium and 2nd largest ever - one of the playoff games against the Yankees had about 1000 more people. And this isn't just because they won the game but because of how they won it - holding an 11-0 lead after 3 innings, blowing it including giving up the tying run in the top of the ninth, and winning it on a walk off HR in the bottom of the ninth.

[UMFan83]

You don't think Game 2 of the 2005 World Series when Paul Konerko hit the game tying grand slam and Scott Podsednik hit the game winning HR wasn't the biggest moment in USCF? Or are we pretending the 2005 World Series didn't happen?

[Paladin Cecil]

Konerko's home run didn't tie it. It gave the White Sox a 2-run lead and the Jose Vizcaino tied the game in the 9th, which set the stage for Podsednik's heroics.

That game is a good choice, though. But the reason why I chose game 2 of the '05 ALCS is because of what happened in the 9th inning, which set the stage for the rest of the series and had they not called it a wild pitch, the Angels might've taken a two games to none lead.