Game Winning Grand Slams?

[LarrySC]

Any way to get a list of players that have hit a GW GS? Doesn't matter the number of outs or whether his team was either tied or trailing by 1,2 or 3 runs....just that he hit it in the bottome of an inning (9th or after).

I seem to remember either The Sporting News or maybe Baseball Digest did an article years ago about the "ULTIMATE GAME WINNING HOME RUN" that showed players that had hit a GW GS with their team trailing by 3 runs in the bottom of an inning. I think Cal Ripken was one of those players on the list.

Help please?

[Go Bravos!!!#1]

This should help some...
Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_off_home_run)

[csh19792001]

Any way to get a list of players that have hit a GW GS? Doesn't matter the number of outs or whether his team was either tied or trailing by 1,2 or 3 runs....just that he hit it in the bottome of an inning (9th or after).

I seem to remember either The Sporting News or maybe Baseball Digest did an article years ago about the "ULTIMATE GAME WINNING HOME RUN" that showed players that had hit a GW GS with their team trailing by 3 runs in the bottom of an inning. I think Cal Ripken was one of those players on the list.

Help please?

You'll really enjoy this. Ran across it at BaseballLibrary.com a couple years ago.

Link (http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/features/experts/06_27_01.stm)

Q: Who are the players that have hit game-winning grand slams in the bottom of the ninth?
-- Kathy Berndt

A: From the minute they first pick up a bat, kids dream about stepping to the plate in the bottom of the ninth, with the bases loaded and their team down by three, and cranking the game-winning home run. Players rarely ever get such an opportunity for a one-run victory, much less capitalize on it. There have been only 21 grand slams of this variety, called "ultimate" grand slams, in major league history. Here is the complete list:

» September 9, 1881 -- Roger Connor
» September 24, 1925 -- Babe Ruth
» May 23, 1936 -- Sammy Byrd
» July 8, 1950 -- Jack Phillips
» June 16, 1952 -- Bobby Thomson
» July 15, 1952 -- Eddie Joost
» September 11, 1955 -- Del Crandall
» May 11, 1956 -- Danny Kravitz
» July 25, 1956 -- Roberto Clemente
» August 31, 1963 -- Ellis Burton
» August 2, 1970 -- Tony Taylor
» August 11, 1970 -- Carl Taylor
» April 22, 1973 -- Ron Lolich
» May 1, 1979 -- Roger Freed
» April 13, 1983 -- Bo Diaz
» August 31, 1984 -- Buddy Bell
» April 13, 1985 -- Phil Bradley
» August 29, 1986 -- Dick Schofield
» June 21, 1988 -- Alan Trammell
» May 17, 1996 -- Chris Hoiles

Addendum:
May 17th, 2002
After the Twins score three times in the top of the 14th, the Yankees come back to win, 13–12, on Jason Giambi's one-out grand slam, hitting the first pitch from reliever Mike Trombley over the RF fence. It is the 21st time in history that a player has hit a game–winning grand slam -- the ultimate grand slam -- with his team down by three runs. Babe Ruth, in 1925, was the only previous Yankee to have performed the feat.

[Sberl]

There's also David Eckstein...August 7 2005, Braves at Cards if I remember well.

[csh19792001]

There's also David Eckstein...August 7 2005, Braves at Cards if I remember well.

Really? Of all people....

Gotta love irony in practice. :o

Edit: They weren't down by three when he hit his jack. :)

[Go Bravos!!!#1]

I saw that game, I believe they were down by two.

[Pghfan987]

I also recall Brian Giles hitting a grand slam to win it in the ninth a few years back.

The Pirates were down by 5 runs entering the bottom of the ninth. They got all of their offense with two outs and no one on. They got some baserunners, and when Jason Kendall came to the plate representing the tying run, the Astros sent Billy Wagner to the hill to close the deal. He hit Kendall with his first pitch. Giles came to the plate with the bases loaded, down by three, representing the winning run, and win it he did!

I was listening to the game on the radio. Out of disgust, I shut the game off just before the ninth. Then, out of a hunch, I turned the radio back on, perhaps to catch the postgame report. I turned it on when Kendall was coming to the plate.

Mark

[Sberl]

Yes, by two...I saw that game too!
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=250807124

[Sultan_1895-1948]

Technically a game winner, but also had another impact.

July 18, 1919, in the top of the ninth against Cleveland, and the Sox down 7-4, Babe hit his second HR of the game. It was a granny to put the Sox up 8-7 for the win. This homer apparently pissed off the Cleveland owner so bad, that he replaced his current manager with Tris Speaker. Probably an unintentional intentional walk where the pitcher just wasn't "careful" enough, lol.

[GiambiJuice]

Didn't Robin Ventura hit his famous walk-off "grand slam single" to win a playoff game for the Mets?

[csh19792001]

Didn't Robin Ventura hit his famous walk-off "grand slam single" to win a playoff game for the Mets?

Kind of uncanny, actually, when I think of Ventura, "grand slam" immediately comes to mind. The number of grand slams (18) he hit given his career homeruns (294) is uncanny.

Career Grand Slams:
Lou Gehrig-23
Manny Ramirez-20
Eddie Murray-19
Willie McCovey-18
Robin Ventura-18
Jimmie Foxx- 17
Ted Williams- 17
Hank Aaron- 16
Dave Kingman- 16
Babe Ruth- 16