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In the first inning, right fielder Elmer Smith hit the first Series grand slam.
Hafner, despite missing the last month of the season, tied the single season grand slam record of six, which was set in by Don Mattingly.
The heavily favored Cubs took an early lead in Game 1, but James Loney's grand slam off Ryan Dempster changed the series ' momentum.
The Rockies also won the second game in Philadelphia, 10 – 5, with the help of Kazuo Matsui's 4th inning grand slam.
Spilborghs hit the first walk-off grand slam in Rockies history, his second career grand slam, and his first walk-off homer in the 14th inning to squeak by the Giants, 6 – 4, Monday in front of about half of the 27, 670 fans who remained at Coors Field.
But with two outs and the bases loaded in the 7th, in a scene eerily similar to the Ryan Spilborghs walk-off, Edgar Rentería hit a go-ahead grand slam off of Rafael Betancourt, propelling the Giants to a 9 – 5 win and a tie in the Wild Card standings entering September.
In addition, late-season call up Jeremy Hermida, a highly-regarded prospect who has been compared to the Atlanta Braves ' Jeff Francoeur, hit a pinch-hit grand slam in his first major-league at-bat and a game-tying two-run homer in the last game of the season.
Without the benefit of spring training, he returned to the Tigers, was again voted to the All-Star Team, and helped lead them to a come-from-behind American League pennant, clinching it with a grand slam home run in the dark — no lights in Sportsman's Park in St. Louis — ninth inning of the final game of the season.
It ended with Greenberg's grand slam on the next pitch, clinching Hal Newhouser's 25th victory of the season.
Trailing by a score of 6-1, Lance Berkman hit an eighth inning grand slam to narrow the score to 6-5.
Oddly enough, a fan in the " Crawford Boxes " in left field had previously caught Berkman's grand slam and this same fan caught Burke's home run.
That night, Carlos Lee hit a towering walk-off grand slam in the eleventh inning.
Lee later quipped to the newsmedia that " he had hit a walk-off grand slam and he got second billing ", considering Biggio's achievement.
He hit a grand slam in that night's game which broke a 3 – 3 tie and led to an Astros win.
The Brewers lost game 2 of the NLDS due to ace CC Sabathia giving up a grand slam early in the game, leaving after 3 and 2 / 3 innings ( his shortest and last outing as a Brewer ).
Smith finished his career with distinctions ranging from the accumulation of more than 27. 5 million votes in All-Star balloting, to holding the record for the most MLB at-bats without hitting a grand slam.
He also is the only player to have hit a walk-off inside-the-park grand slam.
The old structure of the grand slam was the U. S. Open, British Open, U. S. Amateur, and British Amateur.
The most memorable moment of that 1978 season occurred on May 28, 1978, when pinch hitter Mike Ivie, acquired from the San Diego Padres during the offseason for Darrel Thomas, hit a towering grand slam off of Dodgers pitching ace Don Sutton in front of Candlestick Park's highest paid attendance of 58, 545.
In Game 5, eventual 1989 NLCS MVP Will Clark ( who hit. 650, drove in eight runs, including a grand slam off Greg Maddux in Game 1 ) came through in the clutch with a bases-loaded single off of the hard-throwing Mitch Williams to break a 1 – 1 tie in the bottom of the eighth inning.
In game 2 Cruz also became the first player in postseason history to win a game with a walk-off grand slam as the Rangers defeated the Tigers 7-3 in 11 innings.
Grand Slam, grand slam, or grandslam may refer to:

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I'm talking about the grand manner of the Liberal -- North and South -- who is not affected personally.
For those who need or want and can afford another car, buying one and driving it on the grand tour, then shipping it home, is one popular plan for a do-it-yourself pilgrimage.
The Arc de Triomphe is the linchpin of the historic axis ( Axe historique ) – a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route which goes from the courtyard of the Louvre, to the Grande Arche de la Défense.
His importance is proven once more by the grand funeral given to him by his people: his funeral at sea with many weapons and treasures shows he was a great soldier and an even greater leader to his people.
If so, this is arguably insider dealing on a grand scale with the benefit of inside specialist knowledge of the business and resources of the firm not shared with outsiders like politicians and members ( and, perhaps, regulators ).
Its style is clearly reflective of the mature Haydn and Mozart, and its instrumentation gave it a weight that had not yet been felt in the grand opera.
The term " conspiracy theory " is used to indicate a narrative genre that includes a broad selection of ( not necessarily related ) arguments for the existence of grand conspiracies.
It is derived from grand hazard, and both can be considered a variant of sic bo, a popular casino game, although chuck-a-luck is more of a carnival game than a true casino game.
It is not until the 13th-century French prose romances, including the Lancelot-Grail and the Post-Vulgate Cycle, that Camelot began to supersede Caerleon, and even then, many descriptive details applied to Camelot derive from Geoffrey's earlier grand depiction of the Welsh town.
In Germany, Beatty had ruined his reputation when he told the crews of his ships that were receiving the German High Seas Fleet for its internment at Scapa Flow, " Don't forget that the enemy is a despicable beast ," and arranged the surrender of the German Fleet as a grand spectacle of humiliation.
In support of this, Erasmus states: “ Anyone who looks closely at the inward nature and essence will find that nobody is further from true wisdom than those people with their grand titles, learned bonnets, splendid sashes and bejeweled rings, who profess to be wisdom ’ s peak ”.
Leonora ( 1846 ) by William Henry Fry, the first European-styled " grand " opera composed in the United States of America, is based on Bulwer-Lytton's play The Lady of Lyons, as is Frederic Cowen's first opera Pauline ( 1876 ).
The chicanes at turns 11 and 12 is considerably more open than that used in the grand prix, using the escape roads.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Most Wanted Terrorists is a list of persons who have been indicted ( formally accused ) by sitting Federal grand juries in the United States district courts, for alleged crimes of terrorism.
Like a grand jury, FISC is not an adversarial court: the federal government is the only party to its proceedings.
* The grand seal of Harvard University inside Memorial Church is flanked by two inward-pointing fasces.
New World's budget breakdown for Godzilla 1985 is as follows: $ 500, 000 to lease the film from Toho, $ 200, 000 for filming the new scenes and other revisions, and $ 2, 500, 000 for prints and advertising, adding up to a grand total of approximately $ 3, 200, 000.
A galaxy with poorly defined arms is sometimes referred to as a flocculent spiral galaxy ; in contrast to the grand design spiral galaxy that has prominent and well-defined spiral arms.
The new particles predicted by models of grand unification cannot be observed directly at particle colliders because their masses are expected to be of the order of the so-called GUT scale, which is predicted to be just a few orders of magnitude below the Planck scale and thus far beyond the reach of currently foreseen collision experiments.
Due to this difficulty, and due to the lack of any observed effect of grand unification so far, there is no generally accepted GUT model.
A grand jury is a type of jury that determines whether a criminal indictment will be issued.
A grand jury is so named because it has a greater number of jurors than a trial jury ( also known as a petit jury, from the French for small ).

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