The Rockies won, 9 – 2, with Andy Benes on the mound for the Diamondbacks, and Travis Lee being the first player to hit, score, homer and drive in a run.

After a down-to-the-wire Wild Card chase with the San Francisco Giants, Chicago and San Francisco ended the regular season tied, and thus squared off in a one game playoff at Wrigley Field in which third baseman Gary Gaetti hit the eventual game winning homer.

That run died when Preston Wilson hit a three run walk off homer off of closer Tom " Flash " Gordon, which halted the team's momentum.

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.

Rockies Chris Iannetta and Seth Smith each hit 3-run home runs off of closer Ryan Franklin, with Smith's homer being a walk-off home run.

Jeff Conine hit Florida's first homer before a crowd of 6, 696 at the Cocoa Expo Sports Complex.

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.

* Cody Ross ( 2006 – 2010 ) — Ross had a three homer game in his first season with the Marlins and in his five years with the Marlins hit. 265 with 80 home runs and 297 RBIs.

On September 19, 1937, he hit the first-ever homer into the center field bleachers at Yankee Stadium.

He has also homered in The Ballpark at Disney's Wide World of Sports, near Orlando, Florida, a usually minor-league and Spring Training park that hosted a regular season series between the Rangers and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in May 2007, although he did not hit a homer at the two regular season games the Cubs played at the Tokyo Dome in 2000 vs. the Mets.

Morgan hit a homer against the Dodgers on the final day of the season to make sure Atlanta won the NL West.

Lincecum outdueled Cliff Lee in an every-pitch-matters matchup that was scoreless until Edgar Rentería hit a stunning three-run homer with two outs in the seventh inning.

Melky Cabrera was named the Most Valuable Player of the All-Star Game after delivering a first-inning hit off the Tigers ' Justin Verlander, followed by a game-breaking, two-run homer in the fourth inning off Matt Harrison of the Rangers.

Houston Astros pitcher Gustavo Chacin hit a solo homer in his only at-bat in 2010.

In April, he hit. 244 with one homer ( on April 30 ) and nine RBIs.

Another Mantle homer, hit right-handed off Chuck Stobbs at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D. C. on April 17, 1953, was measured by Yankees traveling secretary Red Patterson ( hence the term " tape-measure home run ") to have traveled 565 feet ( 172 m ).

Leading the A's to a four-game sweep over the San Francisco Giants and the franchise's first World Series title since 1974, Henderson hit. 474 with an. 895 slugging average ( including two triples and a homer ), while stealing three more bases.

In the fifth and final game of the 1976 American League Championship Series, Brett hit a three-run homer in the top of the eighth inning to tie the score at six — only to see the Yankees ' Chris Chambliss launch a solo shot in the bottom of the ninth to give the Yankees a 7 – 6 win.

Was famous as first player ( with Indians in 1920 ) to hit grand slam homer in World Series.

After Cleveland scored four times in the bottom of the eighth to take a 7 – 3 lead, Boston countered with a run and Coumbe was brought in to face Ruth with the bases loaded, who hit his second homer of the game, as the Sox went on to win, 8 – 7.

It was off this Plexiglas wall that Twins player Kirby Puckett jumped to rob Ron Gant of the Atlanta Braves of an extra-base hit during Game 6 of the 1991 World Series ( a game that Puckett would win with an 11th-inning walk-off homer )-in later years, with the Plexiglas removed, it would have been a potential home run ball.

This was the longest homer Killebrew ever hit, and the longest ever hit in Metropolitan Stadium.

In Game 5 he hit a 3-run homer with two out in the seventh to pull the Dodgers within 10-6, but struck out to end the game and the Series.

Against the Yankees in the 1953 Series, Hodges hit an impressive. 364 ; he had three hits including a homer in the 9-5 Game 1 loss, but the Dodgers again lost in six games.

The Broncs did hit two quick strikes in the final period against the Texans, but Dallas had enough of a lead to hold them off.

He hit a poor tee shot, pulling it off into the pine woods separating the 9th and first fairways.

* Malcolm Nash the cricketer famous for bowling to Gary Sobers who hit six sixes off one Nash over ( 36 runs ) is from Abergavenny.

:: Rule 10. 05 ( a )( 2 ) Comment: The official scorer shall credit a hit if the fielder attempting to handle the ball cannot make a play, even if such fielder deflects the ball from or cuts off another fielder who could have put out a runner.

This is in fact incorrect, for a higher string tension can cause the shuttle to slide off the racquet and hence make it harder to hit a shot accurately.

After a brief pause, Marlborough ’ s equerry, Colonel Bringfield ( or Bingfield ), led up another of the Duke ’ s spare horses ; but while assisting him onto his mount, the unfortunate Bringfield was hit by an errant cannonball that sheared off his head.

This makes it difficult to hit the ball freely and score runs, especially on the off side.

The wing and part of the tail came off and hit a tree and a wooden hut, the plane spinning along the snow until coming to a halt.

The only home run ball ever hit completely out of Memorial Stadium was slugged by Robinson on Mother's Day in 1966, off Cleveland Indians pitcher Luis Tiant.

Minutes after the final line of the Orioles win was shown, Evan Longoria hit a walk off home run, to complete their playoffs comeback and win the wild card birth.

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.

Parton's initial success came as a songwriter, writing two top ten hits with her uncle Bill Owens: Bill Phillips's " Put it off Until Tomorrow " and Skeeter Davis ' 1967 hit " Fuel to the Flame ".

One theory is that this was caused by a design fault in the ammunition loading system to the main gun turrets, so that an enemy hit on the turret set off an explosion in the magazine, thus sinking the ship.

Elsewhere, they hit civilians with their rifle butts to drive them off.

Although Secret Messages debuted at number four in the United Kingdom, it fell off the charts, failing to catch fire with a lack of hit singles in the U. K. ( though " Rock ' n ' Roll Is King " was a sizeable hit in UK, the US and Australia ) and a lukewarm media response.

It was hit off Jeff Weaver.

In May 1937, HMS Arethusa had to tow HMS Hunter into port after Hunter hit a mine off Almeria that killed and wounded several British sailors.

His perseverance finally paid off, with the major box-office hit A Guide for the Married Man ( 1967 ) where he directed Walter Matthau.

If the hydrofoils hit something the boat will fall off the foils and this often creates a perception of increased danger.

The 1984 season started off badly when shortstop Dickie Thon was hit in the head by a pitch and was lost for the season.