Greenberg hit the only two homers by the Tigers — one in Game Two, where he batted in three runs in a 4 – 1 win ; the other — a two-run job — tied the game in the eighth inning of Game Six, making the score 8 – 8, but the Cubs won that game with a run in the bottom of the 12th.

* In the first major sporting event in New York City since the attack, a baseball game at Shea Stadium, the New York Mets ' Mike Piazza hits a two-run, game-winning home run in the bottom of the eighth inning against the Atlanta Braves to defeat the Braves, 3-2.

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 the fourth inning, Williams doubled to drive in a run, but the National League was winning 5-2 in the eighth inning, and Williams struck out in the bottom half of the inning in the middle of a rally by the American League team.

As an eighth grader in Haddonfield, New Jersey, in the 1960s, Sims crafted a snowboard in his school shop class by gluing carpet to the top of a piece of wood and attaching aluminum sheeting to the bottom.

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.

In the 1912 World Series, Speaker led the Red Sox to their second World Series title over John McGraw's New York Giants, with the Red Sox winning the eighth and final game ( game two was called on account of darkness and ended in a tie ) after Fred Snodgrass's error — dropping an easy fly ball that would have been the first out — and Fred Merkle's blunder — failing to go after a Speaker pop foul that would have been the second out, after which Speaker promptly singled home the tying run — allowed the Red Sox to tie and win the game in the bottom of the tenth inning.

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.

" ( Robinson, NHLE, p. 10 ) Only a few lines from the beginning of Origin of the World are discernible on the bottom of the eighth leaf.

* On July 25, 2011, Minnesota Twins first baseman Michael Cuddyer was moved to pitcher in the bottom of the eighth, as the Twins were losing 20-5 to the Texas Rangers.

With the ALCS tied at a game apiece, and trailing 5 – 4 in the bottom of the eighth inning of game three, Munson hit the longest home run of his career, a 475-foot shot off Doug Bird over Yankee Stadium's Monument Park in left-center field, to give the Yankees a 6 – 5 win.

Despite the excessive number of demerits Wilson graduated eighth from the bottom of his class in 1956 with a B. S. in Engineering, specializing in electronics.

Wrexham finished the season second from bottom in eighth place in the first season.

* June 17, 2006 – The Nationals overcome a deficit of seven runs against the New York Yankees and beat the Yankees by blowing Yankees closing pitcher Mariano Rivera's save in the bottom of the eighth inning with Alfonso Soriano's steals and José Guillén's triple and Ryan Zimmerman's single in front of a sellout crowd of 45, 085 fans.

The Braves put up two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning but it was not enough as the Indians won the game, 4 – 3, and the franchise's first World Series since 1920.

In game three of the series with the Mets trailing 2 – 1 in the bottom of the eighth inning, the Giants brought in their dominant closer Robb Nen, who had not blown a save since the All-Star break.

In the postseason he struggled in the ALDS against the Oakland A's until Game 4, when he hit a two-run double in the bottom of the eighth inning off closer Keith Foulke to give the Red Sox the lead.

After a scoreless eighth and a strikeout to start the bottom of the ninth, Smith allowed a one-out ninth-inning single to Tony Gwynn, and Steve Garvey followed with a two-run homer to force Game 5.

Liván Hernández threw eight shutout innings, and Vinny Castilla was denied the chance to hit for the cycle when Diamondback reliever Lance Cormier hit him with a pitch in the bottom of the eighth ; Castilla needed only a single to complete the cycle.

While all thirty Major League franchises currently sing the traditional " Take Me Out to the Ball Game " in the seventh inning, several other teams will sing their local favorite between the top and bottom of the eighth inning.

The Yankees scored two more runs in the bottom of the eighth on a double by Bernie Williams.

The Cardinals broke a 4 – 4 tie in the bottom of the eighth inning with back-to-back home runs from Albert Pujols and Scott Rolen ; Rolen also hit a game-tying homer in the fifth inning.

After the Padres closed it to a one-run game in the eighth with a rare run off closer Willie Hernández, Kirk Gibson came to the plate in the bottom of the eighth for the Tigers with runners on second and third and one out.

Jim Landis' 380-foot home run over left in the first inning gave the Sox a 1-0 lead, but Harmon Killebrew came back in the bottom of the first with his second homer in two days with the walking Bob Allison aboard.

On August 22, 1982, Glenn Brummer stole home in the bottom of the 12th inning of a tie game, thus accomplishing a walk-off straight steal of home, one of the very few in major league history.

As a sidelight to his prominent role in changing the game to the power game, the frequency and popularity of Ruth's home runs eventually led to a rule change pertaining to those hit in sudden-death mode ( bottom of the ninth or later inning ).

The 2002 All-Star Game, played in Selig's hometown of Milwaukee, was tied 7-7 after 9 innings, and remained tied after the bottom of the 11th inning.

:::" One inning more to play " in standard baseball jargon means that the home team has one set of at-bats remaining: the poem is set just before the start of Mudville's final turn ( of a regulation game ), in the bottom of the ninth inning ( Mudville was the home team and the home team bats last in an inning ).

Cleveland became the first team to lose the World Series after carrying the lead into the bottom of the ninth inning of the seventh game.

After being beaten in Game 3 7 – 1, the Cubs lost Game 4 when Smith, with the game tied 5 – 5, allowed a game-winning home run to Garvey in the bottom of the ninth inning.

One of the most memorable plays in the game, and in team history, occurred in the bottom of the first inning when 2nd baseman, Eric Young of the Rockies hit a leadoff home run.

The game lasted 13 innings, and although the Padres got two runs off of a Scott Hairston home run in the top of the 13th inning to break a 6 – 6 tie, the Rockies came back in the bottom of the 13th by scoring three runs off of closer Trevor Hoffman to win 9 – 8.

In the bottom of the eighteenth inning, Clemens came to bat again, indicating that he would be pitching in the nineteenth inning, if it came to that.

Facing elimination, the Royals trailed 1 – 0 in the bottom of the ninth inning, before rallying to score two runs and win.

In the bottom of the twelfth inning with Ruel at bat, he hit a high, foul ball directly over home plate.

The Twins won by scoring a run in the bottom of the 10th inning, and Morris had pitched a shutout for all ten innings against the Braves.

Miller Park also features another fan favorite, Klement ’ s Racing Sausages, in a race of five costumed mascots, held before the bottom of the sixth inning.

The Mets would load the bases with two outs in the bottom of the inning, but Adam Wainright struck out Carlos Beltran looking with a devastating curveball.

* 1951 – The " Shot Heard ' Round the World ", one of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history, occurs when the New York Giants ' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.

With the score tied at two runs apiece in the bottom of the ninth inning, Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda called upon closer Tom Niedenfuer to pitch.

On September 2 Smith tied a career high by scoring four runs, one of which was a home run, and another on a close play at home plate in the bottom of the 10th inning against division leader Houston.

On June 3, 1995, Martínez pitched nine perfect innings in a game against the San Diego Padres, before giving up a hit in the bottom of the 10th inning.

In the 1986 American League Championship Series, Clemens pitched poorly in the opening game, watched the Boston bullpen blow his 3 – 0 lead in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 4, and then pitched a strong Game 7 to wrap up the series for Boston.