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 an ecstatic interview after the game, Jim Tracy stated that he told the Rockies ' preceding batter, relief pitcher Adam Eaton, not to swing: " I don't care if he throws three right down the middle, don't swing because I want Spilborghs to have a shot with the bases loaded.

* Ryan Spilborghs — Outfielder for the Colorado Rockies

After several Colorado at-bats, the bases were loaded and Ryan Spilborghs stepped up to the plate.

Out of compulsion to say something cheery, Ben Prime blurted, `` Well, we were lucky to be on soft ground when the first floodheads hit.

Bobby Lowe of Boston was the first to hit four at home and Gil Hodges turned the trick in Brooklyn's Ebbetts Field.

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

Five matches were played in 1902 but the first two were drawn after being hit by bad weather.

* 1961 – Motown releases what would be its first # 1 hit, " Please Mr. Postman " by The Marvelettes.

More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967.

Today automated flight control is common to reduce pilot error and workload at key times like landing or takeoff. Autopilot was first invented by Lawrence Sperry during World War II to fly bomber planes steady enough to hit precision targets from 25, 000 feet.

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.

The desire to create air portable armoured vehicles that can still take on conventional MBTs has usually resulted ATGM armed light vehicles or in protected / armoured / mobile gun system style vehicles in which a lack of armour protection being in part offset by the provision of a first look / first hit / first kill capability through the mating of a powerful gun to superior targeting electronics, a concept similar in operation to that of the US tank destroyers of WWII.

* 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

Fahey contemporary Robbie Basho added elements of Indian classical music and Leo Kottke used a Faheyesque approach to make the first solo steel-string guitar " hit " record.

However, the need to engage targets at night, in depth or hit the target with the first rounds quickly led to predicted fire being developed in World War I.

In 1984, she released another pop-oriented Christian hit, Straight Ahead, earning Grant her first appearance at the Grammy Awards show in 1985.

" Find a Way ", from Unguarded, became the first Christian song to hit Billboard's Top 40 list, also reaching No. 7 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Their first hit was Brigadoon ( 1947 ), a romantic fantasy set in a mystical Scottish village, directed by Robert Lewis.

Benny and Björn scored their first hits as songwriters in the spring of 1969: " Ljuva Sextital " ( a hit with Brita Borg ) and " Speleman " ( a hit for The Hep Stars ).

Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").

* HB — Hit batsman: times hit a batter with pitch, allowing runner to advance to first base

" Number of times batted, except that no time at bat shall be charged when a player: ( 1 ) hits a sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly ; ( 2 ) is awarded first base on four called balls ; ( 3 ) is hit by a pitched ball ; or ( 4 ) is awarded first base because of interference or obstruction ..."

* The batter reaches first base on a hit

In the first two cases above, " on an error " includes situations where the batter makes a clean hit ( or walks, is hit by pitch, reaches base on a fielder's choice in which no out is made, or reaches base on a wild pitch on a called or swinging third strike ), but should have been out earlier in his at bat on a foul fly ball which was dropped by a fielder for an error.

Seldom used and having batted only 12 times in the month, Iannetta hit a 3 – 2 pitch from David Weathers deep to right field for a walk-off 2-run home run, propelling Colorado to a 7 – 5 win.

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.

On February 29, the Marlins were recognized on Sports Illustrated's magazine for the 5th time ( 11 / 3 / 1997, Edgar Renteria who had a walk-off hit in Game 7 of the World Series ; 5 / 25 / 1998, Mike Piazza after his trade from the Dodgers ; 11 / 3 / 2003 ; Josh Beckett, after winning World Series MVP and 3 / 12 / 07 Dontrelle Willis, chronicling global warming with Willis in a flooded Sun Life Stadium.

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.

On September 23, 1957, Aaron hit a two-run walk-off in Milwaukee, clinching the pennant for the Braves and Aaron was carried off the field by his teammates.

The Twins were able to use the play-in game rule to their advantage when they won the AL Central at the end of the regular season and winning a 12-inning tiebreaker on a walk-off hit by Alexi Casilla.

Toronto's Joe Carter hit a walk-off home run in Game 6 to clinch another Phillies loss.

He also is the only player to have hit a walk-off inside-the-park grand slam.

With a two-ball-and-one-strike count, Williams swung with his eyes closed and hit a home run, making the American League walk-off to win 7-5.

He returned on May 11 from a knee injury suffered April 12, and hit a walk-off three-run home run in the bottom of the 11th inning against the Washington Nationals.

Joe Carter hit the second ever walk-off home run to end the 1993 World Series, the first by an American League player.

* July 25 – Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente becomes the first ( and to date only ) player to hit a walk-off inside-the-park grand slam in a win over the Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh's old Forbes Field.

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.

That set it up for Cubs right fielder Jim Hickman, who hit a two-run walk-off home run to win the game, 7 – 6.

On a 2 – 2 count, Carter hit a three-run walk-off home run off Phillies pitcher Mitch Williams ( against whom he was 0 – 4 career ) to win the World Series, only the second time a Series has ended with a home run ( the other being in 1960, when Bill Mazeroski did it for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the New York Yankees ), and the only time the home run has been hit by a player whose team was trailing in the bottom of the 9th inning in a potential championship clinching game.

He is also the only player ever to both record the final out in one World Series, and get a series-clinching walk-off hit in another.

On May 28, 1989, while with the Blue Jays, Bell hit a walk-off home run in a 7 – 5 victory over the Chicago White Sox in the final Major League game played at Exhibition Stadium.

The Red Sox eventually lost the game in the bottom of the 15th, when Alex Rodriguez hit a walk-off two run home run.

Gruber tore his rotator cuff on the play ; however, he hit a key game-tying home run in the eighth inning, and the Jays would go on to win the game in walk-off fashion, later taking the series in six games.

McDowell was also the pitcher who gave up the walk-off, series-winning hit to Edgar Martínez in Game 5 of the 1995 American League Division Series, scoring Joey Cora and Ken Griffey, Jr. to eliminate the Yankees from the playoffs and send the Seattle Mariners to the American League Championship Series.