# Named baseball games (like the PineTar Game) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [October 16, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342 "2022-10-16T20:12:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
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> [@gnarator](#): > > > [@What\_Exit](#): > > > > “Cal passes Lou” September 2, 1995. I think most baseball fans remember that one. Cal Ripken breaks Lou Gehrig’s consecutive game record. > > How about the game Gehrig finally sat out? - Gehrig never played a game after that. ---
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I believe it was front-page news at the time. ---
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Wilmer Flores’ tears for Mets fans (Or, “There _is_ crying in baseball.”). Two days later, there was the Flores game, where he got several standing ovations, and a walk off hoe run. He also drove in the Mets only run. Roger Maris 61\*. Sandy Koufax’s perfect game, not just because of that, but because the game had the fewest total hits (one) and fewest total earned runs (zero) in major league history. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/24 "2022-10-17T20:10:16Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > . In the “Sandberg Game” Ryne Sandberg went 5 for 6 and hit two game tying home runs off of Sutter in back to back innings. I’d honestly never heard of this game. 🙂 Must be a local thing. Actually, except for the Pine Tar game, Ten Cent Beer Night, and the Disco Demolition Night, I could not think of any named regular season games. Everything else named here is a famous game, but are either named **moments** (The Shot Heard Round The World, or any reference to someone breaking a record) or just a literal description, like “Sandy Koufax’s perfect game” or “Armando Galarragga’s perfect game that wasn’t” or whatever. There aren’t many named playoff games, either. There’s the Eric Gregg Game, in the 1997 NLCS, the Bartman game in 2003, and… again, it’s mostly named moments IN the game. There must be others I’m forgetting. ---
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The Mike Piazza Post-9/11 Home Run Game. It’s a mouthful. ---
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[Wikipedia, of course, has a (very short) list.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Major_League_Baseball_games) ---
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> [@RickJay](#): > > I’d honestly never heard of this game. 🙂 Must be a local thing. Probably so. Another one from that era that’s still well-known among Cub fans (and probably Phillies fans) is the “23-22 Game” from 1979. As this SABR article describes it: > [@](#): > > In what could be billed as one of the wildest games in major-league history, the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs met on a Thursday afternoon in front of 14,952 fans at Wrigley Field. The wind was blowing out at 18 mph. A little more than four hours later, the Phillies emerged victorious, securing a 23-22 victory in 10 innings. The game featured 45 runs, 50 hits, 11 home runs, 127 batters, 11 pitchers, 15 walks, and 37 players. > **[May 17, 1979: Schmidt’s Phillies outslug Kingman’s Cubs, 23-22 – Society for...](https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/may-17-1979-schmidts-phillies-outslug-kingmans-cubs-23-22/)** ---
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**The Brian Johnson game** , named (because many are not SF Giants fans) after the Giants catcher who hit an extra inning walk-off home run to sweep the Dodgers at Candlestick Park. > **[Brian Johnson (catcher)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Johnson_(catcher)#The_%E2%80%9CBrian_Johnson_game%E2%80%9D)** > > Brian David Johnson (born January 8, 1968) is an American former Major League Baseball catcher and former quarterback for Stanford University. > Johnson attended Skyline High School (Oakland, California) from 1983 to 1986, where he was a three-sport varsity letterman. As a catcher and pitcher for the Titans, Johnson tied one national record and broke six state records while being selected as an All-American. Johnson was the starting quarterback during all three of his years at Skyline. In additi... Hmmm, I don’t know how to write the link to the wiki paragraph. And, I was there! With my coworker who would soon be my girlfriend and then, eventually, my wife. A great game! ---
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> [@RickJay](#): > > > [@Loach](#): > > > > . In the “Sandberg Game” Ryne Sandberg went 5 for 6 and hit two game tying home runs off of Sutter in back to back innings. > > I’d honestly never heard of this game. 🙂 Must be a local thing. > > Actually, except for the Pine Tar game, Ten Cent Beer Night, and the Disco Demolition Night, I could not think of any named regular season games. Everything else named here is a famous game, but are either named **moments** (The Shot Heard Round The World, or any reference to someone breaking a record) or just a literal description, like “Sandy Koufax’s perfect game” or “Armando Galarragga’s perfect game that wasn’t” or whatever. > > There aren’t many named playoff games, either. There’s the Eric Gregg Game, in the 1997 NLCS, the Bartman game in 2003, and… again, it’s mostly named moments IN the game. There must be others I’m forgetting. It was one example used by Costas. He was a St Louis radio broadcaster early in his career. The point he was making is there aren’t too many regular season games that qualify. Since there are almost 2,500 regular season games they need something truly noteworthy to be known by a special name. It’s a lot more likely in the post season with the spotlight on every game. I didn’t think there would be many we could come up with. There may be many more that are known only to fans of a particular team. Even though it was manufactured the Field of Dreams Game could have qualified but they made it annual so it’s not very special now. ---
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As a Cardinals fan I’d say most fans around my age would probably know what I meant if I mentioned the “Tatis game” (two grand slams in one inning off the same pitcher) and “seat cushion night” (where the team broke a long losing streak and fans littered the field with giveaway seat cushions - which was actually an echo of an earlier seat cushion game). But that’s all I could think of. ---
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Cardinal fans need only hear “Brummer” to remember August 22, 1982, [when third-string catcher Glenn Brummer](https://www.stlredbirds.com/2021/07/28/august-22-1982-glenn-brummer-steals-home-and-becomes-an-unlikely-cardinals-hero/) stole home in the bottom of the 12th inning to give the team a 5-4 victory over the Giants. Similarly, “The Laga Hit” can only refer to September 15, 1986, when Mike Laga became [the only player ever to hit a ball entirely out of Busch Stadium II](https://www.mlb.com/video/laga-hits-ball-out-of-stadium-c20284407) (the 1986-2005 version.) Granted, it was a foul ball, but the crowd still gave Laga a standing ovation. ---
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Glen Brummer stealing home. Here it is on YouTube. It doesn’t show his break from third but it does show him sliding at the plate. It wasn’t even close. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/oKH0W8k9OLM/maxresdefault.jpg "Glenn Brummer's steal of home lives on in Cardinals history") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKH0W8k9OLM) ---
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There’s the “Double No-Hit” game of May 2, 1917, in which both starting pitchers went nine without giving up a hit, with the Reds finally getting a hit and the game’s only run off the Cubs in the tenth inning. ---
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> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Holy shit, that was 12 years ago. Time really speeds up when you have kids. I woulda sworn it wasn’t more than five or six years ago I know how you feel. Even more amazing is that there were 5 official perfect games in three seasons, 2010 to 2012. Gallaraga’s would have made it six. There hasn’t been a perfecto since Felix Hernandez ten years ago. I’ve heard the Gallaraga game being referred to as the 28-out Perfect Game. I suppose that counts as per OP’s guidelines. ---
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It was a playoff game but the 1981 Blue Monday NLCS game that every Montreal Expo fan of a certain age remembers. Not many games that have names. Some probably should: The Blue Jays, I think it was 1983, got picked off three times in the same inning for all three outs. It should have it’s own name, Triple Pickoff Game? Not that many people remember it, RickJay probably does. More of a local thing, I think most of these games would qualify as such. The 1969 game where a black cat walked in front of the Cubs. The Cubs were leading the division but the Mets overtook them, the cat was blamed. This is more a moment however. There is the double no-hitter game of 1917, may already be named. Harvey Haddix’ 12-inning perfect game, I think has a name, The Haddix Game. Doesn’t the game where Juan Marichal hit the pitcher with his bat have a name? ---
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> [@ThatCanadianGuy](#): > > Doesn’t the game where Juan Marichal hit the pitcher with his bat have a name? - The catcher. John Roseboro. ---
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> [@ThatCanadianGuy](#): > > Triple Pickoff Game? Not that many people remember it, RickJay probably does. It’s pretty famous; the pitcher was Tippy Martinez, and the picked off idiots were Barry Bonnell, Dave Collins, and Willie Upshaw. All were overeager because due to an injury the Orioles had to put in Lenn Sakata, who wasn’t a catcher, as the emergency catcher. In the bottom of the tenth, guess who hit a come from behind walk off homer? Lenn Sakata. The game reversed the fortunes of the two teams. Or coincided with it, anyway. Coming into the game they were just a game apart, with Milwaukee just barely ahead of Baltimore in first place. After that game Baltimore finished the year 28-12, winning the division and eventually the World Series. Toronto went into a slump and drifted out of contention. ---
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> [@ThatCanadianGuy](#): > > There hasn’t been a perfecto since Felix Hernandez ten years ago. I know you said there were five Perfect Games in three seasons, but in that season ten years ago there were three: Phillip Humber’s and Matt Cain’s, besides Felix Hernandez’s. They’re never has been another season with three Perfect Games. 2012 was the only one. Two in a season has been done only twice, in 2010 and in 1888. ---
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> [@RickJay](#): > > It’s pretty famous Maybe some die-hard Jays and Orioles fans remember it, but is it known by others? Still, it’s a unique inning in history. I watched that game on TV and thought, wth just happened? ---
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