# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/41 "2023-03-09T20:09:57Z")
The Rick Camp game is fairly well known, especially among those like myself who were baseball fans during the Superstation era. I remember specifically coming home after shooting off fireworks with a friend and the game still being on. Just stayed up and watched as I imagine a lot of people did for the novelty and there wasn’t much else on at the time > **[Atlanta Braves–New York Mets game on July 4, 1985](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Braves%E2%80%93New_York_Mets_game_on_July_4,_1985?wprov=sfti1)** > > On July 4, 1985, the New York Mets beat the Atlanta Braves 16–13 in a 19-inning Major League Baseball contest that featured Keith Hernandez hitting for the cycle, Mets manager Davey Johnson being ejected, and the Braves coming back to tie the game twice in extra innings, most notably in the bottom of the 18th. > The game was especially highlighted by relief pitcher Rick Camp, a career .060 hitter at the time with no home runs batting only because the Braves had no position players left, shockingl... ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/42 "2023-03-09T20:20:33Z")
The " Homer in the Gloamin’" game where Gabby Harnett of the Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates in the bottom of the 9th as the sun was fading in Wrigley Field. This allowed the Cubs to beat and pass the Pirates the very next day and clinch the pennant in St. Louis thereafter. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/43 "2023-03-09T20:30:01Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > The Rick Camp game is fairly well known That game was really something, and I remember watching it. I was a teenage Mets fan at the time and when Camp hit the home run the left fielder, Danny Heep, threw his hands up in complete disbelief after watching it go out. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/44 "2023-03-09T20:48:53Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > The Rick Camp game is fairly well known, especially among those like myself who were baseball fans during the Superstation era. I remember specifically coming home after shooting off fireworks with a friend and the game still being on. Just stayed up and watched as I imagine a lot of people did for the novelty and there wasn’t much else on at the time > > [Atlanta Braves–New York Mets game on July 4, 1985 - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Braves%E2%80%93New_York_Mets_game_on_July_4,_1985?wprov=sfti1) I was actually at that game! My dad refused to stay past the 11th inning, and I gave him a ton of grief, and the next day he pushed the newspaper over to me and said “see? I was right” And I pushed it back and said “see? I was right” ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/45 "2023-03-09T22:28:58Z")
How about the Dock Ellis on LSD game? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/46 "2023-03-19T17:26:29Z")
The Mets have the “crying game” and the Wilmer Flores game two days apart. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/47 "2023-03-20T04:25:46Z")
> [@ThatCanadianGuy](#): > > Doesn’t the game where Juan Marichal hit the pitcher with his bat have a name? If it does, I haven’t heard of it here in San Francisco. And oh yeah, Go Giants! ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/48 "2023-03-20T19:43:46Z")
The Kerry Wood game in 1998, when Wood, in only his 5th MLB start with the Cubs, struck out 20 Houston batters and only allowed one hit (which could have been ruled an error). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/49 "2023-03-20T19:55:18Z")
Dammit. I just saw this thread pop to the top and that’s exactly the game I thought of. On the other side of town, there’s the Sox-Yankees no-hitter, where the Yankees did not allow a hit and lost 4-0, on July 1, 1990. I’m not sure of a “name” for it, per se, but it’s a pretty well-known game in local lore. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/50 "2023-03-20T20:28:46Z")
I would call that the Andy Hawkins game. I watched that game and boy was it a mess. Hawkins walked five, only struck out three, and the Yankees committed three errors. IIRC, two of the errors were dropped fly balls in the outfield. It was a dark time for pinstripe fans (the Yanks finished dead last in the AL East with a 67-95 record.) Hawkins, of course, wasn’t credited with a no-hitter as he only pitched 8 innings. Weird game. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/51 "2023-03-20T21:36:40Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Hawkins, of course, wasn’t credited with a no-hitter as he only pitched 8 innings. Weird game. Matt Young had a similar no-hitter with the Red Sox in 1992. No hits over eight innings but seven walks and Cleveland won 2-1. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2023, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/52 "2023-03-20T23:53:14Z")
July 18,1999, The Yogi Berra Day game. After a long absence due to George Steinbrenner being an asshole the Yankees honored Yogi Berra. As part of the festivities Don Larsen threw out the first pitch to Yogi. They had the Yankees first perfect game back in 1956. David Cone took the ball and then threw a perfect game with Yogi and Larsen in attendance. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/54 "2024-12-07T12:28:36Z")
Indeed, playoff games become legendary when they have an iconic moment. Moreso than do regular season games. The ‘Shot Heard ‘Round the World’ was actually a playoff game, not a regular season game. There is a good local story about that iconic game around these parts where we are SF Giants fans and we have a chip on our collective shoulders against the LA Dodgers. (This famed Giants-Dodgers rivalry means more to us up here in Northern California than it does down south in ‘Smell-A’ country, where for the most part the Dodgers fans don’t care about this so-called rivalry.) The story is that 1951 playoff game happened before the broadcasts were recorded by network television, and the only reason we have a recording of that ‘Shot Heard ‘Round the World’ is because of a pair of Giants fans who used a tape recorder to capture the broadcast. They put their tape recorder next to the radio in a separate room in their house, set it to record, then quietly left the room. At about the 35-37 seconds mark in this recording, ➜ [https://youtu.be/lrI7dVj90zs](https://youtu.be/lrI7dVj90zs) ■ you can hear an individual happily scream, a “Woo-hoo!”, above the roar of the crowd and above Russ Hodges’s repeated calls of “_ **The Giants win the pennant!** _ _ **The Giants win the pennant!** _ _ **The Giants win the pennant!** _”. That scream is not coming from the crowd at the game, it’s coming from the ecstatic Giants fan who recorded it in his house. And that’s the only reason we have a recording of Russ Hodges’s iconic call of Bobby Thompson’s walk-off home run. ---
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In fact, Kevin Orie, who was played 3B for the Cubs in that game, volunteered to take the error so Wood would have a no-hitter. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/56 "2024-12-07T23:47:52Z")
“The Game with Rick Monday’s Great Play” occurred during the regular season and was marked by unusual circumstances: > **[The Day Rick Monday Saved the American Flag](https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2023/06/rick-monday-saved-american-flag-stephen-klugewicz.html)** > > On April 25, 1976, the year of the American Bicentennial celebrations, Chicago Cubs outfielder Rick Monday saved an American flag from being burned by two protestors who had trespassed onto the field during a game at Dodger Stadium. Here is the story... ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/57 "2024-12-08T06:36:49Z")
That is a great story. I have a bobblehead of that. It’s one of the few I have. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/58 "2024-12-09T00:25:45Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > The ‘Shot Heard ‘Round the World’ was actually a playoff game, not a regular season game. It was both, actually. While it was the second of three planned best 2-out-of-3 games to decide the National League pennant, it counted as a regular season game and all stats are considered regular season stats. That home run was Bobby Thomson’s 32nd of the season and pushed him over 100 RBI, but he is not credited with any playoff home runs that year (or in his career.) Tiebreaker games, when we had those wonderful things, were always considered regular season games. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/59 "2024-12-09T04:10:59Z")
Thanks for that clarification! ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342/60 "2024-12-10T04:19:57Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Tiebreaker games, when we had those wonderful things, were always considered regular season games. Oddly, only the NL had those 3 game playoffs, the AL always used single elimination for ties. ---
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And doesn’t that bring to mind Bucky Dent? Or as he’s known in Boston, Bucky F. Dent? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/named-baseball-games-like-the-pinetar-game/973342.md?page=4)