Just wondering what everyone's most memorable RBI game/moment is.
Mine's from about 15 years ago. Damn, I'm getting old. My friend's dad played the game religiously and saw me beating his son all the time, so he challenged me. We set up a date, time, everything. Me, a ten year old kid against my dad's friend, probably about 40. We did a random draw. He got the Red Sox and I was stuck with the Cardinals. Final score, 2-1. He never lived it down.
16-inning classic. Curve pitch. My Cardinals vs my cousin's Astros. Game ends in the bottom of the 16th when my cousin misplayes a fly ball to center and Ozzie Smith gets an in-the-park home run. Final score: 1-0
Seems like the Cardinals are on this list quite a bit. I'll add to that list. My roomate and I last year he was New York and i was the St Louis Cardinals. We play curve and it was a beastly battle. I am guessing 5 or 6 total hits through 14 innings. 1-1 tie goin to the bottom of the 15th. vince dribbles one down the line and beats it out. Ozzie lines out to the pitcher. Jose Oquendo hits a lazy fly to short right field so vince was stuck at first. Jack Clark hits a fucking moon ball to dead center. Vince is off on contact. Lenny settles under it. DOINK. Vince was already half way home and the game was over. Nails fucking blew it. what a bad bad RBI athlete. GO CARDINALS
P.S. That is probably the only thing Jack Clark has ever done for me.
Well glassjoe. I was having some trouble with good old tommy herr. and Jim Lindeman was having a hell of a hot streak hitting in the 7 hole for ford. I just needed a boost and i figured Jose could do it. I mean come on he has played maybe started at every position. Im gonna guess no other RBIers can lay that claim
God I hate you...and Matt Nokes....matter of fact....It is a close call on which one I'd rather see die in a fiery motorcycle accident...
Mine's a walk-off homer by the Strawman to win a best-of-7 'gainst my heated rival Dan about 8 years ago. 'Flicked the controller up in the air and got up for a beer upon contact, I knew I'd drilled it.
Ever so sweet . . .
Funny, mine involves the Cardinals, too. I was about 10 - I'm the visiting team, using the Cards, and my friend Mike is the Giants. We've got a duel going, 4-4 after 9, completely evenly matched. I start the top of the 10th with a base hit. Then another. Then another. And it keeps going. By the time the dust clears, I'm up 14-4. He barely bothered to try in the bottom of the 10th, and that was the final score. It was the first and only time I ever 10-runned a human opponent in extra innings.
Last night I was playing NY vs Boston. Losing 5-2, I scored 3 in the 8th, then hit a knuckleball that didn't knuckle in the bottom of the 11th to win the game.
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Mike
Good stuff, Marquis. Good stuff.
Sounds like Jaylums pulled a Larry Bird after winning the three-point contest. Larry Legend is the man.
After 2 losses to my friend I got sweet revenge with a 2-0 win. Those 2 runs? 2 homers, Lenny Dykstra and Wally Backman. He nearly shit when Wally went yard.
a game i lost but as memorable as any of them. Played a friend this spring, and he was STL, I was HOU. 1-sp ATG game.
I get 9 scoreless innings outta Nolan, and he gets like 7 2/3(maybe 8 1/3?) scoreless outta Tudor. I bring in kerfeld and get 4 more scorless innings. we head to the top of the 14th tied at 0.
I believe he had Mcgee on 2nd with 2 outs and Pendelton at the plate. I leave Kerfeld in cause Chad is down to his last pitcher, and he's got an inning under his belt, so im expecting his guy to tire soon. i decide to play the odds, and try to milk way too much out charlie here, as im looking to save Smith for later. Pendu drops a blooper into center, for the rbi and 1-0 lead. damnitt, I shoulda just pulled the trigger and put in dave smith. anyways i cannott get a run in the bottom of the 14th and drop the game 1-0.
i was the dusty baker of rbi back in the day, cause i would always leave my guys out there for too long.
nacho and i played a 24 inning marathon in my friend's dorm room in the winter of 2000. I was Houston, he was StL, a tradition that continues to this day. i'm sure he has posted about this before, and I probably have, too. He won 2-1, and I believe it came on a homer from Ozzie Smith. all details are fuzzy, the game has become the stuff of legend by now.
EDIT: oh, and the time I pitched a complete game four hitter vs Nacho w/Charlie Kerfeld. that was awesome.
I ran a basball card store and we got the standup video game RBI hoping it would keep customers for a while. Rarely did anyone play .. except for the employees. We'd stay hours after shifts were over or the store was closed and have battles. I could beat most anyone except for this one guy who always played the "A's." I forget which guy he'd pitch but he alwasy jacked me up. I couldn't hit those slow slow slow ass knuckling balls and i couldn't lay off of them. Good times!