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The Washington Nationals celebrate a walk-off grand slam hit by Justin Maxwell in 2009. A grand slam is a home run hit with all three bases occupied by baserunners ("bases loaded"), thereby scoring four runs—the most possible in one play. A walk-off home run with the bases loaded is therefore known as a walk-off grand slam.
Walk-off may refer to: Walk-off home run, in baseball; Walk-off touchdown, in gridiron football; Walkout, a political or economic protest Cummeragunja walk-off, by Aboriginal people in New South Wales, 1939; Wave Hill walk-off, by Gurindji stockmen in the Northern Territory of Australia, 1966; 2018 Google walkouts
Home runs are often characterized by the number of runners on base at the time. A home run hit with the bases empty is never called a "one-run homer", but rather a solo home run, solo homer, or "solo shot". With one runner on base, two runs score (the base-runner and the batter), and thus the home run is often called a two-run homer or two-run ...
But the game probably would have ended an inning earlier, if not for a fan interference call that took away a walk-off home run. With the game tied 0-0 in the bottom of the ninth, ...
Mazeroski's homer remains the only walk-off home run in Game 7 of a World Series. After Forbes Field was demolished, the section of the left-field wall where the home run left the park was moved to the Pirates' new home of Three Rivers Stadium, and still later was moved to their current home, PNC Park. A line of bricks marks that section of the ...
ST. PETERSBURG — Pete Fairbanks went from furious to ecstatic. After the Rays closer could not protect a three-run lead in the top of the ninth Friday and was yanked with two outs, he went back ...
All-Star Jurickson Profar hit a tying home run leading off the ninth inning and Manny Machado walked it off with a two-run shot in the San Diego Padres' wild 10-8 victory over the Arizona ...
With one out, Berkman hits an opposite-field homer to left on a 2–1 pitch to bring the Astros within a run; it is the first time that two grand slams are hit in the same postseason game. After tying the game in the 9th, the Astros win the series on Chris Burke's walk-off homer in the 18th, making it the second longest game in postseason history.