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Freeman's homer was the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history as well as the third Series walk-off homer of any kind for a team that was trailing, following Joe Carter's World Series-winning home run for the Toronto Blue Jays in 1993 and Kirk Gibson's Game 1-winning home run for the Dodgers in 1988. [48]
On January 25, 2017, the Braves announced that the University of Georgia and University of Missouri would play the first baseball game in Truist Park on April 8, 2017. [55] The Georgia-Missouri game was also the first time the stadium was open to the general public. [55] The teams drew in 33,025 spectators as Missouri beat Georgia 6–1. [56]
1951 World Series at Baseball Almanac; 1951 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com; The 1951 Post-Season Games (box scores and play-by-play) at Retrosheet; History of the World Series - 1951 at The Sporting News. Archived from the original in May 2006. Kodak Presents – Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments, The Shot Heard 'Round the World
In baseball, 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. According to The Dickson Baseball Dictionary , the term originated in the card game of contract bridge , [ better source needed ] in which a grand slam involves taking all the ...
Day 1 at the year's last Grand Slam tournament went about as well as possible for Gauff and another young American featured in Ashe, 13th-seeded Ben Shelton, a semifinalist a year ago who beat ...
Burke accounted for UT's 11th when he hit a grand slam on May 17 against South Carolina. Burke's homer also set an SEC record. LSU held the previous record of 10, which it achieved in 1998.
The Cardinals evened the series with a blowout win in Game 2, capped off by a grand slam from Gary Gaetti. In St. Louis for Game 3, Ron Gant led the Cardinals to victory with a pair of home runs. In Game 4, the Braves had a 3–0 lead after six and a half innings, but the Cardinals scored four unanswered runs to take a commanding 3–1 series lead.
On July 8, 2011, Johnson hit his second grand slam in the season off St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Kyle Lohse. Johnson gave the D-backs the lead in the seventh to break a tie 7–3. He hit a 2-2 pitch into the Cardinals bullpen while thinking that he only hit a sacrifice fly. The ball carried long enough to be a grand slam.