| The pitch stayed up and was walloped 438 feet to left center, a three-run, two-out homer that put the game out of reach. |
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| Quinn, exiled to the minors after an array of defensive miscues and attitude problems, hit a three-run homer last Saturday. |
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| Despite Robinson's misplays, the Orioles won the game, 3-2, on Frank Robinson's three-run homer in the ninth inning off reliever Rollie Fingers. |
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| So far, the change has resulted in improved extra-base power, including back-to-back games with a homer. |
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| Boston's Bernie Carbo had fled the battle with a two-out, three-run eighth-inning pinch homer. |
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| If you were told you could get away with using a corked bat to hit a game-winning homer in the World Series, would you do it? |
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| The big lefty slugger creamed a low-and-away fastball into the rightfield upper deck for a two-run homer. |
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| The previous fall, my interest was sparked again when Joe Carter hit the walk-off homer to win the World Series. |
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| Sheffield followed by taking him even deeper, walloping a towering homer into the upper left-field deck. |
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| The ball went in and out of the seats in such a way that the umpire called it a double rather than a homer. |
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| It does, however, include one homer temporarily nullified because of a bat with too much pine tar, and one off a transformer in Detroit. |
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| And Cal Ripken, just days after learning he is a platoon player from here on out, hit his first 2001 homer. |
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| The White Sox pitcher challenged Mantle with a high fastball, and Mickey drove the ball almost out of sight for a three-run homer. |
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| Young Troy hits a homer to win the sandlot game and says his heart belongs to the Dodgers and Ebbets Field. |
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| Millar greeted Clemens with a first-pitch homer to left-field, Nixon worked a walk, and Bill Mueller singled to center as Nixon took third. |
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| He allowed only one homer but can be victimized by bloops and broken-bat hits. |
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| The umps decided since the game was being played in a N.L. park, Galan would be credited with a homer. |
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| For a split-second I thought he might have a shot at an inside-the-park homer, though a strong throw probably would have nailed him. |
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| In the nightcap of the doubleheader, he hit a ninth inning homer off Hoyt Wilhelm to assure the Yankees of a 1-0 win. |
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| In 1960, the Yankees outhit the Pirates, 91-60, and outscored them, 55-27, but lost Game 7 on a ninth inning, leadoff homer. |
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| Adrian Beltre hit a three-run homer, his 45th home run of the season, in the third inning off Jason Marquis for a 5-4 Dodger lead. |
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| Famously, he hit a home run in his first at-bat, the only homer of his career. |
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| A racing homer can average 40 miles per hour or more under normal conditions, but they have reached speeds of 60 miles per hour and faster. |
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| Luckily for him, the referee is a complete homer so he gets away with it both times. |
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| He hit a homer over the right field wall to give us the lead. |
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| Now researchers have identified a crucial genetic component of the great bee leap from homer to roamer. |
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| In the clubhouse afterward, Ruth was naturally exultant over his 60th homer. |
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| For coinosseuers of literature, the sagas stories of family struggles, rivalry, and conflict rank with homer and Shakespeare. |
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| Did McCarthy invent the portrayal of violence in fiction, or should that laurel go to homer? |
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| Yogi Berra hit a two-run homer in the third inning off starter Bob Buhl. |
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| Ruth caught one anyway, and hefted it deep into the right field stands for his 55th homer. |
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| It was Dellucci's second pinch-hit homer and Arizona's seventh pinch-hit homer of the season. |
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| Joe is such a homer that he would never boo the Hometown Hobos, even if they are in last place in the league. |
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| And all the other pigeoneers I knew were obsessed homer men who cared only about racing. |
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| It was the fourth homer to splash down into the bay since Giants moved into Pacific Bell Park this season, and all of them have been hit by Bonds. |
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| His solo homer off a 2-2 pitch to left-center field in the seventh inning came after two long foul balls down the left-field line. |
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| Hundley's homer was almost a carbon copy of the grand slam he hit in Monday's game. |
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| Before homering, McGwire was only 6 for 28 with only one homer against the Pirates. |
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| He gave up a two-run homer to Alex Rodriguez in the first inning and a solo homer to Jason Giambi in the third, both on knuckleballs. |
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| Ian Kinsler hit the first pitch thrown by John Lackey into the left-field seats for his sixth homer this season, and 28th career leadoff shot. |
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| Giambi rescued Perez with a two-run, pinch-hit homer. |
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| He can be partial to the Mets, but he is not a homer. |
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| Smash a homer, strike a pose and satisfy a nation. |
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| Head up! For every newbegotten thou shalt gather thy homer of ripe wheat. |
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| Some birds are lost. They are shot, taken by hawks, blown down in storms or trapped by other pigeon keepers. Regardless, the real homer man doesn't want them back. |
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| He gave up a leadoff double to Todd Linden in the first inning that led to a run on Lance Niekro's groundout and a solo homer to Niekro leading off the fourth. |
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| It was the first ball hit even as far as the warning track in the two games here and was just the seventh three-run homer by a Boston batter in World Series history. |
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| Loaiza walked consecutive batters in the second inning, struck out Chris Young and then surrendered a three-run homer to Chris Snyder on a cut fastball. |
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| Denny Duron singled in a run in the third to make it 6-0, and the fourth-inning production came from Velazquez's two-run home run and Zach Zaneski's solo homer. |
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| Buck's night ended, to a standing ovation from the sold-out crowd of 2,132, after Chris Jensen led off the UCLA eighth inning with a homer off the scoreboard in right field. |
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| Each of the pigeon fanciers released a homer at the same time. |
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