K-God Porter

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Brandon Belt homered in the top of the 18th inning in Washington, and the Giants won Game 2 of the 2014 NLDS 2 to 1 after six hours and 23 minutes. They went on to win the World Series.

That franchise has a thing for long nights.

No team has won more extra inning games in the regular season since 2000, and Buster Posey was behind the plate for plenty of them.

Which team wins the extra inning games you remember?

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Nolan Ryan walked into his final start of 1973 needing 16 strikeouts to pass Sandy Koufax.

He went 11 innings against the Twins and got exactly 16. That gave him 383, one better than Koufax's 382 from 1965, and more than half a century later it's still the modern single season record.

He threw two no hitters that year as well, and struck out 17 Tigers in the second one. Randy Johnson's 372 in 2001 is the closest anybody has come since.

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Dallas Braden lost his mom to melanoma when he was in high school, and his grandmother Peggy Lindsey helped raise him in Stockton. For a long time he wanted nothing to do with Mother's Day.

On Mother's Day 2010 he threw a perfect game against the Rays. Twenty seven up, twenty seven down, 4 to 0. Gabe Kapler grounded out to end it.

His grandmother was in the stands at the Coliseum watching the whole thing.

[Harvest Moon Herbals @HarvestHerbs]

A few of my favorite fleet week shots!

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Mickey Mantle interviewed in 1954. Really fascinating interview

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Through age 31

Hank Aaron: .320 BA, 366 HR, 796 XBH

Miguel Cabrera: .320 BA, 366 HR, 796 XBH

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Will Clark holding a baby name Brandon Crawford, yes, that Brandon Crawford.

[SFGiants @SFGiants]

An emotional farewell to Mike Krukow from his broadcast partners 🧡

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Phil Collins,David Bowie,Elton John,Mick Jagger,Madonna,Tina Turner,

13 July 1985

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Female athletes on
Sydney Sweeney’s ad for Gambling Site @Novig.

“How dare she”!!!!

[Arizona Diamondbacks @Dbacks]

Corbin Carroll is the first player ever.

[Love Music @khnh80044]

Only Phil Collins could look like the IT guy at your job while doing this in front of a sold out crowd of 120,000

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More than 20 years later, this song still gives me chills. Her voice is simply incredible. ❤️

[Arizona Diamondbacks @Dbacks]

On this day in 2001, Matt Williams kept the season alive.

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In 1985, Yogi Berra agreed to manage the Yankees again on one condition. George Steinbrenner had to promise not to fire him during the season.

Sixteen games in, Steinbrenner fired him.

That isn't what made Berra angry.

Steinbrenner didn't do it himself. He sent general manager Clyde King to the clubhouse to deliver the news.

So Yogi Berra, a man with ten World Series rings, more than any player in history, walked out of Yankee Stadium and did not come back for fourteen years.

He didn't stop being a Yankee fan. His son Larry described what it actually looked like.

"Dad watched every Yankee game at home. We'd watch all the games on TV and he always rooted for them. He would just not go to Yankee Stadium until he was apologized to."

People kept trying to fix it. Friends called. Executives called. It never worked, because it was never George making the call.

Then in January 1999, Steinbrenner got on a plane from Florida and drove out to a small museum in Little Falls, New Jersey, and sat down with Yogi and his wife Carmen.

He said it plainly.

"I didn't realize how much I'd screwed up. It was a monumental mistake on my part. Yogi is a highly principled man. I messed up. It was the worst mistake I made in all my years in baseball."

He also admitted who'd been in his ear about it. Joe DiMaggio, near the end of his life, kept pointing a finger at him and telling him he had to get Yogi back.

Berra's answer took about ten seconds.

"It's over. Fourteen years is long enough. I forgive you, George. Don't worry about it. I've made a lot of mistakes in my baseball career too."

Then he gave Steinbrenner a 45 minute tour of the museum.

On July 18, 1999, the Yankees held Yogi Berra Day. He rode into the stadium in a vintage convertible in a coat and tie, grinning.

Don Larsen threw out the first pitch. Berra caught it, the same way he'd caught Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, the only one ever thrown in the postseason.

The starting pitcher that afternoon was David Cone. Before the game he asked Larsen if he'd run out and jump into Yogi's arms to recreate the famous photo.

"You got it wrong, kid," Larsen told him. "He jumped into my arms."

Then Cone went out and threw a perfect game.

Eighty eight pitches. He never reached a three-ball count on a single hitter. The sixteenth perfect game in the history of baseball, on the day Yogi Berra came home, with Berra's retired number 8 painted behind home plate.

"You probably have a better chance of winning the lottery than this happening," Cone said.

Nine years later, when the old Yankee Stadium closed for good, Yogi Berra walked back out onto that field one more time and the place came apart.

Now you know why.

[OldTimeHardball @OleTimeHardball]

Tony Gwynn (career)

.302 vs Nolan Ryan
.312 vs Tom Glavine
.314 vs Pedro Martinez
.390 vs Curt Schilling
.429 vs Greg Maddux
.462 vs John Smoltz

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: Stan Kroenke & Kroenke Sports and Entertainment have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a controlling interest in the Los Angeles Angels from Arte Moreno.

Kroenke will now own controlling interests in the Rams (NFL), Angels (MLB), Nuggets (NBA), Avalanche (NHL) and Arsenal.

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Willie Mays is the only player ever with 3,000 hits, a .300 average, 300 home runs, and 300 stolen bases.

His real line reads 3,293 hits, .301, 660 homers, and 339 steals.

Nobody else checks all four boxes.

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Willie Mays finished his career stumbling around the outfield for the Mets in 1973 instead of retiring a Giant, and Thurman Munson's career was cut short by a plane crash in 1979 before he ever got a final season.

Not every legend gets the storybook finish.