[brodybuck21]

Originally Posted by BB73

No problem. I still remember Warren Morris's walk-off HR in '96. That was the biggest HR ever hit in college, and nobody in MLB has ever hit such a clutch HR.

Not only was it a walk-off CWS winner, but if he had made an out, LSU would have lost the CWS title. Nobody in the major leagues has ever hit a World Series HR in the same situation (it would have to be in Game 7 with two outs in the 9th inning or later, and trailing on the scoreboard). The homers by Bobby Thompson, Bill Mazerowski, and Joe Carter would not have lost the World Series if they had been caught in the outfield.

To me there's a huge difference between a walk-off HR in a tie game, or when there's less than 2 outs, and a walk-off HR where an out means it's all over. And that difference is rarely acknowledged.

Morris's HR is not as legendary as it deserves to be. I didn't remember that because of a broken wrist, it was his first HR of the season.

+1. watched it live and that was truly a CLUTCH hr if there ever was one.