Most lists of the greatest moments in baseball history are dominated by home runs. There’s the “Shot Heard ‘Round the World”, the two World Series-clinching walk-off home runs, Kirk Gibson hitting a home run when he was barely capable of jogging around the bases—we don’t generally think about the greatest bunts in baseball history, nor the greatest sacrifice flies in baseball history.
But perhaps we should. Rather than ranking the ten most dramatic moments in franchise history, there are instead ten different event types with the best moment chosen of each.
The greatest single—Ken O’Dea’s walk-off single to win Game 2 of the 1944 World Series
Regular season hits like, say, Stan Musial or Lou Brock’s 3000th hits are big highlights, but their impact on the team’s season were dwarfed by big-time postseason ones, and they were not record-setters.