Last At-Bat Home Runs
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- čas přidán 21. 04. 2022
- Notable MLB players who hit a home run in their final official at-bat (Regular Season or Postseason).
Ted Williams
Albert Belle
Troy O'Leary (2003 NLCS Gm 7)
Todd Zeile
Bobby Kielty (2007 World Series Gm 4)
Gustavo Chacin
Jim Edmonds
Adam Kennedy
Juan Rivera
Ramon Hernandez
Chad Tracy
Francisco Peguero
Nyjer Morgan
Brad Snyder
Nick Evans
Ramon Santiago
Corey Hart
Dan Uggla
David Ross (2016 World Series Gm 7)
Ian Kinsler
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Never knew Ted Williams didn’t have 3,000 hits. But I’m sure he would have it if he didn’t have to serve in the military.
Yes, Ted lost out on 3 years when he was right in his prime.
@@Brockton153 Lost most of another two seasons due to the Korean War, too
@@Khaoki as a Korean
Ted williams will always be my hero
Interestingly enough he never had a 200 hit season despite batting. 400 twice
Probably hits close to 650 hrs as well if not for that.
The saddest part is how few of these players knew that this was going to be their final at bat.
still has to feel good as a player to end your career with a clutch hit
Yes it must be awful knowing you’re never gonna lace em up again. Getting old can be depressing at times. At least they made some decent loot.
I still love watching Jim Edmonds swing a baseball bat. His swing just looks so smooth.
One of my all time favorites 👽
Defensively one of the smoothest and underrated CF of all time
@@PapaShongo25 No doubt about that. Dude was epic.
@@PapaShongo25 not in the booth though 😬
Gustavo Chacin was a relief pitcher
Also that was Peguero's only HR and RBI lmao
Also wtf I had absolutely no idea Ramon Santiago hit a walk off grand slam in his final AB, dude is a Detroit legend but he only hit 30 career HRs so it's wild that he hit one in his last AB and it was a walkoff slam
"Like a feather caught in a vortex, Williams ran around the square of bases at the center of our beseeching screaming. He ran as he always ran out home runs-hurriedly, unsmiling, head down, as if our praise were a storm of rain to get out of. He didn’t tip his cap. Though we thumped, wept, and chanted 'We want Ted' for minutes after he hid in the dugout, he did not come back. Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a wailing, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the other players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he never had and did not now. Gods do not answer letters."
Ramon Santiago's last at bat being a walk off grand slam is so cool. He got to play with Ichiro, Miguel Cabrera, Justin Verlander, Joey Votto in his career. He's got a lot to tell his grandkids.
I've watched a lot of baseball, and seen a lot of hitters. But to this day, when people ask me who had the prettiest swing, I have two answers: Griffey and Edmonds. One, because their follow throughs were pretty similar, but also because their homeruns just seemed to move off the bat a little faster, and go just a little higher. When Jimmy got one it always felt like it was goin to the moon!
Those two were also two of the slickest most gifted centerfielders of their generation. I loved watching both of them play.
Edmonds had this smooth, quiet swing… that looked so pretty from the left side. As far as prettiness goes with home runs, I haven’t seen a left handed swing like it since he retired.
@@daniellee3275 That diving catch Edmonds had over his head should be saved in the HoF, it was the web gem to end them all!
@@NikoXC08 Dylan Carlson is fairly close. Plays for the Cardinals.
I doubt Jimmy Griffen hit bombs like Barry Bond.
I'm very proud to say that David Ross homered in game 7 off of ME in the greatest world series game ever in his last major league at bat! .........and before you comment, I'm no relation to THIS Andrew Miller. Just a coincidence. It was really weird hearing my name so much, that post season, especially during the World Series!
Can you give your salary back to the Cardinals?
Immediately thought of Ross when I saw this title go Cubs!!
did anyone else go into this video thinking it would be a lot of celebrations of great careers only to realize that it was mostly players who did not realize their career would end soon, which somewhat made it tragic.
As a reds fan the jim Edmonds home run made me laugh. I watched it live as a kid and I remember he injured himself hitting the home run and thus never played again
As a Cubs fan, was really glad to see Ross hit that homer. Big Edmonds fan too, so that was cool. Got a new subscriber. Was fun to watch. Great video
0:54 This was also the final game for the Montreal Expos.
Albert Belle. No doubt if he hadn't got hurt with the hip condition, he would have hit over 500 home runs. He retired with 380 or so. When he signed with the White Sox and played with them in the 1997 and 1998 seasons, him and Frank Thomas were supposed to lead the Sox to multiple AL Central titles but it never happened. Belle had a mediocre 1997 season while Thomas had an excellent one. Belle had a great 1998 season while Thomas had a mediocre one. They just couldn't sync. I believe Belle still holds the White Sox single season records for HR and RBI at 49 and ~148?
It's a shame. He may have wound up with a Hall of Fame career if not for that hip issue forcing him into a early retirement.
@@Yyyyzyyy Rice barely got in with like a little over 76% of the vote. Rice had about 700 more hits and 200 more RBI than Belle; and won MVP while Belle did not. Rice was also known for the memorable event when he carried the boy who got hit in the head with a line drive to the Red Sox dugout where their medical staff could render aid immediately instead of waiting for paramedics. Rice also did a lot of charity work. Belle was an asshole to the media, went to alcohol rehab, got suspended for using a corked bat, arrested for trying to run down kids who egged his house, arrested for DUI and gave Fernando Vina a forearm shiver running from first to second. No way he would ever get voted in when factoring in he didn't play a full career.
@@Yyyyzyyy hip issues is usually caused by steroid use
Belle was juiced to the gills.
Belle was robbed of an MVP too by the media. Underrated player at the end of the day.
Walk-off grand slam for your last at bat? Can't beat that!
Some MLB The Show type stuff there
“Nyjer Morgan says… so long.” Did that announcer know that would be that poetic???
wow man I might have to bust out MVP Baseball 2005 for PS2 again ... so many dudes on here are in that game
Atta baby Albert bele.. popping one without cork in the bat .. holla atcha boiii!! Peep my boy Todd Zeile doe.. professionalism at its finest
My two favorites were the grand slam by Reds player, Santiago... how can you beat a grand slam as your final at bat? Well, David Ross' home run in the final game of the World Series where the cubs finally won it after something like 108 years. That's awesome!
5/10/22, 7:25 p.m.
Alternate title: Last at bat Home Runs but the quality gets better every clip
clicked on this just to watch David Ross... Go Cubs!
I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith as there's a high fly ball by Jim Edmonds and it'll be a 1-0 ballgame. I don't know if I'm going to be putting on this headset again. I don't know if it's going to be for the Reds. I don't know if it's going to be for my bosses at Fox.
I’ve never really been a Ball fan but God I love that sound. Crack!
After reading the title, one would assume these were going to be emotional farewells to great players. I didn’t realize we were including lower tier level players being cut from the team 😂
The problem with that is how many great players final at bat was a home run.
I doubt there are many.
I always loved Jim Edmonds swing. So sweet
This would be exponentially more entertaining/watchable with the simple addition of an overlay graphic with the name of the player as each at bat begins.
True but it’s in the description
So get to work
I prefer it more without it. Not everything has to be shoved in your face, dumbed down
@@johngoldsworthy7135 It's not a matter of "dumbing down" so much as it is a recognition that not every player is immediately recognizable by sight anymore.
@@mactheknife7049 And a bunch of them don't have the names announced, at least in full.
"440-foot blast into the bullpen"
*Shows 420-foot sign deeper than the bullpen*
Tony Kubek also hit a homer in his last career at bat. He played for the Yankees but is known mostly for his long and excellent career as a tv analyst. His most famous on air partnership was with the legendary Curt Gowdy on NBC’s MLB Game of the Week.
Had no idea Jim Edmonds was on the Reds
He did a whole vacation through out the nl central
@@JDealio yep I’m pretty sure the only NL central team he didn’t play for is the pirates
I was fortunate to see the Cardinals and Padres game in S.D. years ago. It was(to me) his prime as a center fielder. He had a catch when he turned around in a full sprint and made an amazing over the head catch and he just got destroyed by the wall. Like he usually did, he caught it, threw it back in like nothing even happened. I have no opinion of the guy one way or another but it was probably the best catch I’ve seen in person!!!!
@@inlinechris and Astros
Ted Williams and I were both Marines. In 1979 when I was in spring training with the Detroit Tigers, I met Ted Williams and I asked him about his home run in his last at bat. It is a conversation that I will never forget! If he did not lose 3 full seasons to World War II and parts of 2 seasons to the Korean War, he would have easily had more than 3,000 hits and he would have set the home run record that Hank Aaron broke in 1974.
Yes, he would have had 3K hits, but he probably would not have set the home run record. He was 193 home runs short of Ruth, which means that he would have needed to hit something over 38 homers a season in the years he missed. Williams only had one season in his career with more than 38 home runs.
@@roberthudson1959 Robert, you are right. I just looked at his stats. He hit 43 home runs in one season. I noticed his RBI total. He definitely would have had more than 2,000 RBI's.
John
@@24JohnENo problem. The claim that Williams would have passed Ruth is so old and well-accepted that no one does the math.
Interesting video
Crazy that Uggla’s home run came when Scherzer threw a no no
man there's alot of names I haven't thought of in a long time
Fun Fact: Jim Edmonds hit a home run for his last at bat because he injured hisself rounding the bases!! (not “fun” but a fact!)
I got a kick out of Chacin being included. Dude had 9 career plate appearances and this was his only hit.
Not shown but I’m pretty sure Edmonds pulled something going around third base and subsequently went on the DL for the rest of the season, then retired
the announcer is very enthusiastic in ted williams homer
I completely forgot that Jim Edmonds played for my Reds at one point.
Yes, the fruits of the Chris Dickerson trade
Rivera...straight center, can't get more down the middle than that shot.
Just saw a guy named Nick Evans. I told him he's on the list. He didn't even know he played.
So after the Ted Williams home run, we get to see a bunch of okay to nobody players
wow Troy O'Leary ... totally forgot about that dude
Gustavo Chacin's only hit of his career! neat!
Sad for most these guys.
Had no idea Jim Edmonds played in Cincy
Cody Ross had the best last home run
I had no idea Albert Belle went out like that...... Who was the Chicago Cub at 0:38? Weird Edmonds was on Cincinnati for his last MLB Homers. 4:00 Ramon Santiago GRAND SLAM, has to be the first and only to do that in their last AB. Uggla had a pretty good career going until 2014-15. At least he went out in style. 235 career Homers. Kinsler's last Hit/HR in the majors was his 1,999th.
38 seconds in was Troy O'Leary
@@greendayrock Thanks for that quick reply
Imagine your last ever ab is a walk off grand slam
Is this last career at-bats or last at-bats of a game?
some of these are in like the 2nd and 3rd innings, like edmonds. they take themselves out after that?
Edmonds got hurt in that game, and the injury pretty much ended his career.
@@penguinbrony2415 oh shit good looks
Ramon Santiago 💪
U gotta do Mookie Bets next I know broski abouta be outta here
Sorry, I just saw Chad Tracey. Lol. Should put last at bats that you can find. Includes call ups, and pitchers.
Damn a Troy O'Leary sighting
ikr dude, that one threw me for a loop
What a way to end a career with a walk off grand slam.
Walk off grand slam?? What a way to go.
I wonder how many knew it would be their last at bats?
Mel Hall & Chad Curtis
Was hoping to see more stars final HR. Too many no names in this video.
Pretty sure Todd Zeile hit a HR in his first MLB at-bat as well.
Yep he is in the video
I thought Corey Hart wears his sun glasses at night
Cant really go out much Better than Ramon Santiago did.
bobby kielty is my friend's dad... learn more every day
They left out Chico Walker in 1993.
Corey Hart wearing a Pirates uniform…
he wears his sunglasses at night
better as a brewer 🤧
what, you couldn't find any film of Shane Victorino or Kevin Maas anywhere? This list, SMH LOL
Nyger Morgan doesn't play anymore? Who knew?
Reported for racism
Walk off grand slam is probably the best way to end your career
Why was Edmond's last at bat in the 2nd inning? Did he get hurt after?
Uh, he got hurt when he touched 🏠
How is a home run in the 8th inning a “last at bat” home run?
Last at bat in a player's career
@@greendayrock ahhh. Ok. Title is a bit confusing. But some of these players are barely recognizable.
@@jaym3064 "barely recognizable" dont disrespect my boy Nick Evans like that
objectively this is a video of a bunch of players whose bat speed and athleticism has no business being in MLB :)
Me ( a baseball purest ) during most of the video : .. “ who .. ? “
I think some of these were not last at bats.
all of them were, there's a wikipedia article dedicated to players who homered in their final major league at bat
Bobby Kelty? Tons of minor league players hit home runs in there only at bat.
That was interesting.... What is a Nick Evans?
Google Nick Evans soccer...basketball...football...baseball
Guy only had 10 home runs in his career.
huh neat.
Too bad Ross turned out to be such a mediocre manager for the Cubs. A lot of people were rooting for him to succeed. He's considered a hero.
So just end your career as a dodger and youll have a homerun on the last at bat of your career.
inpaindaily
no Matt Holliday booo
Jesus saves
Alot of no name people in here, thought it was going to be all the stars
It's guys who hit a homer in the last at bat of their careers.
@@gregoryfarshtey6856 I was hoping to see more stars then that.
The Dodgers announcer sounds so bored.
Is this another stupid "unwritten rule" of baseball? Pitch the hacks a floater because it's their last at-bat?