Personal Narrative Essay: Walk-Off Home Running

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“I don’t believe what I just say!” “It’s out of here, Flores ends it with a home run!” “3000, history, with an exclamation point!” “Touch ‘em all Joe, you’ll never hit a bigger home run in your life!” Jack Buck’s call on Kurt Gibson’s famous home run that scent the Dodgers to the 1988 National League Championship Series, the dramatic twelfth inning walk-off home run by Wilmer Flores called by Gary Cohen, Michael Kay’s famous call of Derek Jeter’s three thousandth hit, or who can forget Tom Cheek’s call after Joe Carter had hit a walk-off home run to win the Blue Jays the 1993 World Series. All sports fan know the adrenaline rush they get when their favorite team comes up with a big score late in the game or when they witness an incredible …show more content…
The tension in baseball is more significant because all eyes are on two people, the pitcher and the hitter. A few years back we were facing elimination in our area Stars of Tomorrow tournament and we were down by three going into the last inning. The coach called me over and he was going to have me and another pinch-hit, and our task was to start a rally off of a pitcher who seemed untouchable. The in front of me struck out, so it was up to me to get the team momentum. The stacks were at its highest and me and that pitch battled for what seemed like an eternity, pitch after pitch. I worked the count to 2-2 and you could just feel the intensity growing with each pitch, and then after about ten pitches I hit a single back up the middle and got the team rolling, we lost the game it was a great experience and some parents were telling me that it was the best at-bat they’ve ever seen by a thirteen year-old. The intensity of the moment was unforgettable, and in no other sport would I have had the same type of …show more content…
During Terence Mann’s speech in the movie Field of Dreams he said, “The constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball,” and he was absolutely correct. Looking back in time after WWII the thing that people looked to get America back on track was baseball, after 9/11 just days after the towers went down the Mets and the Braves played the first game after that tragic day and Mike Piazza hit a go ahead home run that seemed to reinstall the hope that everything was going to be okay not just to New Yorkers but to all American. I leave you with this, “Baseball was, is, and always will be to me the best game in the world,” Babe
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