Oakland Park Baseball

I know somebody is going to diss me for asking this question but I want to know.

What is a walk off HR? (I'm guessing it's not hitting a HR and immediately leaving the field.)

My intuition tells me that it's when the first batter of the inning hits a home run.

However, my logic says I must be incorrect. I noticed that the record book part of the web page lists walk-off hr as a separate stat/record. It seems to me that if batting order within an inning solely distinguishes a walk-off hr (something the batter has no control over I must note), it would hardly merit a separate statistic or record.

A walk off homer is a homer that wins the game, usually happens in the bottom of the 9th. There's a homer, and the game is over.

The term was made up by Dennis Eckersly, the old closer of the A's. It is a scenario when a game is ended immediately following a game-winning Home Run. By definition, it has to be hit by the home team, in the bottom of the final inning. There can be any number of outs, all that matters is that, with one swing of the bat, the home team wins the game, and the defense (including the pitcher who gave up the HR) then "walks off" the field, because the game is over.

I'm not sure whether he made up the term before or after serving up the walk-off HR to Kirk Gibson in 1988.

Baseball=Life wrote: I'm not sure whether he made up the term before or after serving up the walk-off HR to Kirk Gibson in 1988.

I donno, but thats some good trivia.

Scott, I normally don't point out when you misspell things, but you can't diss Eckersley like that.