On May 23, 2002, Shawn Green had the greatest single game by a position player in Major League Baseball history, and set or tied nearly a half dozen records along the way. Follow us on Twitter: / baseballquotes1
@@themouse6539 not a sick squad per se but sick individual talents. That squad had sick individual talents but the squad couldn’t put it together to make a sick squad as they should have been.
I actually remember watching this game when I was like 10 or 11. They were in Milwaukee. I watched it KCAL Channel 9. Where every game started with Vin Scully going “It’s time for Dodger Baseball…”
What a chad! No bat flips. No slow trot around the bases while watching the ball. No ridiculous pointing to the sky when crossing home plate. True professional.
Underrated player for sure. Great swing and totally unpretentious too. Had he played in another (read: cleaner) era he might've been a perennial MVP and Hall of Famer.
I remember hearing the game on the radio between stops at my work. (I was a courier at the time and would listen when driving from one stop to the next.) When the opposition's home crowd gives you a standing ovation, you did something very very special.
@@BaseballQuotes1 9 homers in a 5 game stretch has gotta be a record. He may have had the best week in MLB history. Would take a hell of a lot of research to figure out though.
Excellent video. Thank you. One correction: the major league record for hits in a game is seven. Rennie Stennett went seven for seven against the Cubs in 1975.
Maybe the best offensive MLB game, but the best offensive baseball game in history is Marshall MacDougal for Florida State against Maryland. 7 for 7 with 6 HRs and a single. He had 16 RBI and 25 total bases in just one game. Incredibly the wind was blowing in the entire game. He made it to MLB with the Rangers but suffered a wrist injury that forced him out of baseball.
Great video! He was a complete player and played the game the right way. He still holds the Dodgers franchise record of 49 home runs in a season! After he left the Dodgers and signed with Arizona (I think the Dodgers did not want to resign him) he was always booed by the Dodger fans when he returned to Dodger Stadium. I never could understand that! He was a great player for them, the team did not make him an offer and he was always a classy and unselfish player! Perhaps someone can explain the reason or are Dodgers fans just plain stupid?
