With two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, and the Twins having just given up a two-run lead, fans at Target Field were getting ready to settle in for an extra inning (or a few). Then Joe Mauer did something he'd never done in his 14-year career.
Watch Joe Mauer's first-ever walk-off home run
Take a look at the home run nobody expected that gave the Twins a 4-3 victory over Boston on Friday night.
May 6, 2017 at 12:19PM
Mauer hit a walk-off home run.
Here's the video. We recommend you watch the expressions on people's faces. Mauer's, Boston pitcher Matt Barnes' and a couple of others. We also recommend that you listen to the way Dick Bremer and Jack Morris handled the call in the TV booth. (If it was stunned near-silence, who can blame them?)
If you were among those who recited Jack Buck's words from his Kirk Gibson home run call in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, you weren't the only one thinking, "I don't believe was I just saw."
Here's the game story from Phil Miller.
After an incredible 25-year career that saw him become MLB's all-time stolen bases leader and the greatest leadoff hitter ever, Rickey Henderson died Friday at age 65.
