No. By definition, a walk-off home run is a home run that ends
the game. Therefore, a walk-off home run can only be hit by the
home team in the bottom half of an inning.
No. By definition, a walk-off home run is a home run that ends
the game. Therefore, a walk-off home run can only be hit by the
home team in the bottom half of an inning.
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It's called a pinch-hit walk-off home run.
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A walk-off home run is a home run that ends the game. It must be
the run that gives the home team the lead in the final inning of
the game.
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A walk off home run occurs when a player on the home team hits a home run and the visitors walk off the field because it is officially the last play of that game. For example, in the 1988 World Series, Kirk Gibson, a player on the Los Angeles Dodgers hit a walk off home run to end that game in the series.
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A walk-off home run is a home run which ends the game. This is a phrase that has only recently entered the baseball lexicon, believed to have been started by Dennis Eckersley of the Oakland Athletics after Kirk Gibson hit a home run off of him in the bottom of the ninth inning in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series to win the game. If the home team hits a home run to win the game in the 9th or an extra inning, both teams walk off the field since the game is over. A walk-off home run is a home run in the bottom of the last inning that ends the game. A walk-off home run is a home run that ends the game. It must be a home run that gives the home team the lead in the bottom of the 9th inning or the bottom of any extra inning. It is called a "walk-off" home run because the teams walk off the field immediately afterward.