We all have little terms we don't understand at first. Not being all that savvy about baseball, when I saw YouTube videos talking about "walk-off home runs," I somehow thought that meant the batter came up to the plate and hit the first pitch clear out of the park. I don't know why I thought that but I did.
It turns out a "walk-off home run" is any home run that a batter hits that wins the game for his team and therefore causes the opposing team to have to walk off the field in defeat. I would imagine it is a powerful fantasy of every ball player to do this, especially in the World Series.
Fifteen men have hit walk-off home runs in World Series games, sometimes even in the game that clinched the trophy. Here are the fifteen in chronological order…