Ken Griffey Jr.’s best MLB moments | SportsCenter

on this dates back in 2008 pots been 12 years already ken griffey jr. one of if not the sweetest swinging in baseball history hit home run number 600 in his career that was down in Miami I remember that well he was in a brass utiful don't require asking where you were I did ask for that was down April 10th 1989 Ken Griffey junior top 10 the best junior moments that's his four first career home run at the Kingdome deep and gone there would be so many more to come number nine may 25th 1991 Robin Robin Ruben Sierra one the spider-man catch into the gap in right-center field the kid on his worth back to the morning he is down at the 380 marker and it's one of the most incredible caches you will ever want to see robbing Ruben you say that's it Sunfest number at least once I'll just skip it I remember this vividly 93 home run derby all-star break Camden Yards no one had hit the warehouse until junior hit the warehouse 465 feet hat backwards earring in the ear junior joke the wind must have been blowing July at 93 that was going out here to an eight game home run Street beginning on July 20th Griffey one of the greatest hot streets in baseball gigantic Yankee Stadium because he went deep in each of the final two games of the series then he would homer and the Mariners next four games at Cleveland stadium and then at home against the twins he matched the Major League Baseball records share by Don Mattingly in Dale long for the most consecutive games with a home run teen all those situations the wind is clearly blowing out obviously in the number six June 22nd oh seven Griffey getting his homecoming welcome back in Seattle listen it never that I imagined that it would be like this coming back remember the Cincinnati Reds five hits across the three games set including a multi homerun effort in the series finale good to see Jake Muller make the show using the background an end sound bite their evil is how about number five June 20 of 2004 it's Father's Day and it's number 500 griffeys 500th career home run is dad it's family in the 10 - right feel the time becoming xx player to reach the 500 home run bug and there he goes gonna find dad and if you're not crying [Applause] number 4 April 26 1990 one of the best home run robberies ever was a Yankee Stadium Jesse Barfield bidding for a Tater Tot uh uh and look at how happy he was how excited he was he was so young making that play bar just standing there what happened you know he was pitching and it almost served up that that ding-dong there Randy Johnson Hall of Famers helping all the Famers there June night this is the one that inspired this list it was on this day milestone the six hundred home Ryman final game of the four-game series the Marlins came to sixth player in MLB history to reach 600 home runs and finished his career with 630 I see I thought you were gonna say that you were in Miami because you were at the game because you're always bragging about oh I see that's where I thought you were going cousin Fort Myers Yankees five home runs in this series the Mariners took down the Yankees first player to hit that many homers in a postseason series since Reggie Jackson hit five during the 1977 Fall Classic again this was the division series five games now eleventh inning of the deciding Game five Seattle's down five for Edgar Martinez what else does he do double down the left-field line here goes Griffey waved from first bases trying to score it he's and he gets mobbed and that is how they walk it off that is how they advanced in the postseason and back to back dad and son September 14 1990 Griffey senior and junior back to back a first.we senior yard to left-center then comes son he's gonna send it out as well first inning against the cat the California Angels Angels here I just want to meet the person I had to narrow that down to Ted thank you for watching ESPN on YouTube from live-streaming sports and premium content subscribe to ESPN Plus

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Length: 4min 49sec (289 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 09 2020