I’ll never forget what still is my favorite regular season baseball game ever, the July 4th-5th Braves vs Mets game in ATL in 1985. I wonder if Tim saw this. If a 90 minute rain delayed start, several more rain delays, Manager Davey Johnson and Darryl Strawberry being tossed out of the game, Keith Hernandez hitting for the cycle, the Braves being down 7-4 going to the bottom of the 8th and scoring 4 to go ahead, Bruce Sutter allowing the Mets to tie it at 8 in the top of the 9th to send it to extra innings, and the Braves scoring 2 in the bottom of the 13th on a homerun that hit the foul pole to tie it at 10 weren’t enough:

 With the Mets having taken an 11-10 lead in the top of the 18th, with 2 outs .060 hitting Rick Camp is up for the Braves because they have no non-pitcher pinch hitters left. The Mets waived their outfielders in and John Sterling literally says with the count 0-1 “Ernie, if he hits a home run to tie this game, this game will be certified as absolutely the nuttiest in the history of baseball.” After the count went to 0-2, Camp takes a big swing and amazingly hits his first and only home run of his career to tie it at 11!!!! And if that’s still not enough, the Mets scored 5 in the top of the 19th. The Braves then scored 2 and then had 2 on base meaning the tieing run was again at the plate in the form of, yep, Rick Camp. But this time he got an out and it was finally over at 3:55 AM, which was followed by the annual big July 4th fireworks display that scared a bunch of already sleeping folks in nearby areas to death. I saw this game on TV and luckily stayed up for it. Here’s the 5 minutes of the bottom of the 18th:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RcZIs1tIGlg