Here’s yet another one from BCB reader Clark Addison, and I cropped the photo at the top of the post to take away one significant clue.
Can you figure out which game this is from just the Cubs waiting to greet the walk-off home run hitter at the plate? (It’s obvious it’s a walk-off home run, since that’s the only type of walk-off win where the team is waiting to greet a player.)
The five players identifiable in this photo by uniform are Ben Zobrist, Kris Bryant, Javier Báez, Albert Almora Jr. and Brandon
Morrow.
So that clinches one thing — this has to be 2018, because that’s the only year Morrow played for the Cubs. And he didn’t appear in a game after the All-Star break, so it would have to be before then.
That made this one easy. The Cubs had four walk-off homers in 2018 — rather a lot, really — but only one of those was hit before the All-Star break.
Here’s the uncropped photo that will give you the answer:
This is Jason Heyward’s walk-off grand slam against the Phillies June 6, 2018. The game was tied 3-3 going to the ninth, but Morrow served up a two-run homer to Dylan Cozens — as it turned out, his only MLB home run in 27 total games — and so the stage was set for dramatics, which Heyward provided, and the Cubs won 7-5. It’s no wonder Morrow was so happy.
Heyward hit only eight home runs that year, but that one was certainly exciting. Here’s a video breaking down exactly how that situation set itself up:
