Most Memorable Braves Game You've Been to?

[CharlotteBrave]

After last week, we could use some nostalgia on this board. This typically is not my posting style, and I tend to aire on the side of critical, but it will be interesting to see what you guys say.

Keep in mind, I'm new to the board, so if this is one of those annoying threads that's started once every two weeks, I apologize! :D

For me: it'd have to be game 7 of the NLCS in 1992. I was pretty young (9 years old) at the time, but the atmosphere of Fulton County Stadium that night was as electric as any sporting event I've ever witnessed first hand. The Pirates had the game won, but the Braves kept fighting. I remember having sore hands from hitting the seat in front of me for the entirety of the last two innings. We also did the tomahawk chop for as long as I can ever remember doing it. It seemed like hours.

I wasn't confident when Francisco Cabrera came up to bat, but I remember his hit down the center of the infield, right past the diving Jay Bell like it was yesterday. Bonds in typical fashion trotted to the ball (I guess he thought he'd throw Sid out), but it was too late. Sid slid to home and "BRAVES WIN, BRAVES WIN, BRAVES WIN" was heard constantly for the next few weeks. The stadium went nuts, and the Braves made it to their 2nd consecutive WS. Awesome game, very glad I had the opportunity to see it in person.

What you guys got?

[GeneGarberForPrez]

Mine was Game 6 of the 1991 NLCS in Pittsburgh

The Braves were down 3-2 in the series. Steve Avery and Doug Drabek pitched shutouts into the 9th, when Greg Olsen doubled in Ron Gant for the go ahead run, and Alejandro Pena saved it in the bottom of the 9th.

Not as exciting as if the game were in Atlanta with the home town crowd going nuts, but satisfying nonetheless.

I remember we only paid five bucks to get into the game, and after the game was over, we went around the stadium collecting the souvenir plastic cups people left behind. I still have them.

[Lauren T.]

This isn't my story, but it's still cool... my great-grandfather's brother was telling me on Saturday that he was either at Hank Aaron's record-tying home run game or the record-breaking home run game. He doesn't remember much about the game, but he said he can still hear the crowd. "Everyone was going crazy, just CRAZY!!" I asked my dad if that was true, and my dad said it was, that he'd brought my dad (and his brothers) some leftover popcorn from the game and told them all about it. Very cool. :)

As for my most memorable game... The first that pops to mind was the game where Smoltzie broke the saves record. Electric.

[Andy G.]

This isn't my story, but it's still cool... my great-grandfather's brother was telling me on Saturday that he was either at Hank Aaron's record-tying home run game or the record-breaking home run game. He doesn't remember much about the game, but he said he can still hear the crowd. "Everyone was going crazy, just CRAZY!!" I asked my dad if that was true, and my dad said it was, that he'd brought my dad (and his brothers) some leftover popcorn from the game and told them all about it. Very cool. :)

As for my most memorable game... The first that pops to mind was the game where Smoltzie broke the saves record. Electric.
That is very cool. Those homeruns are bigger than the Braves and baseball.

My most memorable game is probably the comeback win against the Cubs a few weeks ago. All the transplants from Chicago had "Lets Go Cubbies!" chants going all night, and we didn't have much to cheer about threw the first seven innings. The stadium was as loud as I've ever heard in person when Chipper came up in the eighth. He got out, but then the stadium got even louder when Frenchy hit the homerun to tie it. The Cubs fans were silent after that. I also got couple balls in batting practice and a signature from O'Flaherty, and my brother got to be in the "Are You Smarter than a Cubs Fan" thing they did in the center field pavilion, which was a lot of fun to see. Some said it was our best win of the past five or so years. I think I'll remember that one for a very long time.

[Andy G.]

Oh, and CharlotteBrave, this is a great idea for a thread. We could probably use more threads like this one.

[sdp]

I haven't been to many, so it'll have to be the one I went to in September 1995. It was my first time ever. The Braves were playing the Expos. I remember two drunks behind us who bought my brother and myself several souvenirs. That was strange.

My dad thought we had third-base line tickets (he wanted to watch Chipper Jones up close) but our tickets were in the upper deck in left field. lol

There was some sort of poster giveaway that night, most of which ended up being turned into airplanes and thrown at Ryan Klesko in left field.

I don't remember anything about the game though.

[Dreamscape]

Most memorable?

The next one for it would be my first.

[bravos4evr]

I've only been to three in Atlanta ( two at Wrigley),

I was there when we stopped Pete Rose's hit streak ( my first game I wuz 4).

I went to the first game at Turner Field!
I went to the 30th Anniversary of Aaron breaking Ruth's record game.

So they've all been pretty memorable! We lost all but one of those games though...

[Lauren T.]

Forgot to mention... I was also at Smoltz's 3000th strikeout game. However, that wasn't nearly as crazy or awesome as the saves game was. :)

[KB 34]

For me it would be the first Braves game I saw live (in Milwaukee) during the 2003 season. Maddux was getting older but he demonstrated why he was an alltime great several times. Giles and Andruw crushed the ball and the relievers, Bong, Marquis, and Hernandex did good enough to preserve a huge lead. The most famous Braves performance I've seen was Blando hitting a HR but the games are still fun even if they're not classics.

[RiknTN]

Back in the 80's...I came to ATL with 3 other guys for a weekend series. It was raining like hell all Sunday morning so by noon we gave up on the game and headed back home to East TN. About an hour up the road there was the game on the radio.........and it was the game that Pasquel Perez nailed some guy and benches emptied at least twice. I still have that ticket stub somewhere.

Not me, but my 10 yr old daughter (at the time) went to her 1 and only Braves game........the night the press box caught fire and McGriff's debut.

[Wahoo]

Back in the 80's...I came to ATL with 3 other guys for a weekend series. It was raining like hell all Sunday morning so by noon we gave up on the game and headed back home to East TN. About an hour up the road there was the game on the radio.........and it was the game that Pasquel Perez nailed some guy and benches emptied at least twice. I still have that ticket stub somewhere.

Not me, but my 10 yr old daughter (at the time) went to her 1 and only Braves game........the night the press box caught fire and McGriff's debut.

Yeah...that was an amazing game. Even more ironic, I was about 10 at the time as well, LOL.

[RiknTN]

Yeah...that was an amazing game. Even more ironic, I was about 10 at the time as well, LOL.

Maybe I should hook you 2 up.....LOL

[luvdembravos]

Since 1966, I've been to approx. 30-35 Braves' games in 9 different stadiums but none don't even come close to CharlotteBraves' '92 experience which was quite possibly the greatest A-Braves' game of all-time. Who can top that?

Anyway, my most memorable game was probably my first Braves' game in the summer of 1966. As a 9 year old kid, I begged my father (who hated baseball) to take me to Atlanta to see the Braves play the Dodgers. I was so excited and the game was all I could think or talk about for a week prior to the game. The day we traveled to Atlanta was at that point the happiest day of my life! But once the game started, it all went downhill. All I remember is that my favorite player, Felipe Alou, got a base hit off Claude Osteen ... then I fell asleep around the third inning. My Dad carried me out of Fulton County stadium and we never went to another game after that. I had to check the next day's evening paper to see who won (back in those days, morning papers did not capture night game results). Osteen shut out the Braves 4-0.

Edit: Oh, I did witness Andruw Jones breaking the Braves' single season HR record in RFK stadium in September 2005.

[GeneGarberForPrez]

i was there when we stopped pete rose's hit streak ( my first game i wuz 4).


woot!!!

[RiknTN]

I had to check the next day's evening paper to see who won (back in those days, morning papers did not capture night game results).

I remember doing that as a kid. We had a morning and afternoon paper where then. I never cared about the morning paper because all the box scores were in the afternoon paper.

[luvdembravos]

I remember doing that as a kid. We had a morning and afternoon paper where then. I never cared about the morning paper because all the box scores were in the afternoon paper.

LOL...I felt the same way about the morning paper. I had an evening paper route and would always read the sports page - and box scores - before delivering my papers. Furman Bisher was awesome is those days! :D

[argentina brave]

i remember fulton-county stadium very well. i was at game 13 of the 1983 win streak to start the season. the stadium was electric....except that was the first loss of the season :(

also, my first game was in 1980, a doubleheader against the pirates. my dad and i stopped at godfather's pizza, got a big pie, and hunkered down in mid level/behind home plate seats and watched a lot of baseball. willie stargell hit a towering pop up behind us, and it ricocheted down to our section and the guy sitting next to us gave this lucky 8 yr. old his first foul ball.

i remember seeing jermaine dye hit his first home run, and the unveiling of 'new coke' circa 1985, at a game where i got jim acker's autograph, along with doyle alexander's. i also got andre dawson's autograph at that game. he was/is the nicest player i ever met. (for that brief period of time at least)

also, i remember my college roommate skipping drama class at uga, and driving through the night to riverfront stadium to see the braves in 1991 during the pennant stretch, when gant homered off of one of the nasty boys , and i saw him on tv with a braves banner in cincy. braves fever was huge then...around the time otis made that catch.