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In the back-and-forth affair, the game went into extra innings with the score tied 5-5. In the bottom of the tenth, Hall came to the plate with the promotional pink bat used to raise awareness for breast cancer. Hall’s home run gave the Brewers the win, and owner Mark Attanasio paid over $23,000 to buy the bat back in an auction and gave it to Hall’s mother. The Brewers, who wound up securing a .500 record for the first time in 13 years, needed every win. The veteran Mesa was also there for a previous chapter of Brewers history, yielding Yount's 3,000th hit 13 years earlier.
Earlier in the season, Aguilar’s first home run of the year had been a walk-off home run against the Marlins. In that at-bat, he battled for eight minutes and 13 pitches before sending the Brewers home as winners. Even though he was the son of a major leaguer and had demonstrated prodigious power in his Florida high school, the seminal baseball text "Moneyball" had this uproarious nugget from that draft. Fielder spent most of that 2005 season in Class AAA and only finished with two homers all year at the big-league level. But on Aug. 31, his two-run homer into the second deck against Jose Mesa turned a 5-4 deficit into a 6-5 win against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Prince Fielder hits a pinch-hit two-run homer to win the game in the bottom of the ninth inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Aug. 31, 2005.
Prince's 10 most memorable Brewers homers
Fielder hit a home run off Tigers third base coach Terry Francona into the upper deck of Tiger Stadium as a 12-year-old in 1996. He holds the Brewers' team record for home runs and runs batted in in a season and is the youngest player in National League history to hit 50 home runs in a season. He became the first Brewer to win the Home Run Derby, defeating Nelson Cruz in the final round of the 2009 derby. Fielder also won the 2012 derby, joining Ken Griffey Jr. and Yoenis Céspedes as the only players to win more than one derby and becoming the first player to win the Derby as both an American League and NL All-Star. Fielder finished tied for first in the National League in RBIs with Ryan Howard, and second in home runs with 46.
Chris Iott of MLive.com notes that Fielder is the first player to hit the C-ring catwalk at Tropicana Field since Baltimore’s Chris Davis did it last October 1. The official estimate on Fielder’s blast is 414 feet, which makes you wonder where it would have ended up if the catwalk didn’t get in the way. On April 5, 2012, Fielder made his debut with the Tigers and singled in his first at bat. Fielder became one of three Brewers who have had four 100-RBI seasons, along with Cecil Cooper and Braun. On January 18, Fielder and the Brewers agreed on a one-year, $15.5 million contract. Fielder was named MVP of the 82nd All Star Game, in which he hit a 3-run home run.
Prince Fielder's greatest hits as a member of the Milwaukee Brewers include these 11 memorable moments
July 20, 2016 Texas Rangers placed DH Prince Fielder on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to July 19, 2016. August 1, 2016 Texas Rangers transferred DH Prince Fielder from the 15-day disabled list to the 60-day disabled list. November 7, 2016 Texas Rangers activated DH Prince Fielder from the 60-day disabled list. February 14, 2017 Texas Rangers placed DH Prince Fielder on the 60-day disabled list.
Those who aren't Brewers fans might be stunned to learn he has two inside-the-park home runs on his résumé. As Fielder jumped onto home plate, his gathered teammates all fell backward like a bomb had exploded, leaving a triumphant Fielder standing in the midst of it all, holding his hands to the sky. The Rockies didn’t figure to need their fists to fight back with the victory clenched in their fingers after six innings.
Playoff Prince
Fielder, by the way, also has the second-most homers in a season when he hit 46 in 2009. Richie Sexson's 45 in 2001 and 2003, as well as Gorman Thomas' 45 in 1979, are the closest seasons to Fielder. Fielder also developed a reputation for durability, playing at least 157 games in all six of his full seasons with the club and all 162 twice. When approaching home plate, Fielder and teammates did a little pantomime of the rotund outfielder bowling them all over. It was cute enough, but everyone is weighing on whether it was all just a little undignified. Certainly angry were the San Francisco Giants, none of whom went on record but many of whom took steps to let Fielder and fans know they disapproved of his antics.
However, a relay throw from Gregor Blanco to Marco Scutaro to Buster Posey tagged Fielder out as he was sliding home. Fielder was initially right-handed, but at a very young age was converted to being a left-handed hitter by his father, baseball player Cecil Fielder. Fielder was a fixture around his father's teams' clubhouses growing up. When his father played for Detroit, Prince would sometimes come along for batting practice.
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After smashing out a 12th run walk-off home run against the San Francisco Giants, the Milwaukee Brewers' slugger did a celebration that would be more at place in the NFL than the MLB. After completing one of the greatest seasons and winning the AL MVP, Judge agreed to a nine-year, $360 million contract with the Yankees. Tulowitzki objected to LaTroy Hawkins’ quick pitch in the eighth inning.
On July 1, Fielder was voted in as a reserve infielder in the AL player balloting for the 2013 Major League All-Star Game. During the All-Star Game, he hit a lead-off triple in the ninth inning off of Jason Grilli. He did not score but the American League still won the game 3–0.
He was named by Florida Today as the All-Space Coast Player of the Year in 2002. Fielder committed to play college baseball for Arizona State. We'll go with the second for this list because it happened in front of the home fans.
He made the finals with 17 home runs after the first two rounds, eliminating local favorites Albert Pujols and Ryan Howard. He then beat former Brewers teammate Nelson Cruz with six homers in the final round. His 23 long balls tied for the sixth-most in the Derby's history. He also hit the longest home run of the Derby at 503 feet . Fielder ended the 2008 regular season with a .276 batting average, 34 home runs, 102 RBIs, 86 runs and 84 walks.
Under the watchful eye of umpire Rob Drake, right, the Colorado Rockies' Ty Wigginton beats the throw to Milwaukee Brewers catcher Mike Rivera to score in the fifth inning at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Friday, May 20, 2011.
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