The Greater home run- Pujols/Lidge or Adams/Kershaw.

[Whatashame]

Of the two, I think the Pujols HR was better than the Adams HR but I was in the LF bleachers the day Ozzie hit his HR off the Dodgers to win that playoff game. It was a home game and the crowd went absolutely crazy. No one wanted to leave. Was in the bleachers at least a half an hour later. Ushers were trying to get everyone out and nobody wanted to leave.

I think the whole idea of Ozzie walking that game off had something to do with it. He obviously wasn’t a HR hitter and had NEVER hit a HR left handed until then. It wasn’t a blast but a ball that hit a pillar above the wall. Will never forget it.

[Strummer Jones]

I've decided not to talk about past players, or Cardinal events until I see some present commitment and competence- unless it relates in some way to the present. If they have a good off-season I would be willing to relax that stance.

Here's that attention you ordered.

[ronnie76]

For me, it's the Pujols HR. If I remember the sequence of that 9th inning correctly, there were two outs and the bases were empty for Eckstein, who singled. Edmonds worked a walk. And then The Shot Deep into the Heart of Texas.

If I could relive one home run in Cardinals history for the first time again, it's that one. Edmonds' walk-off against Miceli a close second. (Sorry, was too young for Ozzie's '85 HR so don't have that personal attachment like the others.)

Freese?

[Lloyd Braun]

Adams and it ain't even close! One of the home runs resulted in a WS and the other just delayed the inevitable by 2 days!

Agree. Adam’s and it’s not close. For me also while the pujols home run was big to me it’s not super surprising it’s Albert pujols one of the greatest players ever for him to come up clutch while exciting isn’t shocking. Matt Adam’s of all people hitting a home run lefty on lefty against a future hall of fame pitcher and probably the best pitcher of his generation was absolutely shocking and mind blowing and as you said helped advance the cardinals in the post season. It was almost as shocking as taguchis go ahead home run against Billy Wagner in 2006

We got eliminated in 5 games in the NLCS in 2014 after Adams' HR. We went 1-4 after that in the NLCS

Pujols' HR won us a 2nd game in the NLCS in 2005, meaning we went further in postseason.

Maybe more importantly, it guaranteed us another home game at the late great Busch II. Everyone got to plan their goodbye more accordingly

I vote for Pujols... on top of the fact that down 2 runs, 2 outs in the ninth in an elimination game is far more impressive and a bigger turnaround. If we lose that Adams game... we still have game 5. If Pujols doesn't homer, season over.

[rockondlouie]

Good morning.

Here’s one never debated here. The bigger or better home run. Some could say Lidge was never the “sane@.” What about Kershaw?

This isn’t a franchise level question- simply between these two at bats.

Thoughts.

I'll add J. Clark off T. Niedenfuer (always love seeing P. Guererro slam his glove to ground on the replays )

But I've never seen a entire stadium of 45,000+ screaming fans all silenced by one player the way Albert did w/his blast.

[dugoutrex]

I saw the 'secret weapon' hit one off San Fran (I think in '87) - that was was even bigger than the Adams blast

Pujols is behind both those imo

[Ozziesfan41]

Adams and it ain't even close! One of the home runs resulted in a WS and the other just delayed the inevitable by 2 days!

Agree. Adam’s and it’s not close. For me also while the pujols home run was big to me it’s not super surprising it’s Albert pujols one of the greatest players ever for him to come up clutch while exciting isn’t shocking. Matt Adam’s of all people hitting a home run lefty on lefty against a future hall of fame pitcher and probably the best pitcher of his generation was absolutely shocking and mind blowing and as you said helped advance the cardinals in the post season. It was almost as shocking as taguchis go ahead home run against Billy Wagner in 2006

We got eliminated in 5 games in the NLCS in 2014 after Adams' HR. We went 1-4 after that in the NLCS

Pujols' HR won us a 2nd game in the NLCS in 2005, meaning we went further in postseason.

Maybe more importantly, it guaranteed us another home game at the late great Busch II. Everyone got to plan their goodbye more accordingly

I vote for Pujols... on top of the fact that down 2 runs, 2 outs in the ninth in an elimination game is far more impressive and a bigger turnaround. If we lose that Adams game... we still have game 5. If Pujols doesn't homer, season over.

Like I said I disagree. The Adam’s home run helped the cardinals eliminate the dodgers and advance to the NLCS The cardinals didn’t advance past the astros even with his home run in that series. I’ll take a home run that helps the team advance to the next series as opposed to the home run that doesn’t change the end result of a series

[dugoutrex]

Adams and it ain't even close! One of the home runs resulted in a WS and the other just delayed the inevitable by 2 days!

Agree. Adam’s and it’s not close. For me also while the pujols home run was big to me it’s not super surprising it’s Albert pujols one of the greatest players ever for him to come up clutch while exciting isn’t shocking. Matt Adam’s of all people hitting a home run lefty on lefty against a future hall of fame pitcher and probably the best pitcher of his generation was absolutely shocking and mind blowing and as you said helped advance the cardinals in the post season. It was almost as shocking as taguchis go ahead home run against Billy Wagner in 2006

We got eliminated in 5 games in the NLCS in 2014 after Adams' HR. We went 1-4 after that in the NLCS

Pujols' HR won us a 2nd game in the NLCS in 2005, meaning we went further in postseason.

Maybe more importantly, it guaranteed us another home game at the late great Busch II. Everyone got to plan their goodbye more accordingly

I vote for Pujols... on top of the fact that down 2 runs, 2 outs in the ninth in an elimination game is far more impressive and a bigger turnaround. If we lose that Adams game... we still have game 5. If Pujols doesn't homer, season over.

do you even read what you post ?

[ronnie76]

Pujols for me, but the Adams' one was huge because it was off Kershaw who'd been insanely dominant against lefties (except Carp and Adams) and it ended the Kershaw threat for the rest of that series. Which, virtually assured a series victory. While Kershaw was pretty dominant in the game up until that point, he was going on very short rest. I think Mattingly stuck with him against Adams, primarily because of the lefty/lefty match up. The Pujols one though was 2 out, down by 2 in the 9th and an absolute bomb.

[Lloyd Braun]

Adams and it ain't even close! One of the home runs resulted in a WS and the other just delayed the inevitable by 2 days!

Agree. Adam’s and it’s not close. For me also while the pujols home run was big to me it’s not super surprising it’s Albert pujols one of the greatest players ever for him to come up clutch while exciting isn’t shocking. Matt Adam’s of all people hitting a home run lefty on lefty against a future hall of fame pitcher and probably the best pitcher of his generation was absolutely shocking and mind blowing and as you said helped advance the cardinals in the post season. It was almost as shocking as taguchis go ahead home run against Billy Wagner in 2006

We got eliminated in 5 games in the NLCS in 2014 after Adams' HR. We went 1-4 after that in the NLCS

Pujols' HR won us a 2nd game in the NLCS in 2005, meaning we went further in postseason.

Maybe more importantly, it guaranteed us another home game at the late great Busch II. Everyone got to plan their goodbye more accordingly

I vote for Pujols... on top of the fact that down 2 runs, 2 outs in the ninth in an elimination game is far more impressive and a bigger turnaround. If we lose that Adams game... we still have game 5. If Pujols doesn't homer, season over.

do you even read what you post ?

Did you? What word wasn't true?

[12xu]

Both of those HR were massive and I remember both of them fondly, but they both pale in comparison to the HR hit by Cardinals in the WS. First in my lifetime as a Cardinal fan was the grand slam hit by Ken Boyer in game 4 of the '64 WS, which
was the deciding blow as the Cards beat the Yankees 4-3. On the very next day, Tim McCarver broke up a 2-2 tie with a 3 run homer in the 10th inning at Yankee Stadium to lead the Cards to a 5-2 victory.

The walk off HR hit by David Freese in 11th inning of the 2011 World Series topped off one of the wildest WS games of all time, and I consider it to be the #1 of Cardinal homers - and of course Freese had tied the game in the 9th with a 2 out, 2 run triple!!

[12xu]

Both of those HR were massive and I remember both of them fondly, but they both pale in comparison to the HR hit by Cardinals in the WS. First in my lifetime as a Cardinal fan was the grand slam hit by Ken Boyer in game 4 of the '64 WS, which was the deciding blow as the Cards beat the Yankees 4-3. On the very next day, Tim McCarver broke up a 2-2 tie with a 3 run homer in the 10th inning at Yankee Stadium to lead the Cards to a 5-2 victory.

The walk off HR hit by David Freese in 11th inning of the 2011 World Series topped off one of the wildest WS games of all time, and I consider it to be the #1 of Cardinal homers - and of course Freese had tied the game in the 9th with a 2 out, 2 run triple!!

[dugoutrex]

Adams and it ain't even close! One of the home runs resulted in a WS and the other just delayed the inevitable by 2 days!

Agree. Adam’s and it’s not close. For me also while the pujols home run was big to me it’s not super surprising it’s Albert pujols one of the greatest players ever for him to come up clutch while exciting isn’t shocking. Matt Adam’s of all people hitting a home run lefty on lefty against a future hall of fame pitcher and probably the best pitcher of his generation was absolutely shocking and mind blowing and as you said helped advance the cardinals in the post season. It was almost as shocking as taguchis go ahead home run against Billy Wagner in 2006

We got eliminated in 5 games in the NLCS in 2014 after Adams' HR. We went 1-4 after that in the NLCS

Pujols' HR won us a 2nd game in the NLCS in 2005, meaning we went further in postseason.

Maybe more importantly, it guaranteed us another home game at the late great Busch II. Everyone got to plan their goodbye more accordingly

I vote for Pujols... on top of the fact that down 2 runs, 2 outs in the ninth in an elimination game is far more impressive and a bigger turnaround. If we lose that Adams game... we still have game 5. If Pujols doesn't homer, season over.

do you even read what you post ?

Did you? What word wasn't true?

'meaning we went further in postseason'

after the Pujols homer we played exactly 1 more game (which we lost)

after the Adams bomb we played a whole 'nother series

[Lloyd Braun]

Adams and it ain't even close! One of the home runs resulted in a WS and the other just delayed the inevitable by 2 days!

Agree. Adam’s and it’s not close. For me also while the pujols home run was big to me it’s not super surprising it’s Albert pujols one of the greatest players ever for him to come up clutch while exciting isn’t shocking. Matt Adam’s of all people hitting a home run lefty on lefty against a future hall of fame pitcher and probably the best pitcher of his generation was absolutely shocking and mind blowing and as you said helped advance the cardinals in the post season. It was almost as shocking as taguchis go ahead home run against Billy Wagner in 2006

We got eliminated in 5 games in the NLCS in 2014 after Adams' HR. We went 1-4 after that in the NLCS

Pujols' HR won us a 2nd game in the NLCS in 2005, meaning we went further in postseason.

Maybe more importantly, it guaranteed us another home game at the late great Busch II. Everyone got to plan their goodbye more accordingly

I vote for Pujols... on top of the fact that down 2 runs, 2 outs in the ninth in an elimination game is far more impressive and a bigger turnaround. If we lose that Adams game... we still have game 5. If Pujols doesn't homer, season over.

do you even read what you post ?

Did you? What word wasn't true?

'meaning we went further in postseason'

after the Pujols homer we played exactly 1 more game (which we lost)

after the Adams bomb we played a whole 'nother series

We went to game 6 of the NLCS and 2 wins from a pennant in 2005

We went only 5 games in the NLCS and 3 wins win from a pennant in 2014

Yes... we went further in 2005 than we did in 2014

[Ozziesfan41]

Adams and it ain't even close! One of the home runs resulted in a WS and the other just delayed the inevitable by 2 days!

Agree. Adam’s and it’s not close. For me also while the pujols home run was big to me it’s not super surprising it’s Albert pujols one of the greatest players ever for him to come up clutch while exciting isn’t shocking. Matt Adam’s of all people hitting a home run lefty on lefty against a future hall of fame pitcher and probably the best pitcher of his generation was absolutely shocking and mind blowing and as you said helped advance the cardinals in the post season. It was almost as shocking as taguchis go ahead home run against Billy Wagner in 2006

We got eliminated in 5 games in the NLCS in 2014 after Adams' HR. We went 1-4 after that in the NLCS

Pujols' HR won us a 2nd game in the NLCS in 2005, meaning we went further in postseason.

Maybe more importantly, it guaranteed us another home game at the late great Busch II. Everyone got to plan their goodbye more accordingly

I vote for Pujols... on top of the fact that down 2 runs, 2 outs in the ninth in an elimination game is far more impressive and a bigger turnaround. If we lose that Adams game... we still have game 5. If Pujols doesn't homer, season over.

do you even read what you post ?

Did you? What word wasn't true?

'meaning we went further in postseason'

after the Pujols homer we played exactly 1 more game (which we lost)

after the Adams bomb we played a whole 'nother series

We went to game 6 of the NLCS and 2 wins from a pennant in 2005

We went only 5 games in the NLCS and 3 wins win from a pennant in 2014

Yes... we went further in 2005 than we did in 2014

If it wasn’t for Adam’s home run they not even advance to the NLCS if it wasn’t for pujols home run well they still wouldn’t advance

[dugoutrex]

Adams and it ain't even close! One of the home runs resulted in a WS and the other just delayed the inevitable by 2 days!

Agree. Adam’s and it’s not close. For me also while the pujols home run was big to me it’s not super surprising it’s Albert pujols one of the greatest players ever for him to come up clutch while exciting isn’t shocking. Matt Adam’s of all people hitting a home run lefty on lefty against a future hall of fame pitcher and probably the best pitcher of his generation was absolutely shocking and mind blowing and as you said helped advance the cardinals in the post season. It was almost as shocking as taguchis go ahead home run against Billy Wagner in 2006

We got eliminated in 5 games in the NLCS in 2014 after Adams' HR. We went 1-4 after that in the NLCS

Pujols' HR won us a 2nd game in the NLCS in 2005, meaning we went further in postseason.

Maybe more importantly, it guaranteed us another home game at the late great Busch II. Everyone got to plan their goodbye more accordingly

I vote for Pujols... on top of the fact that down 2 runs, 2 outs in the ninth in an elimination game is far more impressive and a bigger turnaround. If we lose that Adams game... we still have game 5. If Pujols doesn't homer, season over.

do you even read what you post ?

Did you? What word wasn't true?

'meaning we went further in postseason'

after the Pujols homer we played exactly 1 more game (which we lost)

after the Adams bomb we played a whole 'nother series

We went to game 6 of the NLCS and 2 wins from a pennant in 2005

We went only 5 games in the NLCS and 3 wins win from a pennant in 2014

Yes... we went further in 2005 than we did in 2014

if your sister had balls she'd be your brother - you are a nitwit