Walk-off Homers in Scoreless Extra-Inning Games

UPDATE (7-29): There is a new entry on the list! Yasiel Puig demolished a baseball in the 11th inning yesterday to give the Dodgers a 1-0 win over Cincinnati. His was the 47th 0-0 extra-inning walk-off homer since 1945.


Milwaukee's Caleb Gindl hit his first major league home run yesterday, and it just happened to be a bottom of the 13th game-winner that snapped a scoreless tie.

Video here

Using the Baseball-Reference Play Index, I looked up extra-inning walk-off homers since 1945 that came in a 0-0 game. Gindl's was the 46th such dinger, the first since Brett Lawrie of the Blue Jays went deep off Boston's Dan Wheeler in the 11th inning on September 5, 2011.

All 46 0-0 extra-inning walk-offs are listed at the bottom, but since Gindl hit his in the 13th, I wanted to narrow it further just to see the games that were scoreless for as long as today's game. This was the tenth 0-0 homer in the 13th inning or later (since '45):

Date	Hitter	Team	Opp	Pitcher	Inn	Outs/RoB
7/21/2013	Caleb Gindl	MIL	MIA	Ryan Webb	13	0 out ---
8/7/2009	Alex Rodriguez	NYY	BOS	Junichi Tazawa	15	2 out 1--
9/2/2001	Ryan Klesko	SD	ARZ	Byung-Hyun Kim	13	0 out ---
9/26/1998	Alex Gonzalez	FLA	PHI	Ricky Bottalico	13	1 out ---
6/17/1976	Dave Kingman	NYM	LAD	Charlie Hough	14	1 out ---
9/22/1975	Adrian Garrett	CAL	CWS	Goose Gossage	16	1 out 12-
7/15/1971	Rico Petrocelli	BOS	MIN	Stan Williams	13	2 out 12-
8/19/1969	Tommie Agee	NYM	SF	Juan Marichal	14	1 out ---
7/2/1963	Willie Mays	SF	MLN	Warren Spahn	16	1 out ---
4/30/1950	Del Rice	STL	CHN	Johnny Schmitz	13	1 out ---

The legendary Marichal/Spahn duel from 1963 makes the list. Both Hall of Famers went the distance on the hill, with another Hall of Famer ending it as Willie Mays homered in the 16th. Marichal, the winning pitcher in that game, is the only pitcher to allow two of the 46 homers. No batter appears twice on the list of 46. Yesterday's and the 1998 game are the two longest scoreless games in Marlins history, with the Fish winning one and losing one. Johnny Schmitz, loser of the 1950 game, still earned a bullpen spot on my All-Time J.S. team.

Here is the complete list, in three groups:

(1945-1976)

Yr#	Date	Batter	Tm	Opp	Pitcher	Score	Inn	RoB	Out	Play Description
1	1945-07-27	Vince DiMaggio	PHI	NYG	Bill Voiselle	tied 0-0	b11	1--	2	Home Run; Antonelli Scores
2	1950-04-30	Del Rice	STL	CHC	Johnny Schmitz	tied 0-0	b13	---	1	Home Run
3	1953-09-05	Dick Kokos	SLB	DET	Ralph Branca	tied 0-0	b12	---	0	Home Run
4	1954-07-05 (2)	Harvey Kuenn	DET	CLE	Don Mossi	tied 0-0	b11	---	1	Home Run
5	1954-07-19	Hobie Landrith	CIN	NYG	Al Corwin	tied 0-0	b12	---	1	Home Run
6	1955-05-02	Carl Furillo	BRO	MLN	Gene Conley	tied 0-0	b12	1--	1	Home Run (Fly Ball to LF-CF); Robinson Scores
7	1956-04-29 (1)	Bill Tuttle	DET	CLE	Herb Score	tied 0-0	b10	---	2	Home Run
8	1958-05-09	Ted Kluszewski	PIT	PHI	Robin Roberts	tied 0-0	b12	---	0	Home Run
9	1958-09-05	Bill Virdon	PIT	MLN	Carl Willey	tied 0-0	b10	---	0	Home Run (Deep RF)
10	1962-04-11	Carroll Hardy	BOS	CLE	Ron Taylor	tied 0-0	b12	123	0	Home Run; Yastrzemski Scores; Malzone Scores; Nixon Scores
11	1963-07-02	Willie Mays	SFG	MLN	Warren Spahn	tied 0-0	b16	---	1	Home Run
12	1965-04-12	Bob Bailey	PIT	SFG	Juan Marichal	tied 0-0	b10	---	0	Home Run
13	1967-07-28	Tony Horton	CLE	BAL	Moe Drabowsky	tied 0-0	b12	---	0	Home Run
14	1967-09-14	Don Buford	CHW	CLE	Orlando Pena	tied 0-0	b10	123	2	Home Run; Agee Scores; Josephson Scores; Horlen Scores
15	1969-08-19	Tommie Agee	NYM	SFG	Juan Marichal	tied 0-0	b14	---	1	Home Run
16	1971-04-11	Jerry Grote	NYM	CIN	Wayne Granger	tied 0-0	b11	---	0	Home Run
17	1971-06-08	Joe Pepitone	CHC	PIT	Mudcat Grant	tied 0-0	b12	---	2	Home Run
18	1971-07-15	Rico Petrocelli	BOS	MIN	Stan Williams	tied 0-0	b13	12-	2	Home Run; Smith Scores; Yastrzemski Scores
19	1972-06-16	Jim Wynn	HOU	PHI	Dick Selma	tied 0-0	b11	---	0	Home Run
20	1974-06-28 (2)	Dusty Baker	ATL	CIN	Don Gullett	tied 0-0	b10	---	1	Home Run
21	1975-05-19	Johnny Grubb	SDP	STL	John Curtis	tied 0-0	b10	---	1	Home Run
22	1975-09-22	Adrian Garrett	CAL	CHW	Rich Gossage	tied 0-0	b16	12-	1	Home Run; Stanton Scores; Chalk Scores
23	1976-06-17	Dave Kingman	NYM	LAD	Charlie Hough	tied 0-0	b14	---	1	Home Run

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Generated 7/22/2013.

(1977-1999)

Yr#	Date	Batter	Tm	Opp	Pitcher	Score	Inn	RoB	Out	Pitch	Play Description
24	1978-04-13	Joe Rudi	CAL	MIN	Tom Johnson	tied 0-0	b11	---	1		Home Run
25	1980-07-04	George Hendrick	STL	PHI	Kevin Saucier	tied 0-0	b10	---	1		Home Run
26	1980-07-18	Dave Stapleton	BOS	MIN	Roger Erickson	tied 0-0	b10	---	1		Home Run
27	1981-06-03	Graig Nettles	NYY	BAL	Tippy Martinez	tied 0-0	b11	-2-	2		Home Run; Winfield Scores
28	1985-06-06	Buck Martinez	TOR	DET	Aurelio Lopez	tied 0-0	b12	1--	1		Home Run; Bell Scores
29	1986-07-22	Glenn Davis	HOU	MON	Floyd Youmans	tied 0-0	b10	---	0		Home Run
30	1990-09-06	Bip Roberts	SDP	HOU	Juan Agosto	tied 0-0	b10	12-	2	4 (1-2)	Home Run (LF-CF); Templeton Scores; Santiago Scores
31	1991-09-07	Tim Teufel	SDP	STL	Cris Carpenter	tied 0-0	b10	---	0	6 (3-2)	Home Run (Line Drive to Deep LF); Teufel Scores
32	1996-04-06	Terry Pendleton	FLA	SFG	Mark Dewey	tied 0-0	b10	---	0	5 (2-2)	Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF Line)
33	1997-07-12	Mark Smith	PIT	HOU	John Hudek	tied 0-0	b10	12-	2	2 (0-1)	Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF); Kendall Scores; Ward Scores
34	1998-09-26 (2)	Alex Gonzalez	FLA	PHI	Ricky Bottalico	tied 0-0	b13	---	1	4 (1-2)	Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF)

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Generated 7/22/2013.

(2000-)

Yr#	Date	Batter	Tm	Opp	Pitcher	Score	Inn	RoB	Out	Pitch	Play Description
35	2001-09-02	Ryan Klesko	SDP	ARI	Byung-Hyun Kim	tied 0-0	b13	---	0	1 (0-0)	Home Run (Fly Ball)
36	2002-09-27	Paul Lo Duca	LAD	SDP	Jeremy Fikac	tied 0-0	b10	---	0	1 (0-0)	Home Run (Fly Ball)
37	2006-06-14	Adam Dunn	CIN	MIL	Danny Kolb	tied 0-0	b11	12-	1	5 (2-2)	Home Run (Fly Ball to CF-RF); Griffey Scores; Aurilia Scores
38	2006-08-13	Russell Martin	LAD	SFG	Vinnie Chulk	tied 0-0	b10	---	0	2 (1-0)	Home Run (Fly Ball)
39	2006-09-06	Paul McAnulty	SDP	COL	Nate Field	tied 0-0	b11	-2-	1	2 (1-0)	Home Run (Fly Ball); Walker Scores
40	2007-05-09	Aubrey Huff	BAL	TBD	Brian Stokes	tied 0-0	b10	---	1	3 (1-1)	Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF-CF)
41	2008-06-13	Chad Tracy	ARI	KCR	Yasuhiko  Yabuta	tied 0-0	b10	---	1	4 (0-2)	Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep RF Line)
42	2009-08-07	Alex Rodriguez	NYY	BOS	Junichi Tazawa	tied 0-0	b15	1--	2	4 (2-1)	Home Run (Line Drive to Deep LF-CF); Jeter Scores
43	2010-06-01	Matt Kemp	LAD	ARI	J.C. Gutierrez	tied 0-0	b10	---	1	5 (2-2)	Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF)
44	2010-09-13	Reid Brignac	TBR	NYY	Sergio Mitre	tied 0-0	b11	---	0	6 (3-2)	Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep RF)
45	2011-09-05	Brett Lawrie	TOR	BOS	Dan Wheeler	tied 0-0	b11	---	2	3 (1-1)	Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF-CF)
46	2013-07-21	Caleb Gindl	MIL	MIA	Ryan Webb	tied 0-0	b13	---	0	2 (1-0)	Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF Line)

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Generated 7/22/2013

(New addition)

Yr#	Date ▾	Batter	Tm	Opp	Pitcher	Score	Inn	RoB	Out	Pitch	Play Description
47	2013-07-28	Yasiel Puig	LAD	CIN	Curtis Partch	tied 0-0	b11	---	2	2 (0-1)	Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF)

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Generated 7/29/2013.

One game on this list jumps out at me as particularly special. On July 12, 1997, Pirates righty Francisco Cordova pitched nine hitless innings against the Astros. However, the Pittsburgh offense couldn't scOne game on this list jumps out at me as particularly special. On July 12, 1997, Pirates righty Francisco Cordova pitched nine hitless innings against the Astros. However, the Pittsburgh offense couldn't scratch together a run against Chris Holt and Billy Wagner, the game went into extra innings. Cordova threw 121 pitches and was replaced by Ricardo Rincon. He walked a batter, but put up another zero in the tenth to keep the no-hitter alive. With two on and two outs in the bottom of the tenth, Mark Smith pinch-hit for Rincon and blasted a three-run walk-off no-hitter-clinching home run.


There have been two postseason games that were scoreless until a game-ending home run, but both blows were struck in the bottom of the ninth. Tommy Henrich won the first game of the 1949 World Series with a solo shot off Don Newcombe, and Game Five of the 2004 NLCS ended on Jeff Kent's homer off Jason Isringhausen.

There have been two postseason extra-inning homers that broke a 0-0 deadlock, but both were hit by the visiting team and thus would not make this list. The first was Tito Landrum s tenth-inning solo homer off Britt Burns that won Game Four of the 1983 ALCS (and the pennant) for the Orioles. The other was a pennant-winner at Baltimore's expense as Tony Fernandez took Armando Benitez deep in the 11th inning of Game Six of the 1997 ALCS to clinch the A.L. for the Indians.