The highlighted entry is maybe the biggest home run of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewer season:
1982
Ned Yost's 3-run home run in the top of the 9th gives Milwaukee a 6–3 win over Boston. Milwaukee is four games in front of Baltimore with just four to play.
That home run was also Yost's only home run of the season. It was a lineshot into the screen above the Green Monster. That home run was the subject of this story in at jsonline.com on August 12, 2002.
But timing, as they say, is everything.
Yost, a reserve catcher, hit a three-run shot off Boston's Mark Clear in the ninth inning at Fenway Park on Sept. 29, lifting Milwaukee to a 6-3 victory.
"That home run is probably the biggest homer in Brewers history," said Tom Flaherty, the longtime baseball writer for The Milwaukee Journal, now retired and living in Red Lodge, Mont.
Is Red Lodge, Montana where baseball writers go to retire? Is that where Mark Clear is today?
Yost hadn't played in 18 days before the historic shot, and didn't expect to play in the final days of the season. He didn't even bring any bats on the trip east. But he found himself strapping on his shin guards after starting catcher Ted Simmons left in the eighth inning for a pinch runner.
In the top of the ninth, Yost borrowed a bat from Charlie Moore, and the rest is history.
I hope that he teaches the current Brewers to always bring a bat...or to always borrow Charlie Moore's.
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