The Comprehensive Home Run Alternate Name List
Below, you will find what I hope will wind up as the be all, end all of
lists for alternative names for home runs. I'm going to get the list
started, but reader interaction is crucial. If you've heard someone, anyone, call a home run by another name, leave a comment and we'll add it to the list.
This is yet another great time-wasting exercise spawned from the comments. This is, by far, my favorite part of writing this blog.
Here we go, in stream-of-consciousness order...
Check the list and leave any we may have missed in the comments below.
This is yet another great time-wasting exercise spawned from the comments. This is, by far, my favorite part of writing this blog.
Here we go, in stream-of-consciousness order...
- Bomb
- Tater
- Long ball
- Round-tripper
- Salami (grand slam, still counts)
- Dinger
- Souvenir
- Gopher ball
- Shot
- Blast
- Poke
- Dong
- Homer
- Upper-decker
- Moon shot
- Four-bagger
- Going yard
- Goner (as in, it's a goner)
- Chinese home run (hit so high that when it barely gets out, it scrapes the back of the fence)
- Job (As in one-run job, two-run job, etc.)
- Jack (As in two-run jack,)
- Cranked one out
- Clout
- Touch 'em all
- Jack-shot
- No-Doubter
- Big fly
- Laser
- Wallop
- A-bomb
- High-riser
- Tape-measure shot
- Quadruple
- Put it on the board (ChiSox announcer)
- See ya (Yankees announcer)
- Missile
- Ding dong
- About face
- Walk off
- Go homer (walk off)
- Hasta la vista, baby (ESPN announcer in Taiwan)
- Cuadangular (en Espanol)
- Jonron (ditto)
- Bambinaz (Mexico)
- Volva cuerca (Venezuela)
Check the list and leave any we may have missed in the comments below.
