This Day in History: 1992

Setting: Game 7 of the National League Championship Series.

Down 2-1 in the bottom of the 9th and with no one left on the bench, Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox called for Fulton County Stadium parking lot attendant Francisco Cabrera to pinch hit with the bases loaded and the world's slowest living mammal (1st baseman Sid Bream) representing the winning run on 2nd. With the count two balls and one strike, Cabrera wrapped a base hit to left field scoring The Man Who Used to Have Sex with Halle Berry (aka David Justice). Lumbering behind him like a drunken sloth that just finished eating a pound of barbiturates was Bream. As left fielder Barry Bonds fielded the ball, Bream slogged his way around 3rd, in what seemed to be a catastrophically bad base running decision. Yet, somehow the Frankenstein-like Bream beat the throw by Bonds, sending the Braves to their 2nd straight World Series and the Pirates to 16 years of bumbling futility.

To this day, conspiracy theories abound concerning the play. The most popular being the so-called "Zach Morris Theory" which states that Bream, long rumored to possess the ability to freeze time, did just that as he rounded 3rd base, then re-animated the game as he approached home plate.