Manny Ramirez loses a home run after rounding the bases, a breakdown
What Happened
In a 2004 game at Yankee Stadium, two players fully rounded the bases thinking they hit a home run, but the umpires determined that the hits were actually foul balls. In the first inning, Manny Ramirez thought he hit a home run, but the umpires overturned the call after determining the ball went foul. Later in the game, Miguel Cairo also fully rounded the bases after hitting a deep fly ball, but Manny Ramirez showed him the ball, indicating it was caught.
Why This Matters
Manny Ramirez thought he just crushed one out at Yankee Stadium, so he went full celebration mode rounding the bases, only for the umps to kill his vibe and say it was actually foul. It's peak Manny chaos in the pre-replay review era where you could just argue about what everyone literally just watched.
This breakdown ranks #1179 all-time on Jomboy with 81K views, proving that watching guys fully celebrate home runs that never happened never gets old.
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Click timestamps to jump to that momentIn 2004 at Yankee Stadium, two players
fully rounded the bases thinking they
hit a home run only to find out they in
fact did not hit a home run. The same
game and it started in the first inning
when Manny Ramirez is up. El Duk is
pitching. The Glory Years, my childhood
basically on display. This one's brought
to you by SeatGeek. And Manny is going
to take that up and in pitch and send
it.
And he says, "Okay, home run." And I
think they called it a home run. El Duk
said, "FOUL. FOUL. FOUL. WHEN FOUL. WHAT
ARE YOU talking about?" Joe Tori is
going to run out there. You know, all
arms and shoulders. Manny's rounding the
bases. He's celebrating. The umps are
running around. He's got himself a home
run. Now, the umps all get together at
third base. No replay in these days. And
the guy's like, "Ah, home plate dump is
like, I had it foul, guys." I have the
best view of that. That ball went foul.
And you know what? They got the call
correct. So Manny rounded the bases for
nothing. That ball was left of the foul
pole. Not a home run, but he saw it and
he was like, "Yep, gone." Uh, okay,
cool. It actually looked like he didn't
think it was a home run and then he saw
the umpire call it a home run, but they
overturned it. He went on to walk in the
at bat. El Duk, he's like, "I'm not
going inside anymore. Screw that." And
then we're going to jump to the fifth
inning where Miguel Cairo is up against
Bronson Aoyo. He's going to lay down a
beautiful bunt. Oh my god. Buns for a
base hit. Oh, UCLA lets it go. Foul.
Picks it up. Says nice try, punk. Do it
again. Not going to get me. And then
we've got another strike. And we get a
foul ball. So he's down 02. So let's
bring out THE POWER SWING. BOOM. BOOM.
HE'S GOING TO send one deep and deep and
deeper to left field. Is that going to
stay fair? It does, but it's caught. And
Manny shows the ball right away. And he
says, "But you can do the fake round of
the bases. I had to do it. You can do
it." I don't know what Miguel Cairo is
doing. He didn't see Manny holding the
ball up in the air. I guess he fully
rounds the bases, celebrates. Second
player to do so in the game, then turns
around. Oh, how about Soraniano there
dapping him up even though Seraniano
knows like he saw it but he dabs him up
and Kyra's like, "Wait, what? A home
run, right?" Jeter's like, "Dude, I
don't know what to tell you." But
Manny's like, "Gotcha." That's a famous
gift, right? Boom. If you ever seen
that, this is where it comes from. And
Ky, it's a homer, right? Out.
What? Manny can't play defense.
Out. He's like, "Ah, I got that one."
Feeling good about it. And it is a
really nice play by Manny. Tracks it,
jumps, robs a home run. I mean, he's at
like the top of his jump. I wonder if he
had his foot planted in the wall to kind
of stay up there for a little bit. I
don't know what Cairo was doing cuz he's
looking to the outfield
when this happens. How does he get
himself like
hanging?
She's holding on with his right hand.
Oh, he is. Oh, there you go. So he's
grabbing the top of the cannon sign and
block with his right hand and that's how
he gets himself to kind of hang there
because he jumped before the ball got
there, but he was able to hang and reach
out and rob it. Really nice play by
Manny. How about that? Miguel Cairo saw
it and decided, yes, that's a homer. So
that's got to be a rare feat. Find me
another game where two players fully
rounded the bases thinking they hit a
home run only to find out afterwards
they did not hit a home run. And if you
want to look further into this game,
don't. The ending sucks. But if you want
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