On
todays' Brainy
History:
July 17, 1914 Giants outfielder Red Murray
is knocked unconscious by lightning after catching a flyball,
ending 21 inning game, Giants win 3-1
This wasn't Murray's only run in with lightning. Five years
earlier, here's what happened:
August 16, 1909: New York and Pittsburgh
play to a 2-2 tie, stopped after eight innings because of a
drenching downpour. ... Outfielder Red Murray prevents a loss for
Matty [
Christy
Mathewson] with one of the greatest catches ever seen at
Forbes Field. With two outs and two on [in the bottom of the
eighth],
Dots Miller belts a long line drive off Matty into the growing
darkness. With everyone straining to follow the ball, a bolt of
lightening [sic] flashes and Murray is seen making a bare-handed
grab on the dead run to end the inning.
Bill Klem then calls the game.
Source: the excellent
Baseball
library article on
Bill Murray.