This is probably the greatest walk-off celebration of all time. The dugout pointing and shirt-untucking has been seen before but the explosion with aftershock was creative. So unique, we haven’t seen something like it before or since.

Greatest offensive performance of all time? Delgado had already hit three home runs, including his 300th career homer, when he stepped up to the plate he had the chance to join the coveted four homer club.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo44oXlKyPg

Delgado hit his fourth of the day, but as if someone had asked him, “What more can you do?” he hits the furthest of them all into the upper deck of center field. If there was any situation where a player was justified to do anything he wanted for a celebration, this was it. Of course, Delgado kept it cool and did a sweet bat flip.

After a 34 homer, .304 hitting season in 2009, Kendrys Morales seemed destined for superstardom. Then this walk-off home run came and he injured himself. The injury turned out to be way worse than everyone expected; he missed the rest of 2010 after playing only 51 games and missed all of 2011. Since returning, he’s been productive but nowhere near .300 with 30 homers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHU789PuCWg

Jumping onto home plate went from this to this really quick.

So did Kendrys learn from his mistakes? You bet he did.

The one and only, grand slam single.

The Mets were down 3-1 already in the 1999 NLCS, but with the game tied 2-2 in the 15th in Game 5, Ventura had the opportunity to let the Mets live on. Only one run was needed to win, so once the ball landed over the fence, the guy from third scored and it was victory. This is more of a “would be home run” celebration because the two other runners and Ventura never scored. Even though the ball went over the fence, this isn’t scored as a home run, but as a single.

Bret Boone may have been the king of bat flipping specifically, but no player has had a more celebrated celebration routine than Sammy Sosa. Sosa’s routine was much simpler than most others on the list. All he did was one hop, two hop, then trot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyaDWqI8rlI

Out of his 609 career homers, I wonder how many hops he did.

It’s pretty fitting that the all-time home run king is high on the list. He’s like Mariano Rivera, the all-time saves leader. Rivera would get the save and just calmly shake hands with Jorge Posada. It all looked like no big deal to him. And that’s because it wasn’t. It wasn’t an outright swagger, but just a confidence so strong it was undeniable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnyUVY3et6o

Bonds was the same. Within one second, he cocked his bat, swung explosively, and by the end was watching the ball go out. Pujols knew the ball was gone by the end of the swing. Griffey knew the ball was gone by contact. Bonds knew it was gone while he was swinging. You have to hit a lot of home runs to know that you hit one before even contact.

It is hoped that Bret Boone is honored to know that he has been declared

The Master of All Bat Flippers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLSZX4eYeKw

His bat flips became the trademark of his career. He never threw the bat down the field but more of a subtle flick a split-second after hitting it. It was style and it was cool—and no player has had such a perfect bat flip done so many times that it becomes the trademark. It even got its own commercial!

This guy had to make the list, simply because he’s possibly the coolest player of all time. Junior was cool for all of the catches, the shoes, the smile, and the backwards cap. Nothing was cooler to me, however, than the long, majestic swing, the towering blast to right field, and Griffey’s reaction to every homer. He always knew he got it and he would watch it go, never overdoing it, for a few steps before trotting around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aBMCBswm1I

The Machine makes the list more as a compilation of all his great home run celebrations. Pujols always seems to have a great one: dropping the barrel, an explosive swing, then a couple of short steps knowing he got it before he starts his trot.

This one always sticks out to me with the bat flip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7d65Ovsrig

I love it when players celebrate home runs. People complain about baseball players not being cool enough. To me, there’s nothing cooler than a player hitting a ball and stand at home plate for a split second, knowing that the ball is gone. The bat flip, the dugout dances, I love it all.

What I like:

• Bat flips

• Standing at home plate (briefly, not overdoing it) and watching the ball take its flight

• Dugout dances, high-fiving your teammates

I’m not too keen on taking an incredibly long time for a home run trot. I do love it though when it comes after as a punishment, like a, “Oh so you’re going to intentionally walk him to face me?”

To make an all-time celebration, it obviously needs to be a cool one but it can be helped by the situation it’s in, like if it’s a playoff game or a walk-off.