Game Ending Steals of Home by Baseball Almanac

Game Ending Steals of Home

Does anyone not love watching a steal of home plate? Does anyone think it isn't one of the single most exciting possible baserunning feats? Now imagine that same steal of home, but it also scores the game winning run! Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive list of game ending steals of home plate.

"Connie Mack wouldn't let me run," Moses remembered. "I stole a few bases my first year, but Connie Mack said, 'Wally, I don't want you to run. You got Cramer, Foxx, and Johnson behind you. They might hit one and you can walk around.' But when I went to Chicago with Dykes, he told me to run. 'We have to steal runs,' and I had speed. Joe Kuhel was my roommate and he’d steal on guys I'd get thrown out on. I asked him, 'What do you know that I don't know?' He started pointing out things pitchers did." - Baseball Historian Doug Skipper (SABR Biography, 'Wally Moses', Source)

Game Ending Steals of Home Game Ending Steals of Home In Chronological Order
#	Name^(Quantity)	Lg	Team (Score)	Date / Box	Opponent (Score)
01.	Harry Arndt⁽¹⁾	NL	St. Louis Cardinals (3)	09-12-1905	Pittsburgh Pirates (2)
02.	Frank Chance⁽¹⁾	NL	Chicago Cubs (1)	04-28-1906	Cincinnati Reds (0)
03.	Eddie Grant⁽¹⁾	NL	Philadelphia Phillies (7)	07-15-1909	St. Louis Cardinals (6)
04.	Bobby Byrne⁽¹⁾	NL	Pittsburgh Pirates (4)	08-25-1910	Brooklyn Superbas (3)
05.	Wilbur Good⁽¹⁾	NL	Chicago Cubs (5)	04-15-1913	Pittsburgh Pirates (4)
06.	Heinie Zimmerman⁽¹⁾	NL	Chicago Cubs (14)	06-24-1915	St. Louis Cardinals (13)
07.	Mike Gonzalez⁽¹⁾	NL	St. Louis Cardinals (5)	06-11-1917	Philadelphia Phillies (4)
08.	Merlin Kopp⁽¹⁾	AL	Philadelphia Athletics (5)	05-20-1918	Detroit Tigers (4)
09.	Jim Thorpe⁽¹⁾	NL	New York Giants (4)	06-05-1918	New York Giants (4)
10.	Pat McNulty⁽¹⁾	AL	Cleveland Indians (3)	06-14-1924	Boston Red Sox (2)
11.	Clifton Heathcote⁽¹⁾	NL	Chicago Cubs (3)	06-17-1924	Philadelphia Phillies (2)
12.	Ossie Bluege⁽¹⁾	AL	Washington Senators (8)	06-04-1929	St. Louis Browns (7)
13.	Ski Melillo⁽¹⁾	AL	St. Louis Browns (3)	05-31-1930	Chicago White Sox (2)
14.	Danny Taylor⁽¹⁾	NL	Chicago Cubs (3)	08-24-1930	New York Giants (2)
15.	Tony Lazzeri⁽¹⁾	AL	New York Yankees 2	09-13-1931	Detroit Tigers (1)
16.	Al Lopez⁽¹⁾	NL	Brooklyn Dodgers (4)	07-22-1933	Chicago Cubs (3)
17.	Zeke Bonura⁽¹⁾	AL	Chicago White Sox (9)	08-26-1935	New York Yankees (8)
18.	Bill Werber⁽¹⁾	AL	Philadelphia Athletics (7)	04-29-1938	Washington Senators (6)
19.	Gene Moore⁽¹⁾	NL	Brooklyn Dodgers (3)	06-01-1939	Chicago Cubs (2)
20.	Wally Moses⁽¹⁾	AL	Philadelphia Athletics (4)	08-20-1940	Philadelphia Athletics (4)
21.	Jeff Heath⁽¹⁾	AL	Cleveland Indians (9)	07-04-1941	St. Louis Browns (8)
22.	Huck Geary⁽¹⁾	NL	Pittsburgh Pirates (5)	06-01-1943	Boston Braves (4)
23.	Wally Moses⁽²⁾	AL	Chicago White Sox (3)	07-07-1943	Boston Red Sox (2)
24.	Dee Fondy⁽¹⁾	NL	Chicago Cubs (7)	09-06-1953	Cincinnati Redlegs (6)
25.	Earl Torgeson⁽¹⁾	AL	Detroit Tigers (6)	07-17-1955	New York Yankees (5)
26.	Jim Gilliam⁽¹⁾	NL	Brooklyn Dodgers (6)	06-14-1957	St. Louis Cardinals (5)
27.	Vic Power⁽¹⁾	AL	Cleveland Indians (10)	08-14-1958	Detroit Tigers (9)
28.	Ed Charles⁽¹⁾	AL	Kansas City Athletics (4)	08-08-1962	Minnesota Twins (3)
29.	Willie Davis⁽¹⁾	NL	Los Angeles Dodgers (4)	09-19-1964	Philadelphia Phillies (3)
30.	Tommie Agee⁽¹⁾	NL	New York Mets (2)	07-24-1970	Los Angeles Dodgers (1)
31.	Rod Carew⁽¹⁾	AL	Minnesota Twins (5)	09-01-1972	Cleveland Indians (4)
32.	George Brett⁽¹⁾	AL	Kansas City Royals (4)	08-17-1976	Cleveland Indians (3)
33.	Eddie Murray⁽¹⁾	AL	Baltimore Orioles (2)	08-15-1979	Chicago White Sox (1)
34.	Glenn Brummer⁽¹⁾	NL	St. Louis Cardinals (5)	08-22-1982	San Francisco Giants (4)
35.	Marquis Grissom⁽¹⁾	AL	Cleveland Indians (2)	10-11-1997	Baltimore Orioles (1)
#	Name^(Quantity)	Lg	Team (Score)	Date / Box	Opponent (Score)
Game Ending Steals of Home \| Bold = Hall of Fame Player

When Marquis Grissom stole home to end the game he did so during Game 3 of the American League Championship Series - the first and only in postseason history.

Did you know we chose a Wally Moses quote for the page lead-in for one simple reason, he is the only player in history to have two game ending steals of home?

Thirty five game ending steals of home in history, eighteen in the National League, seventeen in the American League, six by Hall of Fame players.

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