Kansas City Royals at Minnesota Twins

There are memorable wins, and then there are moments. The kind of swing that a player tells his grandkids about. The kind of game where you tell people you were there. Kody Clemens had one of those on Thursday. In a game that looked all but hopeless for more than eight innings, Clemens hit the 34th known “ultimate grand slam” in Major League history -- defined as a walk-off grand slam by a team trailing by three runs -- to give the Twins as improbable a win as you will ever see, 4-3 over the Royals at Target Field. But it was not just an ultimate slam. It was a two-out ultimate slam, on an 0-2 pitch, in a game where the Twins had been no-hit for six innings. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Clemens’ slam marked the first time in Major League Baseball history, including the postseason, that a team broke up a no-hitter in the seventh inning or later, then went on to hit a walk-off grand slam. They’ve been playing this game for well over 100 years. There aren’t many things that happen for the first time anymore, but Clemens accomplished one. “That's stuff that you dream about, stuff like that, when you're a little kid,” Clemens said. “That's what you envision doing.” Held to a single hit over the first 8 2/3 innings, Minnesota nonetheless assembled a seemingly impossible comeback against the Royals in the ninth, getting up off the mat to stun Kansas City in the rubber game. Clemens finished it off with the first “ultimate grand slam” ever by a Twins player. The swing was good for a .923 win probability added (WPA), literally the highest possible amount for a single swing of the bat or pitch. “One swing of the bat and it’s flipped,” said Twins starter Bailey Ober, who allowed three runs in six innings. “Yeah, that’s insane. Me and \[reliever Taylor Rogers\