Greatest Single-Game Performance of All Time (any Sport) (1 Viewer)

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

I turned the TV on a few minutes ago and watched Robert Lewandowski score a goal for Bayern Munich to tie the game at 1-1.

Eight minutes later he'd scored four more -- five total in nine minutes time.

I'm trying to think of something as spectacular and can't come up with anything. It's like Samje Perine broke the NCAA rushing record in a single quarter or Lemieux scored five in a single period. Wilt's 100 maybe?

What you got?

 

[larch]

Harvey Haddix 12 perfect innings.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

Harvey Haddix 12 perfect innings.

Nice -- had somehow never heard of this.

 

[Cold Dead Hands]

Al Bundy threw four touchdowns in a single game.

 

[Mr. Ected]

Golf

 

[Bucky86]

Golf

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[Don Quixote]

Gale Sayers' 6 TD game, maybe?

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

Would be better if you could see it in real time, but here's Deadspin's post on it -- broken into three pieces.

Came on as a halftime sub.

 

[TheAristocrat]

Dave Spehar's pure first period hat trick versus Bloomington Jefferson (22-1-2) in the 1995 Minnesota State Hockey Tournament AA championship game.

 

[JMon348]

Got to be up there. Any better in soccer?

 

[GregR]

I turned the TV on a few minutes ago and watched Robert Lewandowski score a goal for Bayern Munich to tie the game at 1-1.

Eight minutes later he'd scored four more -- five total in nine minutes time.

I'm trying to think of something as spectacular and can't come up with anything. It's like Samje Perine broke the NCAA rushing record in a single quarter or Lemieux scored five in a single period. Wilt's 100 maybe?

What you got?

In 1952 Sam Mosienko scored 3 goals for the Blackhawks in 21 seconds.

 

[fantasycurse42]

Al Bundy threw four touchdowns in a single game.

Ummm dude, he ran for 4 TDs.

 

[QuizGuy66]

Gale Sayers' 6 TD game, maybe?

I witnessed Howard Griffith rush for 8 TDs

-QG

 

[QuizGuy66]

Lemieux once scored 5 different ways in the same game.

-QG

 

[timschochet]

Lots of good choices here.

But I gotta go with Wilt. 100 points against NBA players. Sure they weren't very good NBA players by today's standards, but even so. 100 ####### points.

 

[JMon348]

Lots of good choices here.

But I gotta go with Wilt. 100 points against NBA players. Sure they weren't very good NBA players by today's standards, but even so. 100 ####### points.

Kobe's 81>

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Dave Spehar's pure first period hat trick versus Bloomington Jefferson (22-1-2) in the 1995 Minnesota State Hockey Tournament AA championship game.

The Jefferson Jaguars were a juggernaut. Spehar came down from Duluth and ended that dynasty pretty much by himself.

 

[Keith R]

Came in to post the Wilt 100. Will stick with that.

Runner-up - Mike Tyson beating the "real" World Heavyweight Champion to unify the title... in 91 seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T02RhdpGWgw

 

[matuski]

Every game I played in 1987-88.

Signed Barry.

 

[Apple Jack]

Lots of good choices here.

But I gotta go with Wilt. 100 points against NBA players. Sure they weren't very good NBA players by today's standards, but even so. 100 ####### points.

And he was like six feet taller than all of them and could place the ball in the basket on his heels.

 

[joffer]

Reno Hightower against Porterville

 

[sports_fan]

Secretariat at Belmont. Won by 30 lengths

 

[Smack Tripper]

Kerry wood, 20 K's one hit (a questionable one at that) shutout over an Astros lineup with two likely future hall of famers

 

[kevzilla]

5/25/1935

Jesse Owens ties the world record in the 100, and sets new world records in the 220, the 220 low hurdles, and the long jump. In 45 minutes.

That's the best day an athlete ever had.

 

[mr fancypants]

6/23/1971

Rick Wise pitched a no hitter against the Cincinnati Reds only allowing a walk to Davey Concepcion

in the 6th inning. Wise also clouted 2 homeruns and had 3 rbi's in a 4-0 victory.

 

[Hang 10]

Don't know if it's the greatest of all time but Vince Young was pretty awesome in the rose bowl.

 

[jwb]

Reggie Jackson's three home runs in the world series, in 3 consecutive at bats, all on the first pitch, is up there too.

First one I thought of. Three swings, three homers, in the world series clinching game.

eta - third home run, a monster shot.

 

[bro1ncos]

Wouldn't put it at the very top but Emmitt's playoff game with a separated shoulder (vs Giants I believe) was an amazing performance.

 

[Koya]

Shocked that Gale Sayers 6 TD game, rushing, receiving, returning kicks in the mud - has not been mentioned.

The guy was a football god that day

 

[NREC34]

Shocked that Gale Sayers 6 TD game, rushing, receiving, returning kicks in the mud - has not been mentioned.

The guy was a football god that day

7th post

 

[elbowrm]

Charles Jefferson vs. Lincoln High

 

[ShamrockPride]

Don't know if it's the greatest of all time but Vince Young was pretty awesome in the rose bowl.

Gotta go with this. Guy won by himself. Wasn't even like he had help from his defense. Guy had to score just about every possession he had, and he did.

 

[MikeIke]

5/25/1935

Jesse Owens ties the world record in the 100, and sets new world records in the 220, the 220 low hurdles, and the long jump. In 45 minutes.

That's the best day an athlete ever had.

My first two thoughts were Wilt's 100 and Tyson over Spinks, but this is pretty hard to argue with.

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

Wouldn't put it at the very top but Emmitt's playoff game with a separated shoulder (vs Giants I believe) was an amazing performance.

I don't think that was a playoff game,but I could be wrong

 

[johnnycakes]

Foreman knocks out Frazier in 2.

 

[Uncle Leo]

"Yet there was Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls superstar, gamely playing on through serious flu-like symptoms in Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals on June 11, 1997 -- and by night's end, rendering most of the 19,911 people in Utah's Delta Center sick to their stomachs too."

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Don't know if it's the greatest of all time but Vince Young was pretty awesome in the rose bowl.

Gotta go with this. Guy won by himself. Wasn't even like he had help from his defense. Guy had to score just about every possession he had, and he did.

I had almost forgotten about that game

I forget the year but Lebron pretty much beat the Pistons by himself in a playoff game

 

[Chemical X]

Man, this is a great topic. off The top of my head i think koufax '65 game 7.

also, caleidoscopio 2013 Brooklyn handicap. bernard king '84 game 5 v pistons or his back to back 50 point games. cigar in The dubai derby.

dwight gooden circa 1984. Walt Frazier game 7 vs lakers in The willis reed game.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Never saw that calidiscopio race before...thanks for that one

 

[ffldrew]

Bill Walton 21 of 22 against Memphis State

 

[Sand]

To throw out a bit different one, but worth a mention is what Jason Lezak did in the 2008 4x100 relay in Beijing. In an Olympic final he put up (by a long way) the fastest relay split ever recorded up to take the snooty French by .08 seconds.

Who's talking now?

 

[Koya]

Shocked that Gale Sayers 6 TD game, rushing, receiving, returning kicks in the mud - has not been mentioned.

The guy was a football god that day

7th post

My bad.

 

[The General]

Christian Laettner vs Kentucky: Didn't miss a shot from field or the line in the game and then hit the shot.

Kirby Puckett Game 6 World Series vs Braves.

Marcus Allen vs Redskins in Superbowl.

Jordan dunking on Ewing game in playoffs.

 

[Michael Brown]

Certainly nowhere close to these moments, but just to throw another one out there since I was there. Back in the 2012 Yankees/Orioles ALDS, Raul Ibanez hit a pinch hit game-tying home run in the bottom of the 9th and then the walkoff home run in the 12th.

I know this is about a single game, but his was made more crazy by the fact that he also hit a tying HR in the 9th inning of a game earlier that week, then went on to hit another tying HR in Game 1 of the next playoff series against the Tigers.

 

[dparker713]

Greatest team performance I've seen was Barca vs Real Madrid in 2010. They made the second best team in the world look like they didn't even belong on the same field.

 

[Raider Nation]

Darryl Sittler's 10-point game deserves a mention. Six goals and four assists is nuts, and it wasn't even an All-Star game.

 

[chauncey]

Golf

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's death was noted on Twitter as an epic loss to golf, with hundreds recalling the Stalinist state media's reports of Kim's 11 holes-in-one in a single round in 1994.

Reports hailed Kim's 38-under par 34 over 18 holes at the 7,700-yard (7,041m) Pyongyang Golf Course in his first try at golf, a feat watched purportedly by 17 security guards protecting the man hailed as 'Dear Leader'.

 

[fantasycurse42]

Gotta be Christine Michael week 10 against NYG last year. Guy ran wild, stat line of something like 4 carries for 71 yards.

 

[dschuler]

Vince Young vs USC in the National Title game. He put up 200 yards rushing and almost 300 yards passing. It's probably my favorite college football game of all time, obviously I have some bias.

 

[jon_mx]

Anyone who ever bowled a 300 game. You can't out do perfection.