POLL: A's Memorable Moments — Hatteberg's walk-off in 20th straight win vs Henderson's 130 SB in '82

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PROGRAMMING NOTE: NBC Sports California is looking back at the A's 50 Memorable Moments since the franchise relocated to Oakland in 1968. Below are the next two moments you can vote on. Tune into A's Pregame Live today at 6:30 p.m. to watch highlights of the two moments. After the A's and Rangers conclude, tune into A's Postgame Live to see which moment will move on to the next round!

1. Scott Hatteberg's walk-off home run to extend A's winning streak to 20 in 2002 (New winner -- Defeated A's winning 2012 AL West title on final day of the season)

(From Ben Ross)

Every A's fan remembers where they were when Scott Hatteberg hit the biggest home run of his career. With Oakland and Kansas City tied at 11 in the bottom of the ninth, Hatteberg hit a pinch-hit walk-off home run, giving the A's their 20th straight win, a new American League record.

Incredibly, the Athletics had blown an 11-0 lead in the game. The Royals scored five runs in the fourth inning, five more in the eighth, and one in the ninth to tie the game at 11. But Hatteberg came to the rescue, sending the sellout crowd of more than 55,000 into a frenzy.

Hatteberg hit 15 home runs that season, and 106 in his career, but only this one ended up in Hollywood. Hatteberg was portrayed by Chris Pratt in the 2011 film "Moneyball."

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2. Rickey Henderson steals 130 bases in 1982

(From former A's infielder/outfielder and current NBC Sports Bay Area analyst Bip Roberts)

Some guys are different. Rickey was different. Base stealers have no fear on the bases and they bring fear to all defenses. As a middle infielder, when Rickey got on base, it would shorten up my range, I'd have to get closer to second base and therefore, ground balls that wouldn't normally get through would get through for hits. So what Rickey really did was, as a guy who really wanted to emulate what Rickey did,  was he showed us an image of what lead-off hitters and base-stealers could do and how we could take over games and he became one of our favorites and we all tried to emulate that.

When you start thinking about stealing over 100 bases... you start thinking about health because you know that you're going to be taking a pounding. And Rickey didn't slide feet-first, he went head-first which means that he was always suspectable to injury whether it be fingers, wrist, or jamming a shoulder or maybe getting tagged at the top of the head and hurting his neck. So there was always a risk.

But to steal over 130 bases in one season, and in 1982 was really my first year in Pro Ball and I thought if that's the goal, that's the bar, I don't know how anyone's going to reach that bar because no one had stole that many bases before and not only stole that many bases, but really changed the game like Rickey did because now the pitchers paid more attention to us base-stealers. Pitchers started releasing the ball in 1.5 seconds and all of a sudden Rickey totally changed the game and it was a record that we never thought would be broken.

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