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====Barry Bonds' 71st MLB home run in 2001==== On October 5, 2001, Miller made the call of [[Barry Bonds]]' record-breaking 71st home run: {{cquote|''There’s a high drive deep into right-center field, to the big part of the ballpark … NUMBER 71! And what a shot, over the 421-foot marker! The deepest part of any ballpark in the National League and Barry Bonds is now the home run king! Number 71 and it was impressive!''}} On May 27, 2003, during a game between the Giants and Arizona Diamondbacks, Miller called a play involving two defensive errors by the Diamondbacks and at least three separate baserunning mistakes by Giants outfielder [[Rubén Rivera]]. When Rivera was finally thrown out at home plate trying to score what would have been the winning run, Miller declared,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/05/27/video-of-the-day-happy-10th-anniversary-ruben-rivera-baserunning-blunder/ |title=Video of the Day: Happy 10th Anniversary Ruben Rivera baserunning blunder |first=Craig |last=Calcaterra |date=May 27, 2013 |work=NBC Sports}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://inthesun.typepad.com/blog/2007/06/for-old-times-sake.html |title=Audio clip of Jon Miller's call of Ruben Rivera's infamous baserunning gaffe}}</ref> {{cquote|''That was the worst base running in the history of the game!''}} The phrase was repeated numerous times on sports radio and highlight shows such as ''[[SportsCenter]]'', and quickly became one of the most famous calls of Miller's long career. He did a similar call on the radio during Game 3 of the [[2004 World Series]], when [[Jeff Suppan]] made a baserunning mistake.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}}
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