Top 10 Toughest Single Game Accomplishments in Sports

Top 10 Toughest Single Game Accomplishments in Sports
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There are many mind-blowing accomplishments in sports: whether it’s running the four-minute mile, managing the unassisted triple play in baseball, hitting a hole in one in golf or scoring a goal as a goalie in hockey, these are all some of the greatest individual athletic accomplishments. WatchMojo counts down the 10 most impressive sports feats achieved by individual athletes, to give you something to aim for.

00:49 #10: A Hole in One - Golf
01:40 #9: Scoring a Goal as a Goalie - Football / Hockey
02:40 #8: Four-Minute Mile - Running
04:01 #7: Hat Trick - Football
04:58 #6: Rushing for 250 Yards in a Game - American Football
05:58 #5: Unassisted Triple Play - Baseball
07:07 #4: The Quadruple Double - Basketball
08:27 #3, #2 & #1 ???

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[mscrub]

05:50 No running back has committed double murder with more style and class than the graceful OJ Simpson.

[praeothmint]

What about Mario Lemieux, the only hockey player in history to score 5 goals in different ways in 1 single hockey game: on December 31, 1988, he scored an even-strength goal, a power-play goal, a short-handed goal, a penalty shot goal and an empty net goal.

[andreilavruk]

no way is scoring a hat trick harder than scoring as a goalie

[ZarkoN]

Lewandowski scored 5 goals in 9 minutes
What about that

[Yeah_Whocares]

"God help you if you witness a No-hitter. That is 9 miserable innings of watching two guys play catch." - Daniel Tosh

[dark_knight]

I can think of a few that were missed from hockey (and with respect to the goalie-goal, I'd say these two are both more difficult):
-10 point game in hockey (done just once - Darryl Sittler in 1976)
-Mario Lemieux Hat-trick (score all five different ways in one game - even strength, powerplay, shorthanded, penalty shot, and empty net).

[CountSamwell]

20 Strikeout game in baseball. It's happened 3 times in 150 years. Much more rare than anything on the list.

[sidmarnica]

Happy Gilmore was the first person to do a hole in one on a par 4

[PsychoMantis]

Happy Gilmore scored a hole in one on a par 4

[jediknightfalcon]

scoring 4 goals in your first NHL game.

Edit 2 year update: leafs still suck Bruins I hate you you ruined me

[TGtheFisch]

Tennis:

Golden set: Set which is won without dropping a single point.

Only one man in the history of top-tier professional tour tennis has ever achieved this: Bill Scanlon against Marcos Hocevar in the first round of the WCT Gold Coast Classic at Delray Beach on February 22, 1983. Scanlon won the match 6–2, 6–0. The achievement is recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.

[ekeats]

Darryl Sittler (NHL) 10 points in a single game

[firatabuleyla]

Quadruple-double in basketball.

Hat-trick is common. 4 or 5 goals for one player in single match is rare and thougher.

[matts]

good run down but 100 points should have been number 1 since no one will ever do that again.

[njackson]

Anyone else think the MLB should just give Galarraga his perfect game?

[stevebuscemi]

Understandable to see a lot of hockey players upset in the comments, I too am very upset

[OneTeeGlory]

K the 100 points should be ahead of the perfect game. I don't see 6 basketball players getting 100 point games in 7 years any time soon.

[Ranger]

Sorry +WatchMojo.com...the toughest single game accomplishment to do in sports is what Mario Lemieux did on December 31, 1988. Mario became the only player in NHL history to score a goal in the only 5 possible game situations. He scored a power play goal, a short-handed goal, a regular goal, a penalty shot goal and an empty-netter. Marking the only time in NHL history before and after to be done...

[Godmode]

5 goals in 5 different ways? Only Mario Lemieux has ever done that and there is next to no chance that someone will repeat it. Not even the Great One could do it.

[chacomeback]

5 goals in a hockey game.

To this day Mario Lemieux is the only player to accomplish this in five different situations (even strength, power play, penalty kill, penalty shot and empty net)