Homer at the Bat” is the seventeenth episode of Season 3. It originally aired on February 20, 1992. It was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by Jim Reardon. Mr. Burns bets $1,000,000 that his company team can beat a competing plant’s team. In order to do so, he replaced the regular company team with new security guard Roger Clemens, new janitor Wade Boggs, lunchroom cashier Ken Griffey Jr., and other new employees like Steve Sax, Don Mattingly, Ozzie Smith, Darryl Strawberry, Jose Canseco, and Mike Scoscia.