In the 10th, he walked the leadoff hitter but induced a double play. He worked around a leadoff single in the 11th and again in the 12th. Finally, in the bottom of the 12th, the Senators pushed across the winning run. Muddy Ruel doubled after his foul popup was dropped and Earl McNeely doubled him home. Johnson had his win. Sometimes the big moment defines the game more than the game itself.
Three days of rain helped build tension for this classic from Fenway. Finally, Carlton Fisk famously waved the ball fair in the 12th.
The Cardinals were one strike from elimination in the ninth when David Freese tripled just over the head of Nelson Cruz to score two runs to tie the game. Josh Hamilton blasted a two-run homer in the 10th, but the Cardinals tied it up again. Finally, Freese homered to win it. Anybody who thinks a low-scoring baseball game is boring has never watched this one. Beyond the Jack Morris masterpiece, it was the clinching game of a drama-filled World Series that saw five one-run games three in extra innings , with four won in walk-off fashion.
David slays Goliath in the greatest game ever played. Minter Atlanta Braves Batting. Houston Astros Batting. Atlanta Braves Pitching. Houston Astros Pitching. Report an error. More Postseason Pages. Full Site Menu Return to Top. Louis Cardinals. Over the last century, the World Series has been woven into the fabric of America's culture evolving far beyond a mere baseball tournament.
It has become the game of all games and has continued to provide us with an endless highlight reel of magical moments evoking childhood memories of agony and ecstasy. How would one define the World Series? It's Willie Mays catching what can't be caught and Don Larsen being perfect where perfection is simply not possible. It's Babe Ruth telling the fans and media where he is going to deposit the next pitch and a heavily outscored team of Pirates beating the unbeatable Yankees off a ninth inning Bill Mazeroski blast.
It's the Curse of the Bambino, when loyal Red Sox fans live their entire lives without witnessing a championship and when Yankees fans witness four in five years Although the World Series as we know it didn't begin until , Major League Baseball had several versions of a post-season championship series before that.
Over the next six years, different variations took place between the National League and American Association pennant-winners, ranging in length from six to fifteen games. The American Association folded unexpectedly after the season forcing a suspension of the series. The following year, the National League absorbed four of the American Association's former franchises and expanded to twelve teams in an effort to promote the growth of baseball and maintain the public's interest.
They played a split season in which the first-half winner played the second-half winner for the league championship. Many fans did not support the new system and the split season was promptly dropped in In , Pittsburgh's owner William C. Temple offered a championship trophy to the winner of a best-of-seven-game series between the National League's first and second-place teams.
Temple's novel idea would last for the next three years and helped to build the foundation for baseball's post-season popularity.
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