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All-Time World Series rankings: No. 36-71
CORPUS CHRISTI - No. 71: 1939
New York Yankees 4, Cincinnati Reds 0
Results: Game 1 – Yankees 2-1; Game 2 – Yankees 4-0; Game 3 – Yankees 7-3; Game 4 – Yankees 7-4 (10 inn.)
MVP: None selected until 1955
Lasting impression: Charlie Keller plowing into Reds catcher Ernie Lombardi in the tenth inning of the finale. With the game tied and Frankie Crosetti on third and Keller on first, Joe DiMaggio lined a single to right. Right-fielder Ival Goodman misplayed the ball and let it roll past him. Keller rounded third and went home as the throw came in to Lombardi. Keller rammed Lombardi and the ball went free a few feet from home as the catcher went down, stunned. The book Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life claimed Lombardi was kicked in a very sensitive area. But as the catcher tried to recover, DiMaggio raced home. Lombardi scrambled for the ball and lunged for the plate, but DiMaggio slid around the tag.
The Series: Four in a row for the Yankees — a sweep and the fourth World Series title in a row, the first team ever do that. New York won the opener on a one-out walk-off single by Bill Dickey and then took the next two games with relative ease. Cincinnati scored three times in the seventh in Game 4, and added an insurance run in the eighth, only to give up two runs in the ninth, allowing the Yankees to tie the game. The Keller play pretty much ended the Series.
No. 70: 2005
Chicago White Sox 4, Houston Astros 0
Results: Game 1 – White Sox 5-3; Game 2 – White Sox 7-6; Game 3 – White Sox 7-5 (14 inn.): Game 4 – White Sox 1-0
MVP: White Sox RF Jermaine Dye (.438, 1 HR, 3 RBIs, 3 runs)
Lasting impression: The marathon that was Game 3 and effectively was the Astros' last gasp, with the team regretting missed opportunities. The White Sox erased a 4-0 Houston lead with a five-run fifth. But Jason Lane's two-out double tied the game in the eighth inning. The Astros had runners on first and third with one out in the bottom of the ninth, but had two strikeouts sandwiched around an intentional walk. Houston could not score in the 10th with runners on first and second and two outs, while Chicago had the same situation in the next frame and could not capitalize. Again, the Astros pushed a runner to second in the 11th with one out, but did not score. Geoff Blum's two-out home run in the 14th signaled the end. Two singles and two walks later, the White Sox had an insurance run. Houston again had runners on first and second with two outs in the last half of the inning but, as was the case since the ninth, failed to get one across home.
The Series: Game 2 also was a pivotal point, with the Astros tying the contest in the top of the ninth with Jose Vizcaino's two-run single with two outs. But Chicago's Scott Podsednik drilled a one-out pitch from closer Brad Lidge over the right-center wall for a walk-off shot. Dye's single with two outs in the eighth scored the only run in the final contest.
No. 69: 1903
Boston Americans 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 3
Results: Game 1 – Pirates 7-3; Game 2 – Americans 3-0; Game 3 – Pirates 4-2; Game 4 – Pirates 5-4; Game 5 – Americans 11-2; Game 6 – Americans 6-3; Game 7 – Americans 7-3; Game 8 – Americans 3-0
MVP: None selected until 1955
Lasting impression: The first pitch, from Boston's Cy Young to Pittsburgh's Ginger Beaumont on Oct. 1. The Pirates took their third National League title in a row in 1903 and issued a challenge to take on the champion of the fairly new, upstart American League — known as the Americans, soon to be called the Red Sox. The atmosphere for "the famous postseason series for the championship of the world", as the Pittsburg Press coined it at the time, included singing Boston supporters travelling to the Pirates' Exposition Park with horns, megaphones, badges and a brass band.
The Series: This was the young upstart league beating the established one. The Americans, who overcame a 3-1 series deficit, had a pitching hero, but it was not the renowned Hall of Famer Young, who gave up four runs in the first inning of Game 1 after getting Beaumont out. It was Bill Dinneen, who went 3-1 and pitched shutouts in Game 2 and the finale — the rare Game 8. The Pirates had the first home run with Jimmy Sebring's inside-the-park job in Game 1 and leaned heavily on pitcher Deacon Phillippe, who threw five games with ace Sam Leever and offensive star Honus Wagner playing hurt. The Pittsburg Press — Pittsburgh, the city, did not have the 'h' on the end of its name for two decades, lasting until 1911 — reported Dinnenn, player-manager Jimmy Collins and shortstop Freddy Parent were carried off the field by Boston rooters after Dinneen's four-hitter ended the series at Boston's Huntington Avenue Base Ball Grounds. It was the one thing handled properly — the 33 combined errors were atrocious, even for an eight-game series.
No. 68: 1970
Baltimore Orioles 4, Cincinnati Reds 1
Results: Game 1 – Orioles 4-3; Game 2 – Orioles 6-5; Game 3 – Orioles 9-3; Game 4 – Reds 6-5; Game 5 – Orioles 9-3
MVP: Orioles 3B Brooks Robinson (.429, 2 HR, 6 RBI, 5 runs)
Lasting impression: Robinson didn't win that MVP award just for his bat. He put on a show at third. Among the most memorable plays: A grounder by Lee May in Game 1 that was fair, veering past third base into foul territory, with Robinson backhanding it behind the third-base coaches' box, almost into the outfield. He threw a one-hopper off the wrong foot to get May at first. Robinson corralled Tony Perez's high-hopper about 10 feet away from third with runners on first and second in the first inning of Game 3, raced to third and fired to first to complete the double play. He made a diving grab toward the shortstop side on a Johnny Bench liner in the same game. Reds manager Sparky Anderson told reporters that he was beginning to see Robinson in his sleep. He added that Robinson was the difference in the two one-run games to open the Series, saying after Game 2, "We could win four straight and take the Series, but Brooks has to win the Most Valuable Player award."
The Series: Defense turned the Series as did the Reds' inability to hold a lead. Cincinnati led 3-0 in the opener, 4-0 in Game 2 and 3-0 in the finale, but lost all those contests. In Game 1, a pivotal play happened in the sixth after the Orioles tied the contest at 3. The Reds had runners at the corners with one out when Ty Cline hit a high chopper that stayed in front of the plate. Baltimore catcher Elrod Hendricks raced out to field it, while home-plate umpire Ken Burkhart jumped up on the baseline to rule fair or foul. Hendricks grabbed the ball with his bare hand and, with his glove, turned and tagged Bernie Carbo coming home from third with Burkhart lodged between the two players. Burkhart ruled Carbo out. The culmination of the play happened with Burkhart's back turned away from the action. Anderson protested to no avail, and the Orioles won it in the seventh on a Robinson home run. A five-run Baltimore fifth helped dig a 2-0 hole for the Reds, and the Orioles quickly overcame the 3-0 Cincinnati lead in the finale with seven runs in the first three innings.
No. 67: 2009
New York Yankees 4, Philadelphia Phillies 2
Results: Game 1 – Phillies 6-1; Game 2 – Yankees 3-1; Game 3 – Yankees 8-5; Game 4 – Yankees 7-4; Game 5 – Phillies 8-6; Game 6 – Yankees 7-3
MVP: Yankees DH-PH Hideki Matsui (.615, 3 HR, 8 RBIs, 3 runs)
Lasting impression: Alex Rodriguez smacking the camera. The Yankees slugger was not slapping around paparazzi but in the fourth inning of Game 3, Rodriguez laced a shot down the right-field line that was ruled a double, with umpires believing the ball hit the top of the wall. But New York manager Joe Girardi went on the field to argue that it was a home run. The umpires, with newly installed replay technology, reviewed the play, the first time that happened in a postseason game. The shot, with a runner on base, actually cleared the wall but bounced off a camera and back onto the field. With the Yankees down 3-0 at the time, it was a big reversal, pulling New York to within a run. The Yankees took the lead for good and won by three runs.
The Series: New York staged early rallies in the second and third games, but Game 4 turned out to be a crucial point. The Yankees had a 4-2 lead, but the Phillies tied it with runs in the seventh and eighth. But with two outs in the top of the ninth, Rodriguez lashed a run-scoring double and then came in as part of Jorge Posada's two-run single. Philadelphia did not threaten in the bottom of the inning, but did strike early in the following game and held off a late New York comeback, giving up a run on a double play in the ninth to maintain a two-run lead but gain two needed outs. The Yankees jumped ahead early in Game 6 and cruised to another World Series title.
No. 66: 1949
New York Yankees 4, Brooklyn Dodgers 1
Results: Game 1 – Yankees 1-0; Game 2 – Dodgers 1-0; Game 3 – Yankees 4-3; Game 4 – Yankees 6-4; Game 5 – Yankees 10-6
MVP: None selected until 1955
Lasting impression: Tommy Henrich driving a home run off Dodgers pitcher Don Newcombe with a 2-0 count to lead off the bottom of the ninth in Game 1. Henrich's hit into the right-field bleachers ended a pitchers' duel, in which New York's Allie Reynolds allowed only two hits and Newcombe four heading in to the last of the ninth.
The Series: Henrich's hit set the tone for the early games, with Gil Hodges' second-inning RBI single in Game 2 being the only run scored in Brooklyn's only victory. Game 3 had more drama as, tied at 1 entering the ninth, the Yankees' Johnny Mize delivered a two-run single and Jerry Coleman added an RBI single. That allowed New York to withstand the Dodgers in the bottom of the inning, when Luis Olmo and Roy Campanella delivered solo home runs. The final games were anticlimactic, with the Yankees grabbing the early lead by a nice margin and withstanding Brooklyn charges.
No. 65: 1974
Oakland Athletics 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Results: Game 1 – A's 3-2; Game 2 – Dodgers 3-2; Game 3 – A's 3-2; Game 4 – A's 5-2; Game 5 – A's 3-2
MVP: A's reliever Rollie Fingers (1-0, 2 Sv., 1.93 ERA)
Lasting impression: Other than four of the five games ending in 3-2 scores? Bad base-running. In Game 2, Oakland scored twice in the ninth to close the gap, but was down by a run with one out and pinch-runner Herb Washington at first. A's owner Charlie Finley signed Washington as a "designated runner", a pinch-running specialist with great speed but little baseball awareness. He was immediately picked off by Mike Marshall, who recorded another out to even the Series. In the final game, the Dodgers were down by a run when Bill Buckner led off the eighth with a single that centerfielder Bill North misplayed and allowed to skip past him. Buckner was heading toward second, saw the outfielders chasing the ball and ignored third-base coach Tommy Lasorda and headed for third. He later said it would "take two perfect throws" to get him. That happened. Reggie Jackson tracked the ball from right field and hit second baseman Dick Green with a perfect throw. Green turned and made an on-target relay to third, and Buckner was tagged on the head by Sal Bando for an out, ending Los Angeles' final threat in the Series. Before that inning, Buckner, playing the outfield, had been targeted by A's fans, who hurled debris at him, including an apple that hit him in the head.
The Series: Buckner's adventure was preceded by a seventh-inning home run by Oakland's Joe Rudi, who snapped the 2-all tie. The previous contest, the A's scored four times in the sixth to take a 5-2 lead. And, in Game 3, the Dodgers had the tying run aboard in the ninth, but a strikeout and a double play ended the comeback hopes.
No. 64: 1981
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, New York Yankees 2
Results: Game 1 – Yankees 5-3; Game 2 – Yankees 3-0; Game 3 – Dodgers 5-4; Game 4 – Dodgers 8-7; Game 5 – Dodgers 2-1; Game 6 – Dodgers 9-2
MVP: Dodgers 3B Ron Cey (.350, 1 HR, 6 RBIs, 3 runs), OF Pedro Guerrero (.333, 2 HR, 7 RBIs, 2 runs); C Steve Yeager (.286, 2 HR, 4 RBIs, 2 runs)
Lasting impression: The impression Goose Gossage's 94-mile-per-hour fastball made on the left side of Cey's head. The right-handed-batting Cey was up in the eighth inning of Game 5 and was caught on the left side of his batting helmet with a fastball from one of the era's fastest pitchers. Cey collapsed and rolled around a bit, eventually being carted off in an ambulance and diagnosed with a concussion. The ball rolled all the way to the Yankees dugout.
The Series: This is a strange Series, even accepting the fact that there are tri-MVPs and the memorable moment is someone getting hit by a pitch. Yankees reliever George Frazier lost three games, with the exception being Game 5, which starter Ron Guidry lost. New York also was without Reggie Jackson (strained calf) for the first three games and third baseman Graig Nettles (thumb) for games 3 through 5. In Game 3, the Dodgers averted a 3-0 deficit Series when, trailing 4-3 in the fifth inning, Guerrero hit an RBI double and a double play brought in the go-ahead run. In the following contest, Los Angeles came back from 4-0 and 6-3 deficits, with a Jay Johnstone two-run pinch-hit home run in the sixth inning and a Davey Lopes RBI infield single being the key plays. In the fifth game, the Dodgers rallied from 1-0 down with back-to-back home runs from Guerrero and Yeager in the seventh inning. Los Angeles trailed 1-0 in the finale, but scored eight runs in the middle innings to defeat its old rivals.
No. 63: 1918
Boston Red Sox 4, Chicago Cubs 2
Results: Game 1 – Red Sox 1-0; Game 2 – Cubs 3-1; Game 3 – Red Sox 2-1; Game 4 – Red Sox 3-2; Game 5 – Cubs 3-0; Game 6 – Red Sox 2-1
MVP: None selected until 1955
Lasting impression: Charlie Pick out at the plate. Chicago's Pick was at second base with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning and the Red Sox leading 2-1 in the pivotal third game. Carl Mays' pitch was a passed ball that got by catcher Wally Schang, and Pick headed to third. Schang's throw got away third baseman Jackie Thomas, and Pick was sent home as Thomas hustled toward the Cubs' bench to retrieve the ball. Thomas fired a strike to Schang, who tagged Pick, trying to hook slide with his left foot to avoid the tag. Pick was ruled out. Game over.
The Series: There was a little labor strife. Call it a brief strike or a holdout, but players threatened not to play before Game 5, wanting a larger share of the gate. They were denied and, after a two-hour delay, took the field. Despite the low-scoring nature of the games, the most excitement came from Pick's play and the finish to Game 4. An error off a bunt in the eighth gave Boston a one-run lead, and the Red Sox held on in the next inning as Chicago put runners on first and second with no outs. Boston forced the lead runner on a bunt and then turned a double play on the next hitter to end the contest. The Cubs never made a serious threat after the fifth inning of the final game.
No. 62: 1917
Chicago White Sox 4, New York Giants 2
Results: Game 1 – White Sox 2-1; Game 2 – White Sox 7-2; Game 3 – Giants 2-0; Game 4 – Giants 5-0; Game 5 – White Sox 8-5; Game 6 – White Sox 4-2
MVP: None selected until 1955
Lasting impression: Giants third baseman Heine Zimmerman losing his footrace home to catch Chicago's Eddie Collins, who was running from third base with no one out in the fourth inning of the final game. With runners on the corners, Happy Felsch hit one back to pitcher Rube Benton, who wheeled and threw to Zimmerman after Collins broke off from third. Catcher Bill Rariden went halfway up the baseline to trap Collins in a rundown, but Zimmerman never threw the ball, and Collins raced home with the game's first run, barely winning the race. Zimmerman was excoriated in the press for his play, being called a "dope". But while Zimmerman should have thrown to Rariden, Benton never covered home. Interestingly, a few years later, Zimmerman was banned for life from the major leagues conspiring to fix games, though not in this Series.
The Series: New York rallied from a 2-0 deficit to tie the Series. The White Sox — many of whom, including Felsch, would be dubbed the "Black Sox" in just a couple of years for conspiring to throw the 1919 World Series — made a key rally in Game 5, scoring three runs in the eighth to tie and three in the ninth to win. This Series might be best known for that, or that it was the last White Sox world championship for 88 years, had Zimmerman not tried to run down Collins by himself.
No. 61: 1948
Cleveland Indians 4, Boston Braves 2
Results: Game 1 – Braves 1-0; Game 2 – Indians 4-1; Game 3 – Indians 2-0; Game 4 – Indians 2-1; Game 5 – Braves 11-5; Game 6 – Indians 4-3
MVP: None selected until 1955
Lasting impression: Bob Feller's near-pickoff of Boston's Phil Masi on second base with one out in the bottom of the eighth in the opening game. It looked like Feller got Masi, but Masi was ruled safe by umpire Bill Stewart. Feller got another out, but a Tommy Holmes single scored Masi. Close plays or controversial calls were taken to new heights, however, when the Associated Press published four photographs of Masi diving back to second, with it appearing Masi was stuffed by Indians shortstop Lou Boudreau short of the bag. The four photos, taken in less than two seconds' action, caused a national sensation in the sports world, with the New York Times publishing all four together.
The Series: That 1-0 victory almost was it for high points for Boston, save for the win in Game 5, in which Cleveland surrendered six runs in the seventh to break a tie. Over the next two close contests, the Braves weren't able to get the tying run on after the fifth inning. They twice boarded the tying run in the late innings of Game 4, but could not do anything with it. Boston scored twice in the eighth inning of the finale, and had runners on second and third with two outs, but could not score. The Braves had a runner in the final inning of the finale, but a popped-up bunt was turned for a double play, quashing the rally.
No. 60: 1959
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Chicago White Sox 2
Results: Game 1 – White Sox 11-0; Game 2 – Dodgers 4-3; Game 3 – Dodgers 3-1; Game 4 – Dodgers 5-4; Game 5 – White Sox 1-0; Game 6 – Dodgers 9-3
MVP: Dodgers P Larry Sherry (2-0, 2 Sv., 0-71 ERA)
Lasting impression: The acting job in Game 2 by Dodgers left-fielder Wally Moon, who caused slow-footed White Sox runner Sherm Lollar to hesitate, which caused Lollar to be thrown out at the plate. Chicago entered the bottom of the eighth trailing 4-2 with runners on first and second and none out when Al Smith laced a double to left. Earl Torgeson scored from second, but Moon, who didn't have a shot at catching the ball, acted like he settled under it and caught it, causing Lollar to admittedly hesitate rounding second. Moon went to the wall, played the carom and wheeled and hit cut-off man Maury Wills with a perfect throw. Lollar was sent home and nailed at the plate to end the threat. Thirty-two years later, a similar play would have a huge impact on the Atlanta Braves-Minnesota Twins World Series.
The Series: The tightest games were in the middle of the Series, the first played on the West Coast. The teams combined to score all the Game 3 runs in the seventh and eighth innings. The White Sox trailed 4-0 in the seventh inning of Game 4, eventually tied it on Lollar's three-run home run, but Gil Hodges led off the bottom of the eighth with a solo home run to give the victory to Los Angeles. The White Sox forced a sixth game when Lollar's double play resulted in a run early in Game 5. But the Dodgers, who swept a best-of-three playoff with the Milwaukee Braves to advance to the Series, closed it in a rout, holding an 8-0 lead in the fourth inning.
No. 59: 1933
New York Giants 4, Washington Senators 1
Results: Game 1 – Giants 4-2; Game 2 – Giants 6-1; Game 3 – Senators 4-0; Game 4 – Giants 2-1 (11 inn.); Game 5 – Giants 4-3 (10 inn.)
MVP: None selected until 1955
Lasting impression: Mel Ott's two-out home run in the top of the 10th inning of the fifth game, which grazed the glove of Senators centerfielder Fred Schulte. It marked the second day in a row in which the Giants won an extra-inning contest, taking the previous' day's affair on Blondy Ryan's one-out RBI single.
The Series: New York pitcher Carl Hubbell played a big role in his team's World Series victory, throwing a complete-game victory in the opener and following with an 11th-inning complete game in the fourth contest. The Giants took the opener with four runs in the first three innings and followed with a six-run sixth inning in Game 2. Washington easily took the third game, setting up the final two extra-inning contests.
No. 58: 1969
New York Mets 4, Baltimore Orioles 1
Results: Game 1 – Orioles 4-1; Game 2 – Mets 2-1; Game 3 – Mets 5-0; Game 4 – Mets 2-1 (10 inn.); Game 5 – Mets 5-3
MVP: Mets 1B Donn Clendenon (.357, 3 HR, 4 RBIs, 4 runs)
Lasting impression: The pair of catches made by Mets center fielder Tommie Agee in Game 3. The first came in the fourth inning with the Orioles putting runners on the corners with two outs. Elrod Hendricks hit a fly to left-center, and Agee, positioned in right-center, had to make a dash after the ball, with a lunging catch as the ball snow-coned on top of his glove. Baltimore loaded the bases with two outs in the top of the seventh, and Paul Blair drove a shot to deep right-center. Agee, shading toward left-center, had to again race to the ball, making a diving catch at his knees. Agee, who also had a solo home run in the game, saved at least five runs in a 5-0 New York victory.
The Series: Throughout the hype, it's forgotten that New York was a 100-win team. Of course, the Orioles won 109 that season, and the Mets had been a doormat in their seven seasons of existence. New York evened the Series in Game 2 when light-hitting Al Weis singled with two outs in the top of the ninth to bring in Ed Charles. Baltimore tied Game 4 in the top of the ninth, but the Mets won in the 10th when J.C. Martin, bunting with runners at first and second and none out, laid down a sacrifice that pitcher Pete Richert fired into Martin, allowing the winning run to score. New York then rallied from a 3-0 deficit in the fifth game when Clendenon hit a two-run home run in the sixth inning and Weis followed with a solo shot the next inning. Tied at 3 in the bottom of the eighth, Ron Swoboda doubled in Cleon Jones and later came in on an error.
No. 57: 1988
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Oakland Athletics 1
Results: Game 1 – Dodgers 5-4; Game 2 – Dodgers 6-0; Game 3 – A's 2-1; Game 4 – Dodgers 4-3; Game 5 – Dodgers 5-2
MVP: Dodgers P Orel Hershiser (2-0, 1.00 ERA, 2 CG, 1 SHO)
Lasting impression: A hobbling Kirk Gibson, hardly able to run because of a bad left hamstring and a sore right knee, being called on to pinch hit against feared A's closer Dennis Eckersley with his team down by one and two outs in the bottom of the ninth of Game 1 with a runner aboard. Gibson took a full-count pitch and pulled it into the right-field stands on Oct. 15, the first home run Eckersley surrendered since Aug. 24. Gibson then took a semi-limping home-run trot as his teammates poured out of the dugout along with manager Tommy Lasorda. The drama was drawn out as Mike Davis walked with two outs and stole second on a 2-2 pitch, trying to get into position to score if Gibson singled. But Gibson's dramatic shot ended the need for that.
The Series: Interestingly, and way overshadowed, is that Gibson's home run was not the only walk-off shot in the Series. Mark McGwire homered for the A's in the bottom of the ninth
in Game 3 to break a 1-all tie. The Dodgers grabbed early leads in the final two contests to sew up, as huge underdogs, the Series.
No. 56: 1941
New York Yankees 4, Brooklyn Dodgers 1
Results: Game 1 – Yankees 3-2; Game 2 – Dodgers 3-2; Game 3 – Yankees 2-1; Game 4 – Yankees 7-4; Game 5 – Yankees 3-1
MVP: None selected until 1955
Lasting impression: The third strike dropped by Dodgers catcher Mickey Owen with two outs in the top of the ninth in Game 4. Yankees hitter Tommy Henrich, facing a full count, swung at a low inside pitch, but the ball skipped off Owen's mitt and into the Brooklyn dugout as Henrich took first base. The Dodgers led 4-3 at the time, but three hits and two walks later, New York had the lead.
The Series: That play, if Hugh Casey's pitch is closer to the strike zone or Owen is able to get a corral it, turned a potentially tied Series into a 3-1 Yankees lead. The first three games were tense affairs, with all three runs in the third game coming home in the eighth inning. New York took a 2-0 lead early in the fifth game, and Henrich's fifth-inning home run gave his team a 3-1 edge. After that, 6-foot-2, 220-pound Yankees pitcher Ernie (Tiny) Bonham never allowed the tying run on base.
No. 55: 1945
Detroit Tigers 4, Chicago Cubs 3
Results: Game 1 – Cubs 9-0; Game 2 – Tigers 4-1; Game 3 – Cubs 3-0; Game 4 – Tigers 4-1; Game 5 – Tigers 8-4; Game 6 – Cubs 8-7 (12 inn.); Game 7 – Tigers 9-3
MVP: None selected until 1955
Lasting impression: Treat goats with respect. Billy Sianis, owner of Chicago's Billy Goat Tavern, brought his pet goat to the World Series. When Cubs officials asked him to leave because the goat was bothering fans, Sianis cursed the team. Whether it was they would lose the Series, never win another title or never play in another World Series, the curse is open for interpretation. But Chicago was up 2-1 in the Series at the time. The Cubs lost that advantage and never have played in another World Series.
The Series: World War II was over, but many star players still were in the service. So this was the third Series with a couple of stars, some older players and a lot of B-class players. The Series lacked excitement over the opening five games with the winner scoring most or all of its runs in a big inning and holding on. But Game 6 had some interest, with the Tigers scoring four times in the eighth to force extra innings, a contest won on a 12th-inning double by 35-year-old leadoff hitter Stan Hack. But Detroit removed all drama in the final game, striking for five runs in the top of the first.
No. 54: 1965
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Minnesota Twins 3
Results: Game 1 – Twins 8-2; Game 2 – Twins 5-1; Game 3 – Dodgers 4-0; Game 4 – Dodgers 7-2; Game 5 – Dodgers 7-0; Game 6 – Twins 5-1; Game 7 – Dodgers 2-0
MVP: Dodgers P Sandy Koufax (2-1, 0.38 ERA, 2 SHO, 24 IP, 29 K, 5 BB, 13 H)
Lasting impression: Koufax getting the Game 7 call over Don Drysdale on two days' rest. The Dodgers had a loaded staff but Koufax, coming off a Game 5 shutout was chosen by manager Walter Alston, who tried to place the decision in strategic terms — going with the lefty. Koufax followed his four-hitter in Game 5 with a three-hitter to close out the Series and defeat Twins pitcher Jim Kaat again.
The Series: Los Angeles scored in the fourth inning of the finale, with Lou Johnson delivering a solo shot and Wes Parker — who later made an appearance on the Brady Bunch — coming through with an RBI single. After that, only in the fifth did Minnesota put the tying run on base, as Koufax set down 14 of the final 15 batters he faced. Most of the other games were decided relatively early, as the team that scored first in each game never was tied or lost the lead. However, the Twins needed a wild pitch and a two-run single by Kaat in the seventh and eighth innings to pull away in Game 2 and the Dodgers used a three-run sixth — scoring on a Ron Fairly two-run single and an error — to pad a 3-2 lead.
No. 53: 1909
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Detroit Tigers 3
Results: Game 1 – Pirates 4-1; Game 2 – Tigers 7-2; Game 3 – Pirates 8-6; Game 4 – Tigers 5-0; Game 5 – Pirates 8-4; Game 6 – Tigers 5-4; Game 7 – Pirates 8-0
MVP: None selected until 1955
Lasting impression: Taking the field for Game 7. This was the first World Series that went to a winner-take-all final game, with the teams alternating wins throughout the championship.
The Series: A lot of attention focused on the battle of stars with Detroit's Ty Cobb facing Pittsburgh's Honus Wagner. Cobb struggled to a .231 average, while Wagner redeemed himself for a poor 1903 Series — and helped other 1903 holdovers in player-manager Fred Clarke, outfielder Tommy Leach and pitchers Sam Leever and Deacon Phillippe earn a Series title — by hitting .333, stealing six bases, with four runs and six RBIs. But the surprise star was Pirates pitcher Babe Adams, regarded as the fifth pitcher on his team's staff. Adams went 3-0 with a 1.33 ERA, including a six-hitter in the opener and a six-hit shutout in Game 7 on two days' rest. Outside of those players, a sloppy series with 29 errors and 54 walks combined, with 10 walks by Tigers pitchers in Game 7. The winning team rallied early in opening two contests, and the high mark for drama was Game 6, in which the Pirates cut into a 5-3 deficit by scoring in the ninth but, with none out and runners on the corners, had a runner cut down at the plate and a double play to force Game 7.
No. 52: 1978
New York Yankees 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Results: Game 1 – Dodgers 11-5; Game 2 – Dodgers 4-3; Game 3 – Yankees 5-1; Game 4 – Yankees 4-3 (10 inn.); Game 5 – Yankees 12-2; Game 6 – Yankees 7-2
MVP: Yankees SS Bucky Dent (.417, 7 RBIs, 3 runs)
Lasting impression: Dodgers rookie pitcher Bob Welch striking out Reggie Jackson to finish the second game. Jackson earned his Mr. October hype the previous Series, hitting three home runs off Los Angeles pitching. The 21-year-old Welch came in for reliever Terry Forster with one out and runners on first and second and his team up a run. He faced the heart of the Yankees order, getting Thurman Munson to fly out. Then Jackson, in a clutch situation, went down swinging on a full count. National attention immediately was turned toward Welch for giving the Dodgers a 2-0 Series lead.
The Series: Things turned against Los Angeles in Game 4 when Tommy John gave up a one-out RBI double to Munson to tie the contest in the eighth inning. Welch had two outs and one on in the 10th when he surrendered a single to Jackson and the game-winning basehit to Lou Pinella. The Yankees pounded the Dodgers the next two games with Jackson getting back at Welch by slamming a two-run home run off the pitcher in the seventh inning of Game 6 for the final scoring of the Series.
No. 51: 1936
New York Yankees 4, New York Giants 2
Results: Game 1 – Giants 6-1; Game 2 – Yankees 18-4; Game 3 – Yankees 2-1; Game 4 – Yankees 5-2; Game 5 – Giants 5-4 (10 inn.); Game 6 – Yankees 13-5
MVP: None selected until 1955
Lasting impression: Joe DiMaggio's defense. In his first World Series, The Yankee Clipper put on one of the greatest glove performances in the lopsided Game 2. DiMaggio made three great grabs, but the most memorable was the final out of the game. Hank Leiber hit a shot to dead center. Depending on the source, DiMaggio is described as twisting and turning or running at an angle and looking back while moving full speed. He hauled the ball in at the base of the wall and made a quick pivot. But contrary to later reports, he did not run straight into the clubhouse. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in attendance, and the announcer asked those present to remain standing until the Roosevelt left. The New York World-Telegram stated that DiMaggio remained in center until FDR was gone.
The Series: The Yankees scored in the eighth to pull out Game 3, while the Giants staved off elimination with an extra-inning victory in Game 5. The finale was tight until the Yankees put up seven runs in the top of the ninth to break open from a one-run edge.
No. 50: 1977
New York Yankees 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Results: Game 1 – Yankees 4-3 (12 inn.); Game 2 – Dodgers 6-1; Game 3 – Yankees 5-3; Game 4 – Yankees 4-2 ; Game 5 – Dodgers 10-4 ; Game 6 – Yankees 8-4
MVP: Yankees RF Reggie Jackson (.450, 5 HR, 8 RBIs, 10 runs)
Lasting impression: This is where Jackson became Mr. October. Already having a great Series and possessing a strong postseason résumé with the Oakland A's, Jackson's Game 6 performance was one for the ages, helping New York rally. In the fourth inning, he clubbed a two-run home run to right off Burt Hooton to give the Yankees their first lead of the contest. He tacked on another two-run shot in the next inning off reliever Elias Sosa. He finished the trifecta with a shot to center off Charlie Hough in the eighth, much to the joy of the New York crowd, which was chanting his name when Jackson came to the plate. It marked only the third time a player hit three home runs in one World Series game, putting Jackson in the company of Babe Ruth, who did it twice for the Yankees.
The Series: The Series had its moments even when Jackson wasn't at the plate. The Dodgers forced extra innings in the opener when Lee Lacy delivered an RBI single in the ninth, but Paul Blair followed a Willie Randolph double with a single in the 12th to give New York the victory. The winning team took control early over the next four games until the Yankees had to rally from 2-0 and 3-2 to end the Series in Game 6.
No. 49: 1951
New York Yankees 4, New York Giants 2
Results: Game 1 – Giants 5-1; Game 2 – Yankees 3-1; Game 3 – Giants 6-2; Game 4 – Yankees 6-2; Game 5 – Yankees 13-1; Game 6 – Yankees 4-3
MVP: None selected until 1955
Lasting impression: Mickey Mantle's World Series debut, which also was the start of his infamous injury issues. Mantle, playing right field alongside centerfielder Joe DiMaggio, who was in his last Series with the Yankees, raced after a Willie Mays fly ball in Game 2. While running, Mantle got a cleat stuck in a drain. On the DVD Mickey Mantle: The American Dream Comes to Life, Mantle mentions that, the way he went down, a lot of people thought he had been shot, including DiMaggio. It was a serious knee injury, something that would stay with Mantle for the duration of his playing days.
The Series: Any drama in this Series resides on two issues — first, the Giants, who advanced after beating Brooklyn in a playoff famous for Bobby Thompson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World" home run, grabbed 1-0 and 2-1 Series advantages and, second, the final game. In Game 6, Hank Bauer broke a tie for the Yankees, slamming a bases-loaded triple to left in the sixth. The Giants, trailing 4-1 entering the ninth, loaded the bases on three successive singles. But the team could get only two sacrifice flies before a lineout ended the Series.
No. 48: 2000
New York Yankees 4, New York Mets 1
Results: Game 1 – Yankees 4-3 (12 inn.); Game 2 – Yankees 6-5; Game 3 – Mets 4-2; Game 4 – Yankees 3-2; Game 5 – Yankees 4-2
MVP: Yankees SS Derek Jeter (.409, 2 HR, 2 RBIs, 6 runs)
Lasting impression: Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens throwing a remnant of the barrel of Mike Piazza's shattered bat at Piazza as the Mets player ran up the first-base line after a foul ball. Clemens had plunked Piazza in the head during a regular-season interleague game, forcing Piazza onto the disabled list. Piazza claimed Clemens did it on purpose. After Clemens, who claimed he didn't see Piazza running up the line, threw the bat toward the dugout, Piazza turned and started toward Clemens, who came toward Piazza. The two yelled at each other and both benches emptied though no punches were forthcoming.
The Series: That incident served as a sideshow to a fairly interesting Series. The opener went back and forth, with the Mets taking a 3-2 lead with three runs in the seventh. The Yankees tied it in the ninth on a sacrifice fly, but couldn't capitalize in the 10th with the bases loaded and none out and in the 11th with runners on second and third. Finally, a two-out Jose Vizcaino single scored the winning run in the 12th. The Yankees grabbed 6-0 lead in Game 2 and had to hold off the Mets, who scored five times in the ninth. The Mets broke a 2-all tie in the third game with a pair of runs in the bottom of the eighth, but dug an early hole in Game 4 and couldn't come back. The finale was tied at 2 in the ninth, but a two-out single by Luis Sojo brought in two Yankees runs — one on the hit and another on an error.
No. 47: 2003
Florida Marlins 4, New York Yankees 2
Results: Game 1 – Marlins 3-2; Game 2 – Yankees 6-1; Game 3 – Yankees 6-1; Game 4 – Marlins 4-3 (12 inn.); Game 5 – Marlins 6-4; Game 6 – Marlins 2-0
MVP: Marlins P Josh Beckett (1-1, 1.10 ERA, 1 CG, 1 SHO)
Lasting impression: Florida's Alex Gonzalez leaping on home plate after his home run ended Game 4 in the 12th inning. Gonzalez, the No. 8 hitter in the lineup and 1-for-13 in the Series at that point, led off the bottom of the 12th by lining a full-count offering from Jeff Weaver that just barely eked over the left-field wall. That capped a contest in which the Marlins blew a 3-0 lead, with the Yankees scoring twice in the top of the ninth. But Gonzalez's home run prevented New York from grabbing a 3-1 Series lead.
The Series: Florida trailed only briefly in the rest of the Series after Gonzalez's home run, going down to the Yankees 1-0 at the start of Game 5, but scoring three times in the second inning. With the Marlins grabbing early leads, New York tried to rally, trimming a 6-2 deficit with two runs in the ninth, but was unable to get the tying run on base. The same went for the final game, when the 23-year-old Beckett fired a five-hitter and only allowed the Yankees two baserunners after the fifth inning.
No. 46: 1942
St. Louis Cardinals 4, New York Yankees 1
Results: Game 1 – Yankees 7-4; Game 2 – Cardinals 4-3; Game 3 – Cardinals 2-0; Game 4 – Cardinals 9-6; Game 5 – Cardinals 4-2
MVP: None selected until 1955
Lasting impression: Enos Slaughter robbing the Yankees repeatedly. Slaughter, the Cardinals' right fielder, made multiple plays to keep New York off the scoreboard. In the ninth inning of the one-run second game, Slaughter grabbed a Buddy Hassett single and fired to nail pinch-runner Tuck Stainbeck, who was trying to go first to third. Slaughter made two big catches in the 2-0 third game, going back to the wall and leaping, his glove over the rim, to one-hand Charlie Keller's shot in the seventh inning just one batter after left-fielder Stan Musial grabbed one with his back to the wall. Slaughter later tracked down another Keller shot at the wall, making another spectacular catch to end the game.
The Series: A decent amount of excitement for a five-gamer, especially since the Yankees were thought of as unbeatable. St. Louis took four in a row after dropping the opener, in which the Cardinals scored all their runs in the ninth and had the bases loaded before Spud Chandler got Musial to ground out. Musial's two-out RBI single in the eighth inning of Game 2 scored Slaughter to break a tie, which was forced in the top of the eighth by three Yankees runs. Slaughter's and Musial's defense helped preserve the third game, while St. Louis scored twice in the seventh to break a 6-all tie in Game 4. Whitey Kurowski's two-run home run in the top of the ninth provided the Series margin, sealed only when, with New York runners on first and second with no outs in the bottom of the ninth, Joe Gordon was picked off second, causing the rally to lose steam.
No. 45: 1931
St. Louis Cardinals 4, Philadelphia Athletics 3
Results: Game 1 – A's 6-2; Game 2 – Cardinals 2-0; Game 3 – Cardinals 5-2; Game 4 – A's 3-0; Game 5 – Cardinals 5-1; Game 6 – A's 8-1; Game 7 – Cardinals 4-2
MVP: None selected until 1955
Lasting impression: Cardinals centerfielder Pepper Martin, who became a national name after entering the Series as an unknown commodity. Martin batted .500 with five runs and five RBIs and stole five bases. He also tracked down the Series-ending fly ball. He became a quotable popular figure, with the Milwaukee Journal noting Martin won over writers with his down-home, relaxed, quotable manner compared to many stiff pro athletes.
The Series: The Series is most noted for the Cardinals ending Philadelphia's three-peat bid. But, for a seven-gamer, it lacked drama. There were few nail-biters, and only in Game 1, when The A's scored four runs in the third inning, did a team rally for a victory. The biggest thrill came in Game 2 when Philadelphia, trailing 2-0, loaded the bases with two outs in the ninth, but could not get a run home. The A's had the tying run at the plate in the finale, but could not do anything.
No. 44: 1985
Kansas City Royals 4, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Results: Game 1 – Cardinals 3-1; Game 2 – Cardinals 4-2; Game 3 – Royals 6-1; Game 4 – Cardinals 3-0; Game 5 – Royals 6-1; Game 6 – Royals 2-1; Game 7 – Royals 11-0
MVP: Royals P Bret Saberhagen (2-0, 0.50 ERA, 2 CG, 1 SHO)
Lasting impression: Umpire Don Denkinger's badly botched call in Game 6 and the Cardinals' incredible implosion after it. St. Louis, prohibitive favorites holding a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the ninth and three outs away from a World Series title, had closer Todd Worrell on the mound with an 0-2 count on Jorge Orta, who was leading off the inning. Orta hit a chopper that first baseman Jack Clark grabbed between first and second. Worrell went to cover first and took Clark's throw. It was apparent that Orta still was making his final stride toward first when the throw arrived. But Denkinger ruled Orta safe. The Cardinals argued but nothing changed, and Orta stayed on first. The meltdown began. The only out St. Louis had the rest of the game came on a sacrifice bunt. Two more singles, a passed ball and intentional walk later, the Royals had forced Game 7 with Dane Iorg's two-run single. But the lack of focus went over to Game 7 with Denkinger behind the plate. Cardinals ace John Tudor didn't make it out of the third inning. During a fifth-inning walk to Jim Sundberg reliever Joaquin Andujar, with his team already down 10-0 and already griping about the calls he received as a starter in Game 3, began sniping at Denkinger. St. Louis manager Whitey Herzog came out and more of the previous night's frustrations were unleashed with Herzog telling Denkinger — with obscenities — that his team should be celebrating a title. Herzog was ejected. The next pitch was a ball that walked Sundberg, and Andujar started up at Denkinger again. He was ejected, with Andujar having to be restrained by about six of his teammates from going after Denkinger. Herzog vented after the game, saying the Royals deserved credit, but weren't that good. He called the umpires a disgrace and said he was glad to leave (be ejected) because he had seen enough. Denkinger, who received plenty of death threats after the call, later admitted his mistake. So has Major League Baseball, which has a video section on mlb.com entitled "Denkinger's Missed Call".
The Series: It had been a quiet Series up to that point, with Game 2 being the only thriller, as the Cardinals rallied from a 2-0 deficit in the top of the ninth with an RBI single from Clark and a three-run double by Terry Pendleton to go up 2-0 in the Series.
No. 43: 1987
Minnesota Twins 4, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Results: Game 1 – Twins 10-1; Game 2 – Twins 8-4; Game 3 – Cardinals – 3-1; Game 4 – Cardinals 7-2; Game 5 – Cardinals 4-2; Game 6 – Twins 11-5; Game 7 – Twins 4-2
MVP: Twins P Frank Viola (2-1, 3.72 ERA, 1 CG)
Lasting impression: Home Sweet Dome. For the first time in a World Series, the home team won every game. The Twins seemed to have a big advantage in their Metrodome, winning 56 of their 85 victories at home and not losing there in the postseason. Only two other Series have since gone the way of the home team winning every game — 2001 with Arizona and New York and 1991 with Minnesota and Atlanta.
The Series: Game 3, in St. Louis, is the point where the excitement started. The Cardinals, without power-hitter Jack Clark, rallied for three runs in the bottom of the seventh for the win. In the fifth game, they had to hold off a late Twins' charge, as Minnesota scored twice in the eighth and had runners at first and second in the ninth, but could not get them home. St. Louis had a 2-0 lead in the finale, but the Twins chipped away, with Kirby Puckett's RBI double in the fifth tying the contest. In the sixth, Greg Gagne put Minnesota ahead for good with a run-scoring infield single, and Dan Gladden added insurance with an RBI double in the eighth. Viola went the distance, retiring the final seven batters he faced, to close the Series.
No. 42: 1940
Cincinnati Reds 4, Detroit Tigers 3
Results: Game 1 – Tigers 7-2; Game 2 – Reds 5-3; Game 3 – Tigers 7-4; Game 4 – Reds 5-2; Game 5 – Tigers 8-0; Game 6 – Reds 4-0; Game 7 – Reds 2-1
MVP: None selected until 1955
Lasting impression: Grieving Bobo Newsom taking on the Reds in the deciding game on one day's rest. Newsom pitched two complete-game victories, including a Game 5 three-hit shutout. He only allowed more than one runner on base in Game 7, but that was in the seventh inning when Frank McCormick and Jimmy Ripple hit back-to-back doubles and Billy Myers hit the game-winning sacrifice fly. Newsom's father died after watching his son win the opening game, and Newsom's three-hitter came the day after his father was buried.
The Series: Not many thrillers, but some engaging pitching performances aside from Newsom's outings. Cincinnati's Bucky Walters threw a three-hitter and a five-hitter to win, respectively, the second and sixth games. Paul Derringer, bested by Newsom in the opener, threw a five-hitter in Game 4 and matched Newsom's seven-hit performance in the finale. The one game none of those pitchers factored into was the third contest, in which Detroit scored six times in the seventh and eighth innings to hold off the Reds, who scored three times during the final two innings.
No. 41: 1929
Philadelphia Athletics 4, Chicago Cubs 1
Results: Game 1 – A's 3-1; Game 2 – A's 9-3; Game 3 – Cubs 3-1; Game 4 – A's 10-8; Game 5 – A's 3-2
MVP: None selected until 1955
Lasting impression: Philadelphia's 10-run seventh inning in Game 4. The A's entered the bottom of the frame trailing 8-0, but Philadelphia sent 15 batters to the plate and made only one out among the first 13 batters. Al Simmons and Jimmie Foxx each scored twice in the seventh, while Simmons and Mule Haas each had home runs in the inning. Ten hits, a walk, a hit batsman and four Cubs pitchers later, the A's were on the way to a 3-1 Series lead, irrevocably changing the Series.
The Series: Only Game 2 was a sure thing. Philadelphia broke a 1-all tie with two runs in the ninth to win Game 1, Chicago rallied for three runs in the sixth to take Game 3 and, after the big seventh inning in Game 4, the A's closed the Series with three runs in the bottom of the ninth — with Haas' two-run home run tying the contest and Bing Miller's RBI double ending the Series.
No. 40: 1982
St. Louis Cardinals 4, Milwaukee Brewers 3
Results: Game 1 – Brewers 10-0; Game 2 – Cardinals 5-4; Game 3 – Cardinals 6-2; Game 4 – Brewers 7-5; Game 5 – Brewers 6-4; Game 6 – Cardinals 13-1; Game 7 – Cardinals 6-3
MVP: Cardinals C Darrell Porter (.286, 1 HR, 5 RBIs, 1 run)
Lasting impression: Willie McGee's Game 3. McGee was a rookie for the Cardinals. He hit only five home runs in the regular season, but had a three-run home run in the fifth for the game's first runs and added a solo shot in the seventh. But most impressive was the play he made in centerfield to rob Brewers power-hitter Gorman Thomas of a two-run home run. The Cardinals led 6-2 at the time, but Milwaukee was noted for its power and comebacks. McGee made a backhand, against-the-wall stab of Thomas' shot with one out and Ben Ogilvie on first that kept the lead at four.
The Series: The Cardinals bounced back after being on the wrong end of Mike Caldwell's Game 1 three-hitter when, trailing 4-2 in Game 2, Porter rapped a two-run double in the sixth. Steve Braun's bases-loaded walk in the eighth then won the contest. St. Louis seemed on its way to a 3-1 Series lead, leading 5-1 in the seventh inning, but the Brewers struck for six runs in the bottom of the seventh inning. After whittling away a 6-2 Milwaukee lead with two runs in the ninth inning of Game 5, the Cardinals, facing a Brewers staff without closer Rollie Fingers, had runners on first and second with one out but could not get them home. Milwaukee had a 3-1 lead in the final contest, but Keith Hernandez delivered a two-run single for St. Louis to tie in the sixth and George Hendrick drove in Hernandez with the go-ahead run.
No. 39: 1968
Detroit Tigers 4, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Results: Game 1 – Cardinals 4-0; Game 2 – Tigers 8-1; Game 3 – Cardinals 7-3; Game 4 – Cardinals 10-1; Game 5 – Tigers 5-3; Game 6 – Tigers 13-1; Game 7 – Tigers 4-1
MVP: Tigers P Mickey Lolich (3-0, 1.67 ERA, 3 CG, 1 SHO)
Lasting impression: Lolich out-dueling Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson in the final game. Gibson had bested Detroit 31-game-winner Denny McLain twice in the Series, including a 17-strikeout showing in the opener. Lolich won the second and fifth games, and with the Tigers forced to rally from a 3-1 Series deficit, manager Mayo Smith opted to use McLain on two days' rest in Game 6 and have Lolich, also on two days' rest, in the finale. Lolich and Gibson each were throwing shutouts until two outs in the top of the seventh inning. With two runners aboard, Cardinals centerfielder Curt Flood misjudged a shot by Jim Northrup, which turned into a triple. Northrup scored on a Bill Freehan double, and Detroit was on its way to a title.
The Series: There was one other critical juncture of the Series. That came in Game 5, when St. Louis pitcher Nellie Briles held a 3-2 lead against Lolich in the seventh inning. The Cardinals were eight outs away from wrapping up the Series but, after Briles surrendered a single to Lolich, he was lifted. Reliever Joe Hoerner issued a single and walk to load the bases, and Al Kaline and Norm Cash followed with RBI singles to push the Tigers into the lead. Lolich allowed two runners on with one out in the ninth, worked out the jam to force Game 6. Credit has to go to Freehan, a catcher, who threw out five St. Louis runners in 16 attempts in the Series, including twice catching renowned base-stealer Lou Brock. Freehan also tagged out Brock in the fifth inning of Game 5, with the Cardinals runner trying to go home from second on a single, but not sliding and being blocked by the catcher.
No. 38: 1980
Philadelphia Phillies 4, Kansas City Royals 2
Results: Game 1 – Phillies 7-6; Game 2 – Phillies 6-4; Game 3 – Royals 4-3 (10 inn.); Game 4 – Royals 5-3; Game 5 – Phillies 4-3; Game 6 – Phillies 4-1
MVP: Phillies 3B Mike Schmidt (.381, 2 HR, 7 RBIs, 6 runs)
Lasting impression: Del Unser's double down the right-field line in Game 5. It wasn't a game-winner, but it's tough to find a bigger hit in the Series. With the Series tied at 2, the Phillies entered the top of the ninth down 3-2 and facing closer Dan Quisenberry. Schmidt led off with a single and Unser, a journeyman who had a big postseason, stroked a double down the right-field line. Two batters later, Manny Trillo delivered an RBI single to bring home Unser. Philadelphia reliever Tug McGraw walked the bases loaded in the bottom of the inning, but got Jose Cardenal to strike out to end the game.
The Series: The Phillies trailed 4-0 in the first contest, but scored five times in the third inning and opened up a 7-4 lead. Down 4-2 in Game 2, Philadelphia victimized Quisenberry, with Unser and Schmidt producing RBI doubles and Bake McBride and Keith Moreland delivering RBI singles in the eighth inning for the win. The Royals dealt late-inning payback in the third game, with Willie Mays Aikens' walk-off single scoring Willie Wilson in the 10th. After Kansas City knotted the Series, the Phillies pulled out the pivotal Game 5. Philadelphia grabbed the early lead in the finale, but the Royals loaded the bases with one out in the ninth. McGraw got Frank White to hit a foul pop that bounced out of catcher Bob Boone's glove and into the hands of third baseman Pete Rose for the second out. McGraw then struck out Wilson — the 12th in the Series he went down on strikes — to give Philadelphia the championship.
No. 37: 1915
Boston Red Sox 4, Philadelphia Phillies 1
Results: Game 1 – Phillies 3-1; Game 2 – Red Sox 2-1; Game 3 – Red Sox 2-1; Game 4 – Red Sox 2-1; Game 5 – Red Sox 5-4
MVP: None selected until 1955
Lasting impression: The Phillies' late addition of 400 bleachers in right-center field. Owner William Baker tacked on 400 seats in that area to pad the gate totals. But, it cost him perhaps $40,000 from a sixth game — and maybe $40,000 more from a seventh game — as Boston hit two home runs into that section in Game 5. Duffy Lewis' two-run shot in the eighth inning tied the contest, and Harry Hooper's home run on an 0-2 pitch that went into the bleachers in the ninth to give the Red Sox the World Series win.
The Series: All but Game 4 were decided by runs scored in the eighth or ninth innings, with Lewis' and Hooper's home runs being the most significant shots. There were two three-hitters, a five-hitter and six-hitter thrown in the Series. As an interesting side note, Babe Ruth made his World Series debut, playing only once and grounding out as a pinch-hitter with one out in the ninth of the opening game. As an aside, President Woodrow Wilson attended Game 2, becoming the first President to take in a World Series game.
No. 36: 1967
St. Louis Cardinals 4, Boston Red Sox 3
Results: Game 1 – Cardinals 2-1; Game 2 – Red Sox 5-0; Game 3 – Cardinals 5-2; Game 4 – Cardinals 6-0; Game 5 – Red Sox 3-1; Game 6 – Red Sox 8-4; Game 7 – Cardinals 7-2
MVP: Cardinals P Bob Gibson (3-0, 1.00 ERA 3 CG, 2 SHO, 27 IP, 26 K, 5 BB, 14 H)
Lasting impression: Gibson cementing his reputation as one of the game's greatest. The hurler won all but Game 3 for the Cardinals, when Nellie Briles tossed a complete game. But Gibson's most-celebrated outing was in Game 7 when he faced Red Sox ace Jim Lonborg, with both working on short rest. Gibson had a no-hitter through four, while Lonborg, who had won two of Boston's games to that point, left trailing 7-1. That was enough for St. Louis, with players seething after seeing a Boston paper headline its advance coverage of Game 7 with "Lonborg and Champagne", chanting that phrase in the locker room after the game.
The Series: A few things stand out aside from Gibson. Lou Brock of the Cardinals swiped seven bases in as many tries, scoring the tiebreaking run in the seventh inning of Game 1 on Roger Maris' groundout after singling, stealing second and advancing to third on a groundout. The Red Sox added to a 1-0 lead in the ninth inning of Game 5 on Elston Howard's RBI single and an error. Boston forced a seventh game by breaking a 4-all tie in the seventh inning of Game 6 on RBIs from Joe Foy, Mike Andrews, Jerry Adair and Reggie Smith. That set up the final contest, with Lonborg, on two days' rest, getting jumped on early.
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The 10 Dirtiest Foods You're Eating
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The dirt: Never mind cigarettes; the Surgeon General should slap a warning label on chicken. Recent nationwide testing by Consumers Union, the advocacy group behind Consumer Reports, notes that of the 484 raw broilers examined, 42 percent were infected by Campylobacter jejuni, and 12 percent by Salmonella enterides.
The latest USDA research notes similar Salmonella levels. Now add in the fact that we each consume about 70 pounds of chicken a year—more than our intake of beef, pork, or turkey—and it's a wonder broilers don't come with barf bags.
At the supermarket: Look for birds labeled "free range." Close quarters in the henhouse give bad bugs the chance to spread, as do high-volume processing operations. Free-range chickens, which are given more room to roost and are usually slaughtered in smaller numbers, present a potentially safer option. For example, Ranger chickens, a free-range brand sold in the Pacific Northwest, came up negative for Salmonella and Campylobacter in Consumers Union's tests.
At home: To help prevent foodborne illness, bypass rinsing your raw bird in the sink, and instead put it directly into a baking dish or pan. This shortcut reduces the odds of sullying counters and other foods, says Janet B. Anderson, R.D., director of the Safe Food Institute in North Logan, Utah. If you used a cutting board, clean it (and the knife) with a mild, dilute bleach solution. As for your heat treatment, cook breasts and other cuts until the temperature hits 180°F. (If it's a whole bird, take the temperature in the thickest part of the thigh.) "Poking the chicken or judging by juice color is risky," says Anderson.
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A 33-YEAR-OLD man suffered serious facial injuries after being hit by a bottle when he confronted a gang of youths.
The attack happened in Bancroft Drive, Allestree, 5.35pm on Sunday.
Police say the victim spoke to five youths who were in an alleyway and challenged their behaviour.
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Cheddleton OAP, 71, was over the limit after Christmas Eve car crash
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A 71-YEAR-OLD retired nurse helping out a friend was caught drink-driving on Christmas Eve – after downing a gin and tonic and a rum and coke.
Rene Gleave had drunk the shorts earlier in the night before offering to give her friend a lift home.
But Staffordshire Police were called after Gleave crashed into a parked vehicle in Clover Grove, Leekbrook, near Leek, at just after 11.30pm on Christmas Eve.
North Staffordshire Justice Centre was told yesterday how a neighbour heard a loud bang and then saw a car reversing on the housing estate.
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A breath test gave a reading of 52 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath – when the legal limit is 35.
Now Gleave, of Ox Pasture, Cheddleton, has been handed a 12-month driving ban after admitting drink-driving.
She was also fined £225 and ordered to pay £85 costs.
Mike Stephenson, defending, told the court that his client was at home with her husband and a friend who had come to their house for Christmas Eve.
He said: "During the evening she had a gin and tonic and a rum and coke which she consumed over a long period of time.
"The friend was about to leave and the defendant offered them a lift home."
Mr Stephenson told the court that the friend lived on a new housing estate where there were no lights and Gleave had got lost.
She was trying to do a three point turn when she clipped a parked vehicle.
The court heard Gleave – who has been driving for more than 40 years – was totally ashamed of what had happened.
Mr Stephenson added: "She very rarely drinks but it was Christmas Eve."
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Samuel Pahlsson signs with Modo, the Swedish franchise that sounds like it's part of Middle Earth
You might recall Samuel Pahlsson (a.k.a Sammy, Sami, Samme, and SamJam99, as his friends call him) from the final 19 games of the 2011-12 regular season, when he was a member of the Vancouver Canucks. (What's that? He played in the playoffs too? I don't remember that.) But if the name doesn't ring a bell, no matter — he doesn't play for the Canucks anymore, so you don't need to know who he is.
As first reported by Thomas Drance on Sunday, Pahlsson has left the NHL to sign with Swedish Elite League franchise Modo, in his hometown of Örnsköldsvik.
Pahlsson told Swedish reporter Jonatan Lindqvist that he spoke with the Canucks prior to leaving the NHL, but there wasn't much to the talks, as the team had "big things in the making." Clearly, these things didn't involve the veteran centre (unless Mike Gillis is planning to move the Canucks' AHL affiliate to Örnsköldsvik). Presumably, these things involve some other centre, however, because until Ryan Kesler gets back, the team only has three pivots. That is, unless they're planning to promote Jordon Schroeder to the NHL, but no plan involving Jordan Schroeder should ever be called "big." He's quite small.
Canucks remember Aaron Volpatti exists, re-sign him
Speaking of players you might have forgotten about, remember Aaron Volpatti? The fourth liner, most known for A) one-punching Brad Winchester that one time in the preseason and B) having a name conducive to puns, has re-signed in Vancouver for another year. It's a two-way contract that will pay him $600k at the NHL level and $105k at the AHL level.
Volpatti's second professional contract is a downgrade from his first. When he signed with Vancouver the first time around, he was fresh out of the NCAA and had a number of suitors. As a result, he was able to strike a two-year deal that paid him $612,500 at the NHL level and $200k at the AHL level. Unfortunately, he was unable to prove himself as an NHL commodity, and with no leverage, he was forced to take a step backward.
Hopefully, this is the only step Volpatti has lost due to his injury-shortened sophomore campaign. He can hit like a truck, but he's had very few opportunities to show this at the NHL level, because he hasn't had the NHL footspeed to get to the puck-carrier in time to make solid body contact. If he can't get faster, he'll spend most of next year with the Chicago Wolves.
Cory Schneider, Eddie Lack, and Dale Weise get qualifying offers, which in news only in the sense that it's a thing that happened
Qualifying offers are boring. Basically, it's just a promise to start negotiations with a team's restricted free agents around the same amount they made last year, and your only other options are to tell a player he's not worth what he made last year by taking him to arbitration to hopefully get him for less (the Mason Raymond approach), or to tell a player he's not worth what he made last year by not calling him (the cowardly breakup approach).
With Schneider, Lack, and Weise, the Canucks simply opted to qualify them. We shouldn't be surprised. Most feel the first two will be the Canucks' goaltending tandem in 2012-13, and Dale Weise quietly had a very good rookie season.You may think he didn't, but think about this: how often did you find yourself shaking a fist at Weise's boneheaded defensive miscues? Not very often, eh? Think back to the fourth-liners of the past. That's not all that common, is it? You like Dale Weise. You just don't know it yet.
Craig Mactavish leaves Chicago for Edmonton, dumped Canucks immediately look up old flame
When he took over the Chicago Wolves at the beginning of last season, there were rumblings that it wouldn't be long before Craig MacTavish was back in the NHL, especially if he showed he could still coach. He only sort of did, but that was good enough for the Edmonton Oilers, who decided, well, he can't come back and coach since we fired him from that position recently, so hey, let's make him the Vice President of Hockey Operations, because why the Hell not, let's go to Arby's.
The Canucks said all the right things, but they probably weren't all that sad to see him go. The Wolves under MacTavish were a middling team most of the year and they played a modified neutral-zone trap. It was the first time in the Gillis era that the Canucks' AHL affiliate played a completely different style than they did. Gilly no likey.
So who's going to replace MacTavish in Chicago? My money's on Scott Arniel, whose reputation as an NHL coach was extirpated by his Hellish exit from Columbus. (Seriously, before you talk about the Blue Jackets' 2011-12 season, you have to throw a handful of midnight dust on the fire and say, "Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society.")
But it's not just that he's crazy available and desperate to prove he "didn't forget how to coach overnight," as he said after being let go in Ohio. Arniel was the coach of the Manitoba Moose from 2006-2010, so he knows the Canucks well. Furthermore, the two sides are pretty into one another, if the mash notes they passed through Elliott Pap are any indication. "There are five or six names that we've tossed around and Scotty is one of those names for sure," Canucks' Assistant GM Lorne Henning told Pap in the Vancouver Sun. "I don't know what he has planned. I mean, I'm sure he has some things on the burner, too."
Do you have a date for the prom yet? Because, um, neither do I. I mean, you probably already do, but if you don't…
And here's Arniel, from the same article:
I want to be an NHL head coach again but I don't know if there is anything for me this year. Certainly there are some assistant jobs available but this one [Wolves] is intriguing.
"I know the organization very well and I've obviously worked with Mike Gillis and Lorne and Laurence Gilman. There is lots of respect there and I think we've had a really good arrangement in the past."
Seriously, get a room, you guys. Then go into it and sign a contract.
Canuck release preseason schedule, it has those stupid split-squad games on it again
The Canucks released their preseason schedule Monday. Just like the last two years, it will begin with two Flames games at the same bloody time, forcing you to PVR the one on TV while watching the other one on a choppy Canucks.com livestream because they hate you.
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I think the Canucks would've need to have something planned regardless of how they felt about Pahlsson. The idea of playing half of a season with a centre of his ilk in our top 6 would already fill me with dread. The way I see it, with him the team would've had 3 bottom 6 centres (including Lapierre and Manny), so now it just allows both of those guys to play their natural position. Hard to know how Gillis plans to make up for Kesler's absence, be it giving the spot to a young guy like Schroeder or the trade/free agent route, but one thing for certain was that it wasn't going to be by using Pahlsson there.
I blame Brad Marchand.
Here's what he had to say about the Salo is your Pal-o contest:
"The puck was going around the boards and I went to pick it up," Marchand said. "I was looking over my shoulder and saw Salo is your Pal-o coming. I just kind of went down. It was very unfortunate that he lost the results of the contest on the play."
"…well, he can't come back and coach since we fired him from that position recently, so hey, let's make him the Vice President of Hockey Operations, because why the Hell not, let's go to Arby's."
Y'know those awkward moments where you try really hard not to laugh out loud at work and the fight between your sense of job preservation and humour appreciation results in some very unprofessional sounds and facial expressions? …yeah, uh, me neither. Nope.
Oh, and +1 internets for an Are You Afraid Of The Dark reference. Seriously, the '90s and nerd/geek cred at this blog? Gold.
Too bad about paullson, I thought he would have been useful. I mean you can never have too many swedes……
And I already know that I do like Dale Weise. When I first saw him I thought, why did we get a goon like him? But he has a surprizing amount of skill for someone who has had their nose broken so many times. And really, did we see him take a 5 min major in the playoffs in game 1? No, no we didn't, but then it may be difficult to do that from the press box.
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When Ball's cousin, Cynthia Whitfield, arrived at the filling station to identify the body, police picked up another lead. She told a detective that one year earlier a man named Jesse Watson had tried to kill Ball at this very spot. Watson had skipped town after the shooting, she said, but had recently returned. Word was he'd been threatening to finish the job. The story would be repeated to homicide detectives the next day by Cynthia's mother, Brenda Whitfield.
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The next day detective Stephen Hobbs contacted Claudex Simmons, who flipped burgers at a McDonald's restaurant across Delmar from the Amoco station. Simmons told the detective that on the night of the murder he'd stopped at VW after work to buy rum and Coke. As he left the store, he said, he'd heard three gunshots. But that was it: He hadn't seen the assailant.
At age 24, Claudex Simmons was a petty thief who'd racked up multiple felonies. Months earlier he'd been released from Algoa Correctional Center, where he'd served time with Darryl Burton. And on June 11, 1984 -- four days after his initial interview with police -- he was back in jail on an attempted-robbery charge.
Simmons asked to speak to someone from Homicide: He wanted to talk about the murder of Donald Ball.
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After viewing a series of photographs, Simmons identified the same man Eddie Walker had a few days earlier: Darryl Burton.
The trial of Darryl Burton began on March 25, 1985. Poorly attended and with scant press, the two-day proceeding offered little in the way of rhetorical flourish. With bland tenacity, Assistant Circuit Attorney Anthony Gonzalez trotted out a series of witnesses who were unable to link Burton to the murder. Some had heard shots but had not seen the killer. Others had seen the shooter but, like eyewitness Carolyn Linsay, could recall only that the killer "was wearing a pale yellow T-shirt and a pair of khaki pants." Gonzalez offered only a single piece of physical evidence: the copper-jacketed slug.
It was not until the state called Eddie Walker Jr. that the prosecution produced a witness who could positively identify Burton as the killer. The National Guardsman had initially told investigators that on the night of the murder he'd been sipping a half-pint of gin outside VW with a man named "Jessie." Walker told police he'd known the man for nearly five years, but didn't know his last name.
That wasn't the only hole in Eddie Walker's story. In the police report and at trial, Sergeant Herbert Riley stated that he met Walker through the informant "Tampa Red." During his deposition, Walker had flatly denied knowing anyone by the name "Tampa Red." But he revised his story at trial. "Well, I didn't know Tampa Red, but we had another name for him," Walker testified when asked who had introduced him to police. "We used to call him 'Blue-Eyed Soul Brother.'"
During his initial interview with police, Walker told investigators he'd seen the murderer cross Delmar from the south. He also stated that he'd seen the killer chase down Ball and shoot him. At trial, however, Walker's story shifted. "Do you recall telling detective Riley that the person who did this shooting walked from the south side of Delmar?" asked public defender Dorothy Hirzy during cross-examination.
"No, I did not tell him that," said Walker, testifying now that he'd become aware of the melee only when he heard gunshots.
Hirzy pressed Walker, asking the witness if he remembered telling Riley he'd seen the killer approach, shoot Ball and flee in a blue 1976 Buick.
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Arizona is better than even-money favorite to win the Pac-12 basketball tournament, and the oddsmakers also like No. 8 seed Utah's chances of winning four games this week a lot more than No. 9 seed Washington's chances.
The Utes have a 15-1 shot at the tournament title and Washington, their first-round opponent today at 1 p.m. MDT, is a 40-1 pick, according to the Las Vegas Consultants.
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Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954. His family moved to England in 1960. He attended the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of East Anglia. His novels have been nominated four times for the Man Booker Prize, which "Remains of the Day" won in 1989. "A Pale View of Hills," his first novel, won the Winifred Holtby Prize of the Royal Society of Literature and has been translated into thirteen languages. "An Artist of the Floating World" won the 1986 Whitbread of the Year Award and has been translated into fourteen languages. His most recent novel is "Never Let Me Go." He currently lives in London. Jessica Hische is a letterer, illustrator, typographer, and web designer. She currently serves on the Type Directors Club board of directors, has been named a "Forbes Magazine" "30 under 30" in art and design as well as an ADC Young Gun and one of "Print Magazine"'s "New Visual Artists." She has designed for Wes Anderson, "McSweeney's," Tiffany & Co, Penguin Books and many others. She resides primarily in San Francisco, occasionally in Brooklyn.
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Winner of the 2012 Fifty Books/Fifty Covers show, organized by Design Observer in association with AIGA and Designers & Books Winner of the 2014 Type Directors Club Communication Design Award Praise for Penguin Drop Caps: "[Penguin Drop Caps] convey a sense of nostalgia for the tactility and aesthetic power of a physical book and for a centuries-old tradition of beautiful lettering." --"Fast Company" "Vibrant, minimalist new typographic covers.... Bonus points for the heartening gender balance of the initial selections." --Maria Popova, "Brain Pickings" "The Penguin Drop Caps series is a great example of the power of design. Why buy these particular classics when there are less expensive, even free editions of "Great Expectations"? Because they're beautiful objects. Paul Buckley and Jessica Hische's fresh approach to the literary classics reduces the design down to typography and color. Each cover is foil-stamped with a cleverly illustrated letterform that reveals an element of the story. Jane Austen's A ("Pride and Prejudice") is formed by opulent peacock feathers and Charlotte Bronte's B ("Jane Eyre") is surrounded by flames. The complete set forms a rainbow spectrum prettier than anything else on your bookshelf." --Rex Bonomelli, "The New York Times" "Drool-inducing." --"Flavorwire" "Classic reads in stunning covers--your book club will be dying." --"Redbook"