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82. The Mets outscored the A's, but Oakland won two nail-biters, and Reggie hit a big homer in Game 7. 1958: Yankees over BravesThe Yankees and Braves played back-to-back seven-game series in 1957-58. Here's our ranking of the 25 best games in World Series history. Now hurrying, Cuellar flipped the ball high, and Clemente was on." Game leverage: 35th. In the top of the 10th, Fred Merkle, author of one of the most legendary mistakes in baseball history -- the delightfully named "Merkle's Boner" -- seemed to atone for that mistake from four years earlier, cracking an RBI single to give the Giants the lead. See if you notice any similarities from Joe Buck's call of that home run to his dad's call of Puckett's shot two decades earlier. "That jacked us up," one Royal said.) Series leverage: 51st It was, but maybe it was the right ending after all. First basemen convert outs on about 93% of the balls they field -- or attempt to field -- but that includes sharp grounders, popups in the sun, line drives and so on. He quickly backtracked: "No, they can't use instant replay on plays like that. 35. The finale of a prestige drama. Gibson's 1.12 ERA set a major-league record for a full-season starting pitcher, one that likely won't ever be broken. Game leverage: 64th. It was surreal, it was painful, it was delirious. The 11th turned out to be one inning too much for him, and he allowed the two runs that would decide the game. 36. "The unhappy Reds pilot, Sparky Anderson, kept shaking his head and muttering, 'He's the whole series so far,'" The New Yorker reported. Game leverage: 9th, With a one-run lead and two outs in the ninth inning of Game 4, Dodgers pitcher Hugh Casey struck out Tommy Henrich swinging. 54. If ever you could: This was it. On the mound for the Yanks was Don Larsen, a capable but mostly unspectacular right-hander. ), 33. This is not a fusion of various World Series teams, rather it's just the very best lineups for each franchise that ever made it to the World Series. 84. "It all flows from me," Reggie Jackson said that summer. There was an exciting Game 4 in the series as the Blue Jays . 3. Series leverage: 17th Boston scored a pair in the bottom of the frame after two Giants errors. Game leverage: 81st. 2002: Angels over Giants in seven If this series had been a best-of-99, the Yankees would have won in 50. I have done a report of some kind on the Fred Merkle story, whether in print, on radio, or on TV, on or about its anniversary, September 23, virtually every year since I was in college. The 1927 Yankees of Ruth and Gehrig. 1992: Blue Jays over Braves in six In the years that followed, the Cardinals continued to say they'd been "cheated" out of the title, and it took a decade for Herzog and the Cardinals to publicly soften toward him. Playoff bracket, schedule and more ». Series leverage: 99th Then Lou Gehrig had a chance to end it with a walk-off but struck out. 1917: White Sox over Giants in six Inning. They found the opponent's secret pressure point, and with a tiny flick of the finger, they killed the Mets. The Royals were the team that, in that postseason and the next, aggressively pushed the other team's defense until the other team's defense made a mistake. However, they were only able to compete in one playoff game because they were in the best division in baseball. The Yankees' three wins in the middle of the series included two minor miracles, with two-run homers in the ninth to tie the games and walk-offs in extra innings. 71. 1975: Reds over Red Sox. How divinely just the outcome felt when we learned about the Astros' banging scheme? This is a book that every fan, every follower of sports radio, every fantasy player, every coach, and every player, at every level, can learn from and enjoy. 1969: Mets over Orioles in five Sam Miller », 83. This text describes the top ten baseball teams in great detail. With specific statistics as well as fun facts and photos, young readers will learn about their favorite teams and what made them truly great. But he told his producer he couldn't, that there was "a rat on my leg that's as big as a cat. When Bob Stanley uncorked a wild pitch to tie the game and put Knight in scoring position, the Mets had climbed 35% to win the World Series: They needed a single (or something) and a win in Game 7. He reached his peak that season as the Yankees won 110 games out of 154. Game leverage: 19th. 6. This was the first of three consecutive World Series titles for the A's. Game leverage: 33rd. Only this time, the Motor City Kitties finally got to him. Game leverage: 79th. Đội chiến thắng được xác định qua 1 loạt trận playoff đấu 7 thắng 4 (Best of 7), đội chiến thắng sẽ nhận được cúp Commissioner's . Feliz lost his control: He walked Lance Berkman on four pitches, putting the tying run on, then fell behind 2-0 to Allen Craig, six consecutive balls after the Pujols hit. Then finally in the 10th, a Gene Larkin single off Braves closer Alejandro Pena handed Minnesota its second World Series crown in five seasons. 10 Best World Series Most Valuable Performances of All Time. Game leverage: 31st. "Author Warren N. Wilbert, with input from SABR members, singles out 26 World Series games worthy of being called one of the best"--Provided by publisher. Sweden deserves to be included among the best teams ever assembled despite failing to win it all on home ice in '93. They'd won their previous five postseason games by a total score of 48-2 and were heading back home to Atlanta. Babe Ruth getting caught stealing to end the World Series -- as the tying run in a Game 7 -- is the sport's all-time Mighty Casey moment. Game 2 had, according to the New York Times' telling, "the most dramatic ending that any world's series game ever had," and it's frustrating even 100 years later: The umpire called it for darkness at 4:45 p.m. with the score tied in the 10th and, according to spectators, the sun out. 1988: Dodgers over A's in five 2009: Yankees over Phillies in six 3. Rivera had thrown 78 postseason innings to that point in his career, had a 0.70 postseason ERA and had converted 23 postseason saves in a row (many of them two innings). The top four are all from earlier eras. 27. It would have been higher on the list if Game 7 had been more memorable. Found insideIn Cincinnati Red and Dodger Blue: Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Rivalry, Tom Van Riper provides a fresh look at these two powerhouse teams and the circumstances that made them so pivotal. Sianis cursed the team, according to a legend that wasn't really crafted until Sianis died in 1970. The Rangers sent up Esteban German to pinch hit for Scott Feldman -- an aggressive move that cost them Feldman, their best available pitcher. The Athletics pulled out the pennant, saving us from that timeline, but A's star Rube Waddell didn't pitch, for reasons still unclear. 2005: White Sox over Astros in four 1995: Braves over Indians in six 44. And then they lost, on Rivera's throwing error and three broken-bat hits, on a walk-off flare that landed a foot beyond the infield over a drawn-in Derek Jeter. Game leverage: 85th. Freese was on it. One is Sandy Koufax sitting out Game 1 for Yom Kippur, an incredible statement of the "it's just a game" truth we all strive to keep in mind. The great Rollie Fingers pitched in all six close ones, his only "blemish" being the failure to preserve a one-run lead for a five-inning save. - 1972 to 1974 Oakland As for dominating baseball and winning three World Series in a row. Series leverage: 18th The Royals identified the Mets' smallest weakness, one so obscure and pointless it sounds like a joke: The first baseman's throwing arm? Also Babe Ruth's first as an outfielder, but he was ailing and only intermittently available. Series leverage: 22nd The 1927 Yankees were one of the greatest teams ever. We sort of knew it then: The Marlins were a pop-up contender built on a free-agent spree the club's owner immediately repudiated, while Cleveland, with a citywide sports championship drought to end, was an underdog story that had transformed from the punchline of "Major League" into a truly homegrown powerhouse. (The '56 Yankees ranked second in park-adjusted offense.) But for the individual Giants, the years from 2010 to 2014 contained sprawling arcs, full of twists. Jim Northrup's drive to deep center should have been caught by Curt Flood, but instead went for a misjudged triple that knocked in the first two runs of the game. 1960: Pirates over Yankees in seven 1976: Reds over Yankees in four He did. Game leverage: 93rd. Game leverage: 51st. 35. Baby Shark? The Dodgers and Astros combined to win 205 games this season. 1. They sent the seventh game of the World Series into the ninth inning with Mariano Rivera on the mound with a lead. Game . 74. He would be facing a Dodgers offense that led the majors in park-adjusted offense, with Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges and Carl Furillo tearing apart National League pitching. The biggest hit in this series, by championship win probability added (cWPA), was David Eckstein's tiebreaking double in Game 4 -- just the 447th-biggest play in Series history. And he did it! 57. Found inside – Page 78Yet in the '69 World Series they were outpitched were the best team ever. That team outscored its opponents by Tom Seaver and the Miracle Mets. The Sox had been down 3-0 to the Yankees, a deficit that no team had ever overcome. It began with Hall-of-Fame-bound starters Roger Clemens and Curt Schilling trading zeros through six. Game leverage: 30th. Win Percentage (Pythagorean):.649 (.656) Team WAA (Rank): 16.2 (T-50th) When your manager is a guy named "Pants Rowland," you have yourself one hell of a baseball team. Series leverage: 10th Series leverage: 46th . 38. 1949: Yankees over Dodgers in five One strike away from elimination in the bottom of the ninth, Cardinals third baseman and St. Louis native David Freese slashed a line drive to right. Series leverage: 14th 2010: Giants over Rangers in five But Amoros' catch was, by cWPA, about 20 times more consequential. The Yankees won four World Series in five years, and while they might have had better teams in that time, nothing ever feels as good as it feels the first time. The list », 3. Then Gibson homered to put the series away, arms raised as he circled the bases. Final tally: 15-14 Jays win, with four lead changes and five different instances of a team scoring three or more in an inning. Of course, it was just baseball. Big inning erases big deficit in game 4. The league chose the World Series, of all times, to introduce a new, livelier baseball, and the results were immediate: Scoring went from 3.8 runs/game in the regular season to 5.0 in the World Series (and 4.5 in 1911). He was not. Owen was the Bill Buckner of his era, though the subsequent meltdown would in some ways more closely resemble the Cubs' fumbles after the Steve Bartman play. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. He finished 41 games for the Dodgers that year, but they unexpectedly decided he would start Game 1. Few plays are simpler than this one. ), 104. Game leverage: 39th. But that whole series was incredible, with five one-run games and three extra-inning affairs, including a Game 6 that ended with Kirby Puckett's walk-off in the 11th. Every other game was decided by one run. After a dogfight of a series, the ninth inning felt (inaccurately, but nevertheless viscerally) as though the Rays had given up. Neither teams won any games at home. Forget seven-game series -- could anything be more fun than watching Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth do that? Every White Sox starter went at least seven innings. ), 25. 1973: Athletics over MetsReggie Jackson won his first of two World Series MVP Awards. Game leverage: 107th. History flattens narratives, so we remember this as just part of the Giants' mini-dynasty. This is easily the best crop of teams to never win a World Series, and if it wasn't for Jose Mesa, this wouldn't be the case. The games weren't close until Game 7, and even by postseason standards they were uncomfortably long -- six of the 13 slowest World Series games of the decade came in this series -- and I clearly recall conversations in the middle of it about how boring the series had been, relatively speaking. Here then are the 10 best World Series of all time, with all the memories and digits that helped make them great. When Buckner positioned himself in front of it, facing it directly, both hands out? 2017: Astros over DodgersThis series included two of the craziest contests in World Series history, Games 2 and 5. The Giants scored two in the top of the 12th, then held on to win 4-3. Hubbell got the game-ending double play. In the weeklong series focusing on a different baseball theme each day, we asked our MLB reporters to tell us the stories of the best they ever saw -- with only one rule: They had to be there to witness it in person. Fickle game. The Cardinals, meanwhile, hit just 67 homers as a team, barely more homers than they hit triples, while stealing 200 bags. Game leverage: 1st. The Red Sox won the most games. Brown won two World Series with the Chicago Cubs in the early 1900s and put together a dominant career on the mound. 25. 1915: Red Sox over Phillies in five Every World Cup is a special event but, like your children, there's always one that you secretly love a little bit more than the others. That set up a Game 5 for the ages. A's owner Connie Mack essentially threw a fit, sold off a bunch of his best players, and his team dropped to 43-109 in 1915. 6. We'll list each World Series' rank in the first two categories. Not quite soon enough, actually. Baseball's Best 1,000 is sure to spark controversy and debate among fans. The 2016 . Sitting on a 14-9 lead with two innings to go, Philly's bullpen imploded, as Toronto erupted for six in the eighth. The same matchup as the previous season, but this time both teams had gotten better. 63. 60. 1932: Yankees over Cubs in four The Herb Washington experiment -- sign an elite competitive sprinter to do nothing but pinch run -- was delightful in theory, depressing in practice, as Washington struggled to learn and his teammates griped. Game leverage: 40th. Game 5 was the last time a starting pitcher was allowed to face the potential winning run in the ninth inning of a World Series. No, not that one (we will get to that one in a second). Found insideIt was the best of Hargrove's five consecutive division winners, maybe one of the best teams ever that didn't win the World Series, and certainly the best ... "Parties don't mean anything to me. The World Series has been presented to baseball's champion since 1903, but the common fan can only recall so many of the winners. By the end of WWII, about 500 major leaguers had served -- in a league with 400 active players at any given time -- and the standings were weird. The cameraman, Louis Gerard, was supposed to follow the ball. Series leverage: 49th What's next for Phillies after elimination. In Game 4, Gibson totally slacked, this time actually giving up a run (gross) on five hits, while only striking out 10 (lame). Game leverage: 5th. He flied to the edge of the warning track, and after a slightly awkward break, Dave Parker ran it down. He had some of his biggest moments against the Yankees, but nearly all of his worst ones, too. Series leverage: 25th 2016: Cubs over IndiansWho can forget Game 7 -- the Cubs taking control, the Cleveland comeback, and the rain delay that altered the entire dynamic? 1922: Giants over Yankees in five (one game tied) 1941: Yankees over Dodgers in five It climbed to 2% with Gary Carter's rally-starting single, to 5% when Kevin Mitchell singled as the potential tying run, and 11% when Ray Knight singled as the potential go-ahead run. Game leverage: 95th. How memorable the series was. Tommy Henrich hit the first walk-off homer in a World Series game. 1905: Giants over A's in five -With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship ... This, the fourth in the sequence, was the most forgettable of the six. The White Sox's 11-1 postseason record ended a World Series drought that was two years longer than the Red Sox's had been. We haven't got one call from the three American League umpires in this thing. 1934: Cardinals over Tigers in seven Series leverage: 100th In that game, Bautista went 3-for-4 with five RBI. The 1987 Twins were objectively the worst team to ever win the World Series. 1912: Red Sox over GiantsThe decisive game featured heroes and goats. The Dodgers pulled off a 1-0 extra-inning win to send the series to Game 7, but the Yankees blew them out 9-0 to clinch it. He struck out the first two batters, and on a 2-2 count to Jorge Posada he had five shots at finishing off Posada and striking out the side. There have been 626 World Series games, from Deacon Phillippe battling Cy Young at the Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds on Oct. 1, 1903, to Doug Fister facing Madison Bumgarner on a postcard . But winning the pennant and the World Series would not come easily for the Mets. 30. Game leverage: 62nd. It took a little while for Ruth to warm up to the legend and indulge in it. The league chose the World Series, of all times, to introduce a new, livelier baseball, and the results were immediate: Scoring went from 3.8 runs/game in the regular season to 5.0 in the World . 1982: Cardinals over Brewers in seven Game leverage: 27th. These are two power-packed rosters, and the potential is there for a barnburner seven-game series. How could Adames not swing at that pitch, when even a foul ball would have helped set this season slightly righter, one pitch longer? And what if your business could duplicate that excellence? This book reveals fourteen core management principles behind the Yankees' eighty-year dynasty and shows you how to apply them in your own organization. Series leverage: 64th Few things are better than a young star's superstardom manifesting itself in the middle of a World Series, and Josh Beckett -- ahead of 2002 Francisco Rodriguez, 1996 Andruw Jones and 2019 Juan Soto -- might be the best modern example. The AL pennant had very nearly been won by the White Sox, whose owner had vowed not to participate -- just as the Giants had skipped it in 1904, calling it a mere exhibition. The '54 World Series is best known for Willie Mays' sensational over-the-shoulder-catch in deep center field in Game 1, but the other story should be the Giants pitching. 1984: Tigers over Padres in five And what's next for Alex Cora? By cWPA, that's the biggest hit in major league history. Kirk Gibson was out, of course, but so was Mike Marshall, and they'd traded the slugger Pedro Guerrero midseason to get star pitcher John Tudor, who also got injured during the World Series. 1965: Dodgers over TwinsThis was the Sandy Koufax series. He was right, as the Cardinals broke a ninth-inning tie with a two-run homer to win. A repeat of the not-very-close 1936 World Series matchup. Series leverage: 68th would have elevated an otherwise bland World Series -- five of the first six games were decided by five runs or more -- to a pretty good one. 1972: A's over Reds in seven He got out of the jam he had inherited, pitched scoreless seventh and eighth innings, got two outs in the ninth and appeared to have the final one. If you had to pick another team to go nuts over, it might be the 1948 Cleveland club. Barry Zito, the Giants' highest-paid player, didn't appear in the 2010 World Series but won Game 1 in 2012; Pablo Sandoval was benched for the 2010 Series, but he won the MVP in 2012; and Tim Lincecum's career was collapsing, and he wouldn't appear in 2014, but he starred as a multi-inning relief ace in 2012. Series leverage: 97th Carl Hubbell had a one-run lead in the bottom of the 11th inning in Game 4. 13. 103. The inning before Maz ended things, Hal Smith hit a three-run homer with two outs in the eighth, turning a deficit into a lead. One accusation is Waddell had been bribed to skip it. They still lost. Series leverage: 61st "I'm the straw that stirs the drink." The Giants' Fred Merkle, already infamous for a baserunning mistake four years prior, hit what looked like the game-winning single in the top of the 10th, but exoneration was not meant to be. After the Yankees and Giants met in '51, the Yankees and Dodgers linked up for four of the next five. With the Twins facing elimination, the game wore on into the 11th. Series leverage: 81st 1982: Cardinals over BrewersThe Brewers won Games 4 and 5 to put them just one victory away from their first championship. Series leverage: 57th This is the second-least-close series in the pile, according to our leverage index, but when it's the 1928 Yankees, the size of the thumping is the whole point. It turns Gordon's decision to hold at third -- his coach's decision to hold him, and his decision to obey -- into an all-time what-if. Series leverage: 72nd Top Basemen . Game leverage: 98th. This is not the World Series he's most remembered for! 14. David Schoenfield. Sam Miller », 107. "Cameramen followed the action, focusing on the trajectory of a hit ball or a thrown pass or a shot. 1943: Yankees over Cardinals in five The first World Series to go the full seven games -- but then the final game was a blowout. But midway through the series, it was agreed that to prove anything they must not just win but crush the Padres. • Why the Rays pulled Blake Snell »â€¢ Kershaw repairs his playoff legacy »â€¢ Passan: Game 4 out of a sandlot dream » The 83-win Cardinals are, by that measure, the worst champion ever. But Freese hit it deep to right field, over Nelson Cruz's wobbly pursuit, and off the wall for a game-tying triple. The Buccos looked like they would salted the game away in the bottom of the eighth, rallying for five runs to take a 9-7 lead. Brothers Dizzy and Daffy Dean won all four games for St. Louis. Much of this is subjective, but we did the math and ranked all 39 seven-game World Series. 1962: Yankees over GiantsThe Yankees managed to hold down Willie Mays, who hit just .250 with one RBI. The Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in a mind-blowing, nerve-jangling, heart-stopping mess of a game, a 10-inning acid trip that tested the limits of your sanity, made baseball history and ended 108 years of anxiety. 37. Sure enough, in the ninth inning of Game 5, on a routine 5-3 groundout to third base, Eric Hosmer sprinted home and forced Duda to try to turn the 5-3 groundout into a 5-3-2 double play. The Dodgers' lineup in Game 4 had hit 36 homers in the regular season, six fewer than Jose Canseco alone had hit. Game 3 ended early for the same reason, but the Giants won that one. By average leverage index, it's the fourth-best World Series game, and it's the only one of the top 10 that was a Game 7. Game leverage: 43rd. In one of the wildest games the Fall Classic has ever seen, each team had three innings scoring at least . Now, in his own words, Bobby Thomson tells the complete story of that incredible event with fascinating details only he can provide. The Stanley Cup began in 1893 and is the oldest. For this article, our CBS stats guru John Fisher used WPA as an aggregate stat, to measure drama. Repeatedly, Medwick had to flee for safety, while various authorities pleaded for peace. Buster Olney wrote in his game story that night: "Most of the Yankees seemed at peace. 1 of 25. Less close. 1919: Reds over White Sox in eight games (best of nine) It's a joke. 1928: Yankees over Cardinals in four Ruth's best Yankees clubs were better than any of DiMaggio's -- and maybe better than any other team in history -- but DiMaggio's years were really the team's golden age: He won nine rings in a 13-season career. Mantle caught his cleat on a drain cover, collapsed as if shot, and played in pain the rest of his career. In Game 7, the Giants entered the eighth inning looking like they would prevail. The Royals then loaded the bases on three Tug McGraw walks in the bottom of the ninth, before McGraw escaped and tilted the series in the Phillies' favor. Series leverage: 29th That said, all three series were competitive and well attended, and at the time the population was grateful that baseball had found a way (at the president's request) to keep play going. The latter two are subjective, so we'll just describe them as best we can. A walk, a single, an intentional walk and a sacrifice fly turned the Giants' 2-1 lead into a 3-2 defeat. But Feliz came back and struck out Craig looking, for the second out. 8. Game leverage: 108th. 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