If this was a series-deciding game it may be a couple of slots higher, but as it was, it was probably the best non-definitive World Series game I’ve seen.ĭown go the three-time defending champion Yankees to an expansion team in its fourth season. Either way, Mookie Wilson’s grounder, Bill Buckner’s blunder and Ray Knight scoring to tie the series at 3 made everyone who was watching it stand up and wonder what in the hell just happened. Or the Schiraldi game if you want to think about it more deeply. A game in which the Phillies led 14-9 entering the top of the eighth. What is also forgotten is that these two teams played a whale of a Game 4 too, with the Jays beating the Phillies 15-14. That, and not just the fact of the homer, helped make Joe Carter’s game-winning blast all the more memorable. No need to credit me.Įveryone remembers “Touch ’em all, Joe!” but what is forgotten is that the Phillies had every reason to pack it in, down 5-1 entering the seventh inning, when they rallied for five runs and the lead.
2016 WORLD SERIES GAME 7 EVEN CROWD FREE
Feel free to use those phrases if you want. It was so improbable a year for the Dodgers and then, against the heavily-favored A’s, the impossible happened.
It’s been 28 years and I still cannot believe what I just saw. It may not have had moment-by-moment competitive drama like some of these other entries, but it was the best individual performance I’ve ever seen in a World Series Game, with Bumgarner coming in for a five-inning save only a couple of days after dominating the Royals with a compete game shutout. It was the best one I saw in person, as I was covering it in Kansas City. Anyway, the game itself was not a crisp one - five errors, a boat load of walks, lots of lead changes and that infamous Nelson Cruz misplay of the David Freese ball - but it was definitely an exercise in high drama. And no, it did not feature alcohol or chemicals of any kind.
This might have been higher for a lot of people, but personal circumstances that I may or may not write about one day made it a surreal experience of sorts that made it something of an out-of-body experience that is best left for another time. Jose Mesa’s blown save and Tony Fernandez’s key error sent it to extra innings and Edgar Renteria’s single with the bases loaded gave the Marlins an improbable World Series win. Given that you know last night’s game is coming later, you know that the Indians get three losses on this list. You’d put your own team’s win in at number 10 if you were making this list, right? This October I was treated to my team winning the only title it has so far won in my lifetime. A year prior we endured (hopefully) the only October of our lifetime without a World Series. Tom Glavine’s eight innings of one-hit, shutout ball and David Justice’s homer, mere days after idiot Braves fans questioned his worth and nerve. Sorry, it was my team doin’ it here, so it was elevated for me. I’ll give it a day or so to sink in before I etch this list in stone - and I’ll explain why I think it was the best when I get down to the number one slot - but in the meantime, here’s my take on the ten best World Series games I’ve ever seen:Īll of these are subjective to some extent, but I’m gonna sneak a super fan-centric objective won in here at number 10. I make the caveat in the headline because you may be of a certain age and you may have, say, been at the Bill Mazeroski game in 1960, at Don Larsen’s perfect game in 1956 or at Game 6 of the 1975 World Series when Carlton Fisk hit his famous homer. If that’s the case, hey, you may have a different idea of what the best World Series game you ever saw happened to be.įor those of us with no real living memory of baseball before the 1980s, however - the 40ish and under crowd - Gmay very well be the best we’ve ever seen.