What makes a great championship game?
Some would say the two best teams slugging it out for number one. Those games are fun but often don’t live up to their billing.
I think the best championship games are the ones that aren’t supposed to be close. One team heavily favored and the other team seemingly there by accident. The experts arguing, not over who will win but how much they will win by.
In 1988 the Oakland A’s had two Cy Young candidates as starting pitchers, a dominating closing pitcher and the “Bash Brothers” (aka Mark McGuire and Jose Canseco) smacking the crap out of baseballs. The Dodgers had one great pitcher (Orel Hershiser) and an injured clean-up hitter who could barely walk. They didn’t have a single all-star on the team.
The Dodgers won it in five games.
My favorite memory from that series wasn’t Kirk Gibson’s pinch-hit walk-off home run in game one. It was Mickey Hatcher’s two homers. Hatcher wasn’t on anyone’s roster when the season began but the Dodger’s picked him up after one of their starters got injured. He was only playing because Gibson was too hurt to start.
Hatcher had hit only one home run all year. He hit two in the series. When he hit the first he sprinted around the bases at full speed. Joe Garagiola noted, “He ran in like they thought they were going to take it off the scoreboard!
Game 7 is for all the marbles and starts in ten minutes.
The Crawdad Hole 
Picked off!
Rangers 1-0
Rangers 2-0
Base hit
Caught stealing
walk
RBI double
RBI double
strike out
ground out
Rangers 2-0
tie game!
Engraving Freese’s name on MVP trophy now. This has been a great series. Go Cards!
Ground out
fly out
walk
walk
full count
2 RBI double
Fly out at the wall
Tie game after one
Base hit
fielder’s choice
bunt
walk
ground out
tie game
Base hit
double play
strike out
tied 2-2 after 2
This game, well, and the whole series, would cause me serious medical trauma if I really liked either team. As it is, he’s a hell of a lot of fun. Go…. well, I think cards. Yea. I think.
My liver almost didn’t make it through game six
ground out
strike out
hit by pitch
fly out
still tied
Cards homer!
Fly out
home run
ground out
line out
Cards lead 3-2
Strike out
ground out
strike out
Cards 3-2
Ground out
base hit
base hit
ground out, runners at 2nd and 3rd
fly out
Cards 3-2
Jeebus
He’s not playing but Elvis is a Ranger
Base hit
bunt
pop foul
strike out
Cards 3-2
it is not the PHILLIES so it really does not count,
I would like to see the Rangers win so that backtrack would have to invite the team that Bush used be part owner of to the white house and congratulate them.
Crazy talk. You don’t sacrifice STL, not even for the humiliation of Obama. Sorry, but that’s how we roll out here in the midwest. ;p
LOL!
congratulations on your team winning
TY. 🙂
My head exploded. I can’t take it….
I just came to.
Who won?
Glad I didn’t watch. In other news, Herman Cain is going to dance, make love, and fix snacks for the Highlander marathon. Because everyone needs toucan stubs.
Highlander marathon, you say?
As in, Adrian Paul??!!
Where?
When?
I’m all for the Highlander Marathon, especially if he’s making the snacks.
So you like haggis?