Catcher Ernie Lombardi dropped the throw, then " squatted on the ground, apparently brooding over the futility of it all," as DiMaggio himself ran home and scored for a Little League homer. When the Reds outfielder misplayed it, a second run raced for home. The winning run in Game 4 came on Joe DiMaggio's extra-inning single. 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.
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But for the individual Giants, the years from 2010 to 2014 contained sprawling arcs, full of twists. History flattens narratives, so we remember this as just part of the Giants' mini-dynasty. Game 3 took 4 hours and 19 minutes for no good reason except "the Red Sox." It's still the longest nine-inning game in Series history.Ī repeat of the not-very-close 1936 World Series matchup. Also, a deadly earthquake split it into two parts, and when play resumed (against the objections of some civic leaders) we were still terrified the ground would shake. It's that they managed to end only two innings in the series even tied. Thirty years ago, the Loma Prieta quake shook the Series - and the world. Pity the Reds, who might well have won anyway but never got the satisfaction of knowing. Rigged by eight White Sox players who had been paid to lose, and the games weren't even close. 1919: Reds over White Sox in eight games (best of nine) MediaNews Group/The Mercury News/Getty Imagesġ16. But the actual games of the 1989 World Series were a snoozefest. The 17 straight-up classics The ones that were over before they began We'll always remember the Battle of the Bay for the Loma Prieta earthquake. The latter two are subjective, so we'll just describe them as best we can. We'll list each World Series' rank in the first two categories. How historically significant it was, and how satisfying that history is. The 1988 World Series wasn't particularly close, but it produces instant recall for one inning alone.Ĥ. A seven-game series will rate much better than a sweep.ģ. It's similar to game leverage, except it includes how close the series itself is.
Championship leverage index, at The Baseball Gauge. A game that's close for nine innings and won by a walk-off in the 10th will rate much better than one in which a team jumps ahead early and runs away with it.Ģ.
Game leverage index, at Baseball-Reference, which measures how close the game is on each play and how likely the next play is to shift each team's chances of winning. To rank every Fall Classic ever, we leaned on four primary factors:ġ. Was it a great one? In our ranking of all 116 World Series, it's 30th. Was the Dodgers' six-game victory over the Tampa Bay Rays a good series? It was at least a good series.
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