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You guys, game 7 of the 2001 World Series is tied at 1 in the 7th on MLBN. I feel like if NY can get Soriano to the plate in the 8th in a tie game, he will put them ahead and then Mo will of course close it out. Four straight titles!
 

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Hahaha, Tim McCarver tells us at this point NY had had the lead for just 7 1/2 of the 66 innings of the series and were six outs away somehow. This genuinely might have the best postseason run I ever saw from NY, three ridiculous opponents in a row.
 

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Man, grandparents will be telling their grandkids about Soriano's game-winning HR in the eighth inning of game 7 off Schilling. No one will ever forget this forever memorable moment.
 

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Mariano gets through the 8th, just 3 outs to go. They're about to be only the third team ever to win four in a row, the first two of course different Yankee teams. It's starting to feel like they may never lose another postseason series. This will be their 12th series win in a row!!
 

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It's not going to matter, but pretty incredible for Randy Johnson to come in and get four outs on zero days rest after going seven innings to win game six. Too bad one run against Rivera is like ten runs against anyone else...
 

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Grace loops a single to center to lead off the ninth, just amping up the inevitable heartbreak for all seven D'Backs fans.
 

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Oh no, my cable went out!!! WTF!!! I guess I'll watch Mo finish it on replay later, looking forward to going for #5 in 2002.
 

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Strange that it's so quiet outside, usually people go crazy here when a NY team wins a title. I guess everyone's cable went out.
 

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You guys, game 7 of the 2001 World Series is tied at 1 in the 7th on MLBN. I feel like if NY can get Soriano to the plate in the 8th in a tie game, he will put them ahead and then Mo will of course close it out. Four straight titles!
the great youtuber john quinn put up the 1999 world Series yesterday
 

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Brutal day for Al Leiter today on MLBN, they showed both of:

1997 WS game 3, FLA/CLE, Leiter's line was 4.2 6 7 4 6 3. He left down 7-3, but FLA came back to win 14-11.

1999 NLCS game 6, NYM/ATL. ATL won the first three games but the Mets had come back with two tight wins, the first five games were all low-scoring nailbiters with ATL outscoring NYM just 14-12. Leiter was determined to singlehandedly end the pitching-dominant series, this is how he started the bottom of the first:

HBP
BB
(double steal, E2, 1-0 ATL)
HBP
1B (2-0 ATL)
FC, no out
1B (4-0 ATL)

That was it for Al, no outs in an eventual 0 2 5 5 1 0 line in a game the Mets came back in multiple times but eventually lost 10-9 in 11 to end their season.

So Al's day on TV today: 4.2 8 12 9 7 3, 17 baserunners (including the 2 HBPs) in 4.2 IP does not seem ideal.
 

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Brutal day for Al Leiter today on MLBN, they showed both of:

1997 WS game 3, FLA/CLE, Leiter's line was 4.2 6 7 4 6 3. He left down 7-3, but FLA came back to win 14-11.

1999 NLCS game 6, NYM/ATL. ATL won the first three games but the Mets had come back with two tight wins, the first five games were all low-scoring nailbiters with ATL outscoring NYM just 14-12. Leiter was determined to singlehandedly end the pitching-dominant series, this is how he started the bottom of the first:

HBP
BB
(double steal, E2, 1-0 ATL)
HBP
1B (2-0 ATL)
FC, no out
1B (4-0 ATL)

That was it for Al, no outs in an eventual 0 2 5 5 1 0 line in a game the Mets came back in multiple times but eventually lost 10-9 in 11 to end their season.

So Al's day on TV today: 4.2 8 12 9 7 3, 17 baserunners (including the 2 HBPs) in 4.2 IP does not seem ideal.
That is technically true, but the Mets should have scored 3 more runs if Ventura just rounded the bases In G5. Not that it matters of course.
 

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I normally never watch old sporting events (or sports documentaries), but of course these are unique times and I've been enjoying some of the 1996-2001 Yankees games that MLBN has been showing non-stop the last few days. The one on now is game 3 of the 2001 ALDS, featuring a rarely discussed play involving Derek Jeter and Jeremy Giambi.
 

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That flip play game started one of the great two week runs in MLB history:

Game 3 ALDS NY 1-0
Game 4 ALDS NY 9-2
Game 5 ALDS NY 5-3

Game 1 ALCS NY 4-2
Game 2 ALCS NY 3-2
Game 3 ALCS SEA 14-3
Game 4 ALCS NY 3-1
Game 5 ALCS NY 12-2

Game 1 WS ARI 9-1
Game 2 WS ARI 4-0
Game 3 WS NY 2-1
Game 4 WS NY 4-3 (10)
Game 5 WS NY 3-2 (12)

NY went 10-3 against OAK (63-18 in the second half including 29-4 to close the season, best second half in MLB history), SEA (116-46 in the regular season) and ARI (the best two man postseason SP combo in history in Schilling/Johnson, who started 5 of the 7 WS games). They lost the two ALDS games just before that and of course the two WS games after this but all in all a more memorable and satisfying postseason run than a bunch of their WS-winning teams.
 

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Hahaha, Bob Costas just pointed out that Schilling/Johnson had 665 Ks combined that regular season and another 103 in the postseason, amazing.
 

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The Yankees hit .183 in the World Series. All those aging veterans caught up to them. Justice, Brosius and Knoblauch were cooked by this point. They were completely shut down by Arizona’s pitching and were fortunate to even be playing a Game 7. If BK Kim had done his job, Yankees lose in five games.
 

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Yep, NY only scored 14 runs in 7 games and still were just 2 outs away from stealing the series.
 

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Was 2001 Game 7 the worst defeat you’ve experienced as a fan? I’ve got a little family in Connecticut and remember talking smack back in 2004 after the comeback, and they would always respond “2001 was worse.”
 

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I actually barely cared, to be quite honest. They had won three straight titles and eleven straight postseason series at that point, and they should have been knocked out in the ALDS that year and lost the WS well before that, as you said. Either way the season was ending that inning (well, unless it went to extras), so yeah, it didn't bother me at all. Same with 2004, BOS was better than NY in 2003 and they were better than them in 2004 after their trade deadline moves, the most surprising thing to me was that NY got up 3-0 in that series, not that BOS ended up winning it.

This was probably the most painful Yankee loss I can remember, because NY hadn't won it all since 1978.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8SBJzOEcyU
 

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The 2016 Cubs/Indians WS is on ESPN radio now and it was quite weird when the color guy first chimed in and I heard the voice of...

Aaron Boone.