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The Padres wound up winning the game 6–3 to reach the World Series for the first time ever. The Cubs had won the first 2 games of the series (1984 marked the last time that the League Championship Series was a best-of-five series) over the Padres. Incidentally, Durham went 3-for-20 in the NLCS, garnering two of his three hits in the final two ...
Muskellunge are found in oligotrophic and mesotrophic lakes and large rivers from northern Michigan, northern Wisconsin, and northern Minnesota through the Great Lakes region, Chautauqua Lake in western New York, north into Canada, throughout most of the St Lawrence River drainage, and northward throughout the upper Mississippi valley, although the species also extends as far south as ...
The current International Game Fish Association (IGFA) all-tackle world record tiger muskie is a 23.21-kilogram (51 lb 3 oz) specimen that was caught on July 16, 1919, by John Knobla at Lac Vieux-Desert, Michigan, while the current IGFA all-tackle length world record, pending as of August 18, 2024, is a 115-centimetre (45 in) individual caught ...
Four teams have never played a game seven: Chicago White Sox, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies. While the White Sox did play a game seven in the 1919 World Series, it was in a best-of nine series. Teams that have never played a game seven in a best-of-seven series are excluded. Names of franchises before their relocation are ...
Game seven. Chris Carpenter pitches to Mike Napoli in the 2nd inning of Game 7 of the 2011 World Series. A game seven is the final game of a best-of-seven series. This game can occur in the postseasons for Major League Baseball (MLB) (League Championship Series and World Series), the National Basketball Association (NBA) (all rounds of the NBA ...
The Twins blew out the Cardinals in Game 6, 11–5, to force a seventh game. Viola pitched eight solid innings in Game 7 as the Twins came back to win by a 4–2 score, securing the title. With the Twins winning Game 7 in the regulation nine innings, the 1987 World Series was the first in which no games needed the bottom of the ninth inning.
The Angels made MLB history in Game 7 as John Lackey became the first rookie pitcher to win a World Series Game 7 since 1909. Due to the Angels claiming the championship in Game 7, the Game 6 collapse entered baseball lore as part of the Curse of Coogan's Bluff superstition used to explain the Giants' championship drought after the 1954 World ...
The 1971 World Series was the championship round of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1971 season and featured the first night game in its history. The 68th edition of the Fall Classic was a best-of-seven playoff between the defending World Series and American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles and the National League (NL) champion Pittsburgh Pirates.