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The 1991 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1991 season. The 88th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Minnesota Twins (95–67) and the National League (NL) champion Atlanta Braves (94–68).
Oct 27, 1991 · MINNEAPOLIS — The Atlanta Braves were so devastated after Saturday’s 4-3 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Saturday night, catcher Greg Olson said he was getting rid of his lucky T-shirt that he wears...
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Oct 28, 1991 · The longest Game 7 with no score in the history of the World Series. And there it ended. Dan Gladden hit a broken-bat double, and there was a sacrifice bunt and two intentional walks, and...
- ‘I Honestly Can’T Even Explain Why It Happened’
- ‘You Felt A Little Bad That This Had to End’
- ‘Come on and Sit Down, Have A Drink’
- ‘What’s Gonna Happen Tonight?’
- A Special Legacy
“And now we’re seeing something that we rarely see in a World Series: Terry Pendleton, leading a group of Atlanta Braves out to congratulate the Minnesota Twins.” — Braves radio announcer Pete Van Wieren, moments after Game 7 ended Terry Pendleton had been close before, having played in two previous seven-game World Series as a member of the Cardin...
“Why don’t we play all winter and make it a best of 90?” — MLB commissioner Fay Vincent to Braves owner Ted Turner during the 1991 World Series, as reported by The Sporting News, Nov. 4, 1991 The compulsion to connect with the opponent wasn’t limited to Pendleton and the Braves. Twins manager Tom Kelly felt the pull too. The emotions are hard to de...
“If this Game 7 is not the greatest finale in Series history, it is close. If this Series is not the greatest in history, then it is close. At the least, it can be remembered in a single word: excruciating. Joy for Minnesota. Pain for Atlanta. Tension for us all.” — John Rawlings, The Sporting News, Nov. 4, 1991 After pitching a 10-inning shutout i...
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a hitter shake hands with a catcher before the first pitch — in any game,” CBS analyst Tim McCarver before the first pitch of Game 7 It might be reasonable to assume that all the talk of respect and cutting trophies in half after Game 7 was fueled mostly by the game itself, just nice things professional athletes say af...
“Minnesota and Atlanta, last-place teams a season ago, had been transformed, as if by divine touch, into champions who gave us a World Series so good that it can be called the best ever.” — Dave Kindred, The Sporting News, Nov. 4, 1991 Ask the men who played in the 1991 World Series to describe their feelings 30 years later, and they’ll offer varia...
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On Oct. 27, 1991, the Atlanta Braves’ John Smoltz and the Minnesota Twins’ Jack Morris took the mound at the Metrodome in Minneapolis for Game 7 of the 1991 World Series. The match-up would prove to be one of the greatest pitcher’s duels in World Series history.
Jul 26, 2018 · Though only one run crossed home plate at the Metrodome on Oct. 27, 1991, the contest was teeming with dramatic moments and volatile momentum swings.
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Sep 28, 2022 · That's how it ended, with Rick Aguilera gaining his second save in as many nights. The Series shifted to Atlanta for Game 3, and the Braves led 4-1 after six frames. But the Twins battled back, and tied the game in the eighth on another two-run homer off the bat of Chili Davis.
