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Every diehard fan has a candidate for the most overlooked play in postseason history. Is it Snow getting picked off first base in the 2003 NLDS? Or Jack Clark letting Balboni's foul drop in the 1985 World Series? I vote for Mike Davis and his four-pitch, two-out walk in the 1988 World Series. There's no Kirk Gibson/Dennis Eckersley moment if that doesn't happen. Just like in Little League when I bunted Scott to second and then Timmy doubled him in and everyone mobbed them and nobody hugged me, bespectacled Davis gets no love and he should.
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Hrbek pulling Gant off the base in 1991.
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by BullManUGA on Jan 21, 2012 6:07 PM EST reply actions
I still hate Kent Hrbek for that. I also didn’t think it was funny when the Twins made a bobblehead of it a couple of years ago.
note: I was also 7 years old when that game happened and was irreparably harmed by it.
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by AU_Jonesy on Jan 25, 2012 5:25 PM EST up reply actions
Brenly running dellucci for grace in 9tb inning of game 7. If old plowhorse is on the basepaths, there’s no way he is at 2nd in time to spike jeter and it’s a double play.
like a tornado hitting a jelly bean factory on Halloween.
by leemellon on Jan 21, 2012 7:40 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Damn Davis
Speaking as a die-hard A’s fan, you are certainly on the money about the walk Eck gave to Davis. Those great Oakland teams were strongly impacted by former A’s players in their World Series defeats: Davis, Tim Belcher and Jay Howell in ’88; Jose Rijo in ’90.
by Tim E. Space on Jan 22, 2012 12:01 AM EST reply actions
I don't know....
…in EVERY recollection of the Gibson home run, everyone talks about the walk to Davis, so to call it “overlooked” is a stretch.
Wasn’t it someone at BP a couple of weeks ago who said that Jack Morris’ HOF argument essentially rests on the fact that Chuck Knoblauch deked Ron Gant into holding up on that double to left, eventually resulting in Morris’ 1-0 victory?
by jdscott on Jan 22, 2012 1:34 AM EST reply actions
Lonnie Smith
Not Ron Gant.
by GBSimons on Jan 22, 2012 9:03 PM EST up reply actions
Mickey Mantle's dive...
… back to first base in the top of the 9th inning of Game 7, which allowed the tying run to score.
If he doesn’t make it, the game is over and Mazeroski never gets a chance to hit his famous home run.
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by Al Yellon on Jan 22, 2012 10:20 AM EST reply actions
Game 7 in 1960, of course.
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by Al Yellon on Jan 22, 2012 10:20 AM EST up reply actions
Two words:
Bernie Carbo
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by Dale Sams on Jan 22, 2012 4:04 PM EST reply actions
It may not be the most overlooked, but I bet it will be overlooked in time
Josh Hamilton’s extra innings go-ahead home run in Game 6 of the 2011 World Series. If Ron Washington puts Feliz back out there to close it, that’s probably the play of the series and Josh Hamilton is a hero in Texas, even if injuries plague him for the rest of his career and he retires early.
But, things turned out differently. Still, Hamilton’s home run was big and should not be forgotten.
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by Ride the Apocalypse on Jan 23, 2012 6:23 PM EST reply actions
POSEY WAS OUT
Buster Posey being called safe on a steal in game 1 of the 2010 NLDS. Replays showed he was clearly out. If the Braves win that game, they go home up 2-0. No way they don’t pull at least one win out under those circumstances.
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by AU_Jonesy on Jan 25, 2012 5:27 PM EST reply actions
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