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...smoldering, the Yankees bore the city's pain and pride to the Bronx and won three games there, snatching two with midnight dramatics. No sentimental ending, though. The Arizona Diamondbacks' spectacular pitching duo of Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson numbed Yankee bats in Phoenix, while a seventh-game, bottom-of-the-ninth rally provided a classic, and deserved, triumph for the home team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best and Worst of 2001: Sport | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...Unshaded is what handicappers call a "deep closer"--a horse that breaks slowly from the gate and sits at the back of the pack for three-quarters of the race, then makes its move over the last 200 yards. When a deep closer wins, it's like a bottom-of-the-ninth home run or a buzzer-beater--everyone knows it can happen, but no one thinks today will be the day. Unshaded rallied around the last turn and slaughtered the field down the stretch, winning by a good 10 lengths. As he pulled away and I stood shouting with...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Lucky Strikes and Ascot Gavottes | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

...took a two-run, bottom-of-the-ninth rally for Harvard to outpunch Boston College, 9-3, and clinch its second straight GBL title...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Batsmen Clinch Share of GBL Championship | 4/25/1985 | See Source »

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