Word: inning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this week. Canada's team, the Toronto Blue Jays, won the first true World Series in a six-act thriller with America's team, the Atlanta Braves, that proved again that baseball is a game of inches and ifs. Base runners ran backward (costing Atlanta a crucial big inning); umps went myopic (depriving the Jays of the first Series triple play in 72 years). The Braves' batters mostly smacked screamers into grateful Toronto gloves. Atlanta embarrassed no Jays hurler except Jack Morris, the $10 million mercenary who lost both his starts...
...other first-year Jays, pitcher David Cone and ageless slugger Dave Winfield, brought Toronto a 11-inning 4-3 victory in the finale. And while Atlanta's pennant flew at half-staff, Canada's flag was proudly unfurled right side up. Nice guys finish first...
With one mighty swing, Dave Winfield exorcized his demons and wrought revenge upon his foremost tormentor, slugging an 11th-inning, two-run double Saturday night to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to their first World Series title...
Even sweeter, for the Atlanta Braves, was a seventh-game, ninth-inning / single by anonymous Francisco Cabrera, the answer to many a bar bet in the next century. Sid Bream chugged toward home plate and slid in under the catcher's tag. In a melodramatic rally that matched Bobby Thomson's "shot heard around the world" for the New York Giants in 1951, the Braves edged the Pittsburgh Pirates to send the team with baseball's best recent record home heartbroken for a third straight year...
...wants to slip back in for the ninth inning because his fans miss him. Perot resembles a middle-aged father leaving his wife and four kids because he's not happy--then returning a couple months later expecting to pick up the pieces...