Word: nl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Atlanta Braves finally shucked their loser's image, shutting out Pittsburgh in Game 7 of the NL playoffs and setting up the most unlikely World Series ever...
...after NL playoffs MVP Steve Avery and Alejandro Pena shut down Pittsburgh 1-0, Smoltz won his second game of the series with a six-hitter. In reversing their history, the Braves also stopped the Pirates' series of Game 7 successes: Pitts-burgh had played five previous deciding seventh games, and won them...
...That team fed off of them," baseball announcer Marty Brennaman said of the Braves fans, who drew almost as much attention as the team during Atlanta's stretch drive to the NL West title...
When the football season began, few, if any, predicted much from the Princeton Tigers. The Tigers were given about as much chance of winning the Ivy Crown as, say, the Atlanta Braves were of winning the NL West...
...same thing in 1962, when they lost to San Francisco in a best-of-three, and in 1980--the only time an NL division was tied at the end--Houston won a one-game playoff in Los Angeles...