Last Call

[Frayed Knot]

Do you wanna see a montage of the final pitch in each of the last 62 World Series?
What a silly question, of course you do! (we just don�t want to see the final pitch of THIS one anytime soon)

Some of the links here overlap. And not surprisingly the quality varies and gets better as you get more recent. That final one contains clips that are a bit longer for each year than the previous.




1952 - 1961 w66ktYvhKko

1962 - 2013 qLiVPpOYlOU

1990 - 2014 fLubBwQAuNw


A breakdown of the WS-ending plays from the covered era:
18 Fly Outs - oddly only 1 to a RFer while 8 went to LF & 9 to CF
13 Ks - not surprisingly, six of those came in the last nine years. Only one was looking and that was Miguel Cabrera 3 years ago (wonder if he gets Beltranian 'bat on the shoulder' abuse?)
12 Ground outs
8 unassisted IF outs - pop ups, line-outs, force play
5 foul outs to a catcher or IF
twice the Series ended on a bunt - and, yes, both times it was a losing rather than a winning play (BIFL)

Six times in this span a Series ended on a �walk-off� hit - 4 singles and 2 HRs. Four of the Six came in a Game 7, the other two in Game 6�s
Only the Joe Carter HR was a come-from-behind win. The game was tied in the other five.
Famously Carter and Bill Mazeroski were the HRs. The four Series-winning singles were by Billy Martin (1953), Gene Larkin (�91), Edgar Renteria (�97) and Luis Gonzalez (2001). Only Martin�s (1st & 2nd) did NOT come with the bases loaded. The Renteria & Gonzalez hits came with 2/outs.

[Guest cooby]

I going to watch this when I get home!

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

The only thing I don't like about this is the excessive amount of Yankee celebration going on.

[Zvon]

Thanks for sharing this. I love last outs. It's a joy to watch these.

[Ceetar]

"Uribe charges, throws. Out! And the White Sox are world champions"

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, maybe it's not enough that Uribe is on the roster. Maybe the Mets have to actually deploy him.

[Diamond Dad]

This is absolutely great!

[Guest cooby]

wow, just hearing Curt Gowdy, etc, takes you back

[Frayed Knot]

Part of the fun with the way this is set up is seeing the same guy, sometimes in back to back years, being on each end of the celebrations.

- That's Tim McCarver catching the final strike and racing out to Bob Gibson in the 1967 WS, but then that's also him again popping out to end the '68 series.
- and Ralph Terry is seen serving up the HR to Mazeroski in '60, then two years later he's finishing up a 4-hit shutout by retiring Willie McCovey on a liner to 2nd (in between he started, though didn't finish, the '61 clincher).
- and of course Mariano Rivera is on the good side of several in a row but then on the wrong side of the 2001 final pitch.

[Ceetar]

did you catch where compared (I think it was) the 81 Dodgers to the 69 mets?

[Frayed Knot]

Ceetar wrote: did you catch where [scully] compared (I think it was) the 81 Dodgers to the 69 mets?

Yeah. He called it 'The Impossible Dream' team, a phrase which was more associated with the '67 Red Sox (who of course ultimately did NOT win) than it was the '69 'Miracle' Mets.

[Frayed Knot]

Also appearing on both sides of the coin, Edgar Renetria gets the WS-winning hit in 1997, then seven years later makes the final out to break the Red Sox long drought.

The full cast of characters from those videos below.
There was a stretch from 1965 - 1971 where seven straight series ended with the winning starter still on the mound. In the 44 years since it's only happened five times and only one of those in the last 27.

YEAR	TEAM	PITCHER	S/R	TEAM	BATTER
1952	YANKEES	BOB KUVAZA	R	DODGERS	PEE WEE REESE
1953	DODGERS	CLEM LABINE	R	YANKEES	BILLY MARTIN
1954	GIANTS	JOHNNY ANTONELLI	R	INDIANS	DALE MITCHELL
1955	DODGERS	JOHNNY PODRES	S	YANKEES	ELSTON HOWARD
1956	YANKEES	JOHNNY KUCKS	R	DODGERS	JACKIE ROBINSON
1957	BRAVES	LEW BURDETTE	S	YANKEES	MOOSE SKOWRON
1958	YANKEES	BOB TURLY	R	BRAVES	RED SCHOENDIENST
1959	DODGERS	LARRY SHERRY	R	WHITE SOX	LUIS APARICIO
1960	YANKEES	RALPH TERRY	R	PIRATES	BILL MAZEROSKI
1961	YANKEES	BUD DALEY	R	REDS	VADA PINSON
1962	YANKEES	RALPH TERRY	S	GIANTS	WILLIE McCOVEY
1963	DODGERS	SANDY KOUFAX	S	YANKEES	HECTOR LOPEZ
1964	CARDINALS	BOB GIBSON	R	YANKEES	ROBBY RICHARDSON
1965	DODGERS	SANDY KOUFAX	S	TWINS	BOB ALLISON
1966	ORIOLES	DAVE McNALLY	S	DODGERS	LOU JOHNSON
1967	CARDINALS	BOB GIBSON	S	RED SOX	GEORGE SCOTT
1968	TIGERS	MICKY LOLICH	S	CARDINALS	TIM McCARVER
1969	METS	JERRY KOOSMAN	S	ORIOLES	DAVEY JOHNSON
1970	ORIOLES	MIKE CUELLAR	S	REDS	PAT CORRALES
1971	PIRATES	STEVE BLASS	S	ORIOLES	MERV RETTENMUND
1972	A�s	ROLLIE FINGERS	R	REDS	PETE ROSE
1973	A�s	DAROLD KNOWLES	R	METS	WAYNE GARRETT
1974	A�s	ROLLIE FINGERS	R	DODGERS	VON JOSHUA
1975	REDS	WILL McENANEY	R	RED SOX	CARL YASTRZEMSKI
1976	REDS	WILL McENANEY	R	YANKEES	ROY WHITE
1977	YANKEES	MIKE TORREZ	S	REDS	LEE LACY
1978	YANKEES	RICH GOSSAGE	R	DODGERS	RON CEY
1979	PIRATES	KENT TEKULVE	R	ORIOLES	PAT KELLY
1980	PHILLIES	TUG McGRAW	R	ROYALS	WILLIE WILSON
1981	DODGERS	STEVE HOWE	R	YANKEES	BOB WATSON
1982	CARDINALS	BRUCE SUTTER	R	CARDINALS	GORMAN THOMAS
1983	ORIOLES	SCOTT McGREGOR	S	PHILLIES	GARRY MADDOX
1984	TIGERS	WILLIE HERNANDEZ	R	PADRES	TONY GWYNN
1985	ROYALS	BRET SABERHAGEN	S	CARDINALS	ANDY VAN SLYKE
1986	METS	JESSE OROSCO	R	RED SOX	MARTY BARRETT
1987	TWINS	JEFF REARDON	R	CARDINALS	WILLIE McGEE
1988	DODGERS	OREL HERSHISER	S	A�s	TONY PHILLIPS
1989	A�s	DENNIS ECKERSLEY	R	GIANTS	BRETT BUTLER
1990	REDS	RANDY MYERS	R	A�s	CARNEY LANSFORD
1991	BRAVES	ALEJANDRO PENA	R	TWINS	GENE LARKIN
1992	BLUE JAYS	MIKE TIMLIN	R	BRAVES	OTIS NIXON
1993	PHILLIES	MITCH WILLIAMS	R	BLUE JAYS	JOE CARTER
1995	BRAVES	MARK WOHLERS	R	INDIANS	CARLOS BAERGA
1996	YANKEES	JOHN WETTELAND	R	BRAVES	MARK LEMKE
1997	INDIANS	CHARLES NAGY	R	MARLINS	EDGAR RENTERIA
1998	YANKEES	MARIANO RIVERA	R	PADRES	MARK SWEENEY
1999	YANKEES	MARIANO RIVERA	R	BRAVES	KEITH LOCKHART
2000	YANKEES	MARIANO RIVERA	R	METS	MIKE PIAZZA
2001	YANKEES	MARIANO RIVERA	R	DIAMONDBACKS	LUIS GONZALEZ
2002	ANGELS	TROY PERCIVAL	R	GIANTS	KENNY LOFTON
2003	MARLINS	JOSH BECKETT	S	YANKEES	JORGE POSADA
2004	RED SOX	KEITH FOULKE	R	MARLINS	EDGAR RENTERIA
2005	WHITE SOX	BOBBY JENKS	R	ASTROS	ORLANDO PALMIERO
2006	CARDINALS	ADAM WAISRIGHT	R	TIGERS	BRANDON INGE
2007	RED SOX	JONATHAN PAPELBON	R	ROCKIES	SETH SMITH
2008	PHILLIES	BRAD LIDGE	R	RAYS	ERIC HINSKE
2009	YANKEES	MARIANO RIVERA	R	PHILLIES	SHANE VICTORINO
2010	GIANTS	BRIAN WILSON	R	RANGERS	NELSON CRUZ
2011	CARDINALS	JASON MOTTE	R	RANGERS	DAVID MURPHY
2012	GIANTS	SERGIO ROMO	R	TIGERS	MIGUEL CABRERA
2013	RED SOX	KOJI UEHARA	R	CARDINALS	MATT CARPENTER
2014	GIANTS	MADISON BUMGARNER	R	ROYALS	SALVATORE PEREZ