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Article: World Series final plays.
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- The National Pastime
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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As Edgar Renteria bounced the, final out of the 2004 World Series to Bostons Keith Foulke, the thought immediately popped into my mind that Renteria had also ended the 1997 World Series with a winning single to center field against Cleveland's Charles Nagy. Wondering if that had ever happened before, I began to do a little research.
2004 marked the one hundredth playing of the World Series. With the help of Retrosheet I compiled a table of the final plays for each of those one hundred World Series. Not unexpectedly, the final play was generally an out recorded by the winning team (89 times). However, as I looked further I found an interesting pattern of pairs ...