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Article: Baseball's ultimate game: no. 7: nothing compares to the excitement of a League Championship series or World Series title coming to a conclusion in the seventh and final contest.
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- Baseball Digest
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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THE MAGIC NUMBER? It's "7" although not in the dice game of craps but as in Major League Baseball's supreme challenges, Games 7 of those League Championship Series (LCS) and World Series that are extended to the limit.
No. 7 is the Ultimate Game. Nothing in "the national pastime" is bigger than a final pennant-winning or World Series-clinching game.
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Both teams enter Game 7 intensely aware that the cliche "there's no tomorrow" holds equally true for each of them, unlike the earlier contests in which the club leading the Series is assured of survival even after a painfully frustrating defeat.
Yogi Berra is credited with the astute ...