Monday, January 17, 2011

15 Worst Endings Ever To Regular-Season Games

6. Butterfingers. May 18, 1950: Dodgers 9, Cardinals 8.

There are no good ways to lose a game - but dang near all ways are preferable to how St. Louis did it here. They led 8-0 heading into the bottom of the eighth, but somehow blew it.

Worst of all was the game's final three plays. The Cards led 8-5 with the bases loaded with one out in the bottom of the ninth. Then third baseman Tommy Glaviano muffed a grounder - run scores and everyone advanced a base. 8-6.

The next batter also hit it to third. For the second straight play, Glaviano pooches it: everyone advances a base and a run scores. 8-7.

Then - you know what's going to happen, right? Yep, grounder to third, Glaviano blows it. In a change of pace, two runs score. St. Louis lost on back-to-back-to-back errors by the same player. Almost makes Luis Castillo sound good.

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