It's happened 15 times, most recently in 2011 when David Freese of the St. Louis Cardinals hit a walk-off homer in Game 6 of the World Series to set up a Game 7 against the Texas Rangers. The Cardinals went on to win the world title.
Only two World Series have ended because of dramatic home runs. In Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit a solo homer in the bottom of the ninth to beat the New York Yankees 10-9. In Game 6 of the 1992 World Series, Joe Carter of the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Philadelphia Phillies 8-6 with a three-run shot in the ninth off reliever Mitch Williams.
The longest game in world series history was the New York Giants vs the Philadelphia Athletics. In game 4 of the world series in 1913, the ball game went 31 innings before ending when the New York Giants hit a 3 run home run to end the ball game. The New York Giants ended up winning the world series 3 to 2( it used to be 5 games in the world series).
Gorman Thomas was struckout by Bruce Sutter to end Game 7 of the 1982 World Series.
Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series against the New York Yankees and Joe Carter of the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 6 of the 1993 World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies.
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A walk off home run occurs when a player on the home team hits a home run and the visitors walk off the field because it is officially the last play of that game. For example, in the 1988 World Series, Kirk Gibson, a player on the Los Angeles Dodgers hit a walk off home run to end that game in the series.
Joe Carter won the 1993 World Series for the Toronto Blue Jays with a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth of Game 6. The walk-off blow, only the second home run to end a World Series (along with Bill Mazeroski's famous 1960 shot), enabled Toronto to defeat the Philadelphia Phillies four games to two. Toronto won the game, 8-6.
No.In Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, Gibson hit a 2 run home run in the bottom of the 9th inning to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a 5-4 victory of the Oakland Athletics.
Game 6 of the 1981 World Series was played on October 28, 1981 at Yankee Stadium. The Dodgers won the game 9-2 to win the Series as Burt Hooton (1-1) beat George Frazier (0-3).
In game 6 of the 1975 World Series, Cincinnati's Pat Darcy gave up Carlton Fisk's walk-off home run in the 12th inning. The Cincinnati Reds would end up defeating the Boston Red Sox in game 7.
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