In all 3 World Series' the Twins were in, the series MVP was the winning Pitcher of game 7. 1965: Sandy Koufax 1987: Frank Viola 1991: Jack Morris All made the opposing teams offense look woeful.
Jay Nicks Viola's ERA was a little high because of the early exit in Game 4 with Lawless's home run though. Koufax also had a loss in '65 but that was largely based on unearned runs. Morris was the only one to go undefeated at 2-0, as he ended up with a no decision in Game 4 but still pitched great in that game, 6 innings, 1 run allowed before being pinch hit for and then the bullpen blew his lead. His ERA in that series was 1.17!
Add 1924, 1925, and 1933 when the Minnesota Twins were originally the original Washington Senators. The Washington Senators relocated to the Twin Cities in 1961 as the current Minnesota Twins in exchange for the expansion Washington Senators that later became the current Texas Rangers franchise.
I can't be the only one who finds Al Michaels' "Forget the decibel meter, get the Richter scale!" comment at the 1:05 mark to be a Funny Aneurysm Moment considering that two years later in San Francisco, he was at the heart and center of the earthquake prior to the start of a World Series game.
😂 never thought of that, but that is quite classic. I also love how those kids-at-heart announcers went to the trouble of measuring the decibels of planes taking off at the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport when they returned to MN before Game 6, and compared it to the noise in the Dome, which Michaels labeled as “more than a 727.” (Which, if you know about airplanes, that’s not an accidental or generic categorization synonymous with merely any airplane. The 727 was well known to be the loudest plane there was in terms of engine noise on takeoff!)
You aren't kidding! I was at Game 6, and after Kent's grand slam, I remember sitting down and covering my ears! I've never seen a crowd in Minnesota (or anywhere else for that matter) like that since. It really was intense
Yeah it’s kind of odd. These umpires all had excellent reputations and I believe there were no missed calls at all the first six games, at least no glaring ones-and then in Game 7 there were FOUR. Three by Lee Weyer at 1st base and one by Dave Phillips at the plate. (Again odd in that these two were considered among the best umpires in their respective leagues-highly respected with sterling reputations.) But at least two of them likely made no difference in the score and the other two cancelled each other out. The missed “out” call on Baylor at the plate cost the Twins a run which they were then “gifted” back on the Gagne play when he was called “safe” and then scored the tying run on Puckett’s double.
The reasons the Twins won this series 1. Home field 2. They piped in crowd noise to that toilet called the Metrodome 3. Pendleton and Clark were hurt for St. Louis
Injuries are a part of the game Twins destroyed best team in baseball Detroit including 2 in Detroit and all domed stadiums do that. Or your a sore loser! Busch Stadium Astro turf the same?
Phillip Weber they didn't have to pipe in any noise, the fans did it all themselves and in a dome the noise has no place to go. Now, what was admitted to later was that a maintenance man at the dome did acknowledge that he (supposedly acting on his own with no instruction from the team) reversed the direction of the blowing fans when the Twins batted, hoping it would help balls carry farther that they hit. Although that being said, three of the four games at the dome were not close, the one that was had no home runs, and the homers they hit in the other games were all pretty convincing shots that likely would have gone out regardless of blowing fans in any direction.
Al Michaels got it all wrong. The Minnesota Twins won the World Series for the second time in their history since 1924 when they were the original Washington Senators. The original Washington Senators relocated to the Twin Cities in 1961 as the Minnesota Twins in exchange for the expansion Washington Senators which they later became the current Texas Rangers franchise. D.C. would not another Big League baseball team until the relocation of the Montreal Expos, becoming the current Washington Nationals franchise, and won the 2019 World Series.
