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Good to know.

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The real villain in that ATL-NYY game was starter Denny Neagle, who had a big lead and couldn't get through 6 innings.

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I have never heard of the October MLB playoffs referred to as the "tournament" ....

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Goose Gossage and Dan Quisenberry and, of course, Steve "Don't Blow It" Howe had their moments, too. Mark Wohlers gave up a homer to Jim Leyritz in '96 that cost the Braves back-to-back series titles. But it was a starter, Ralph Terry, who gave up the most famous ninth-inning run perhaps in Series history.

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