Source: http://ift.tt/1m2nf7J --- Tuesday, October 31, 2017
A brief overview of the limited history of Halloween Baseball Tuesday night, the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers will play the fifth World Series game in history on Halloween Night. Justin Verlander will meet Rich Hill on the field of glorious battle with eternity (or, just the winter...tomato, tomahto) in the Pit of Despair on the line. Dilly dilly. Call it the HalloWorld Series for one night, if you want. Maybe the Samhain Slam. But no matter what you call it, the last twenty years have taught us that Baseball played on All Hallow’s Eve usually has just a little more magic to it than many other World Series games, even in the same series. In what has already been one of the craziest, most memorable World Series matchups of all time, “a little more magic” could be setting Game 6 up to be another All Time Great Baseball game. Grab your seats and hold on tight, here is a look at the previous four HalloWorld Series games. October 31 st , 2001: Mr. November Is Born The New York Yankees , representing a city reeling after the terrorist attacks of September 11 th , became the first Baseball team in history to win a Major League Baseball game on Halloween in the 2001 World Series when Tino Martinez hit a home run in the Bronx against Byung-Hyun Kim of the Arizona Diamondbacks to tie the game and send it to extra innings. In the bottom of the tenth inning, Derek Jeter would hit a walk off home run against Kim that traveled just ...
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