Last but not least, Mitch Williams gave up a series-clinching gopher ball to Toronto's Joe Carter in the bottom of the ninth inning in game six of the 1993 World Series. The Wild Thing had saved a career-high 43 games for Philadelphia that year, and was one of the premier closers in the league to that point in his career. In Philadelphia's series victory over Atlanta in the NLCS, Williams recorded two wins and two saves. In his lone All-Star season in 1989, he had 36 saves and a 2.76 ERA for the Cubs, and finished the year 10th in MVP voting and ninth for the Cy Young Award. But he was never the same pitcher after giving up Carter's home run, posting ERAs of 7.65, 6.75 and 10.80 in three seasons after that series, and retired after the 1997 season.
Frank Robinson
28 August 2008
Willie McCovey was just five for 33, for a .154 mark, Roberto Clemente hit .138 (4-29) off him, and Frank Robinson was just six for 28, for a .214 batting average.
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8 June 2008
baseball hasn't had a Triple Crown winner since 1967, when Carl Yastrzemski in 1967, the year after Frank Robinson did the trick. There have been eleven horses to win the Derby, Preakness and Belmont since 1919, an impressive feat, as these are races of three different lengths in a five-week period, and the distances are typically more than the horse has ever run.
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