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Recap Series 71-80
The wheel of misfortune that only this game can provide showed its face again in the past 10 series and 2 more world champion clubs have been eliminated from the Field of Dreams. That makes four teams now out of 80 series that were champions and now are history.
The 2006 Cardinals had the worst record of any champion and they were indeed exposed by the 1944 Boston Braves who had nothing to lose and won in six. It was even worse for the 1940 Reds who were swept by the 2004 Pirates but were able to get some redemption when the 1939 club of the same name played with a chip on their shoulder and swept the 1936 Dodgers and Casey Stengel. Tony LaRussa did manage to win a series with his 1996 Cardinals, as a hard hitting Gary Gaeti was too much for the 1977 Family Pirates team.
The 1965 Braves and Hank Aaron took care of the 1917 Senators and Walter Johnson. Johnson would continue his losing ways as a manager when his favored 1930 Senators club lost to the 2007 Orioles in seven games. John Jaha hit four home runs in two games as the 1999 Athletics put more misery on a 2020 Detroit Tiger team. Phil Ortega pitched a game seven gem for Gil Hodges as the 1967 Senators defeated the 2019 Pirates. The 1953 Tigers pulled an upset over the 1994 Dodgers and the 1919 Pirates threw three shutouts and held the the 2001 Brewers at bay.
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