20 years ago today: Deja blew, all over again...

Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images This is the only sporting event in my life which has ever provoked an actual physical feeling of nausea. When - and stop me if you’ve heard this before - Byung-Hyun Kim allowed a game-tying two-run home-run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, I genuinely felt sick. I remember the sensation to this day; it was as if I’d gone from solid ground, to being tossed around on the world’s worst roller-coaster in the blink of an eye, the earth wrenched out from underneath my feet. It was such an utter repeat of the previous night’s disaster, giving the Yankees a 3-2 lead in the series. The D-backs had come into New York 2-0 up. They left, needing to win not one but two elimination games.

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