20 years ago today: Kim: Young, Ill...

Photo credit should read JEFF HAYNES/AFP via Getty ImagesTo be honest, this is the first game of the 2001 World Series that I remember, not least because of it being Halloween. We had the game on in the living-room, and at that point the TV was right by the front door. Virtually every trick or treater that came past, the parents would ask, “What’s the score?” and we’d give them an update. For much of the game, it was a pitcher’s duel, with Curt Schilling and future Diamondback Orlando Hernandez matching each other into the seventh inning. Then Arizona pulled ahead in the eighth, and turned to young closer Byung-Hyun Kim in the bottom of the ninth. It did not go well, as Tino Martinez smacked a game-tying homer with the Yankees down to their final out.

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