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2021 Game of the Year: Nominees and ballot

It wasn’t the best of Diamondbacks seasons, to put it mildly. But one of the joys of baseball is, your team is still almost guaranteed to win fifty times a year, a figure which would be cause for delight in any other sport. [Let’s gloss over the 110 losses, for the purpose of this article!] And so, here are the candidates nominated in the thread earlier this week. There seemed an adequate consensus to consider the two x 7-inning games against the Braves as a single entity. After all, if each contest only “counted” as a partial game for no-hitter purposes, who are we to argue with Rob Manfred?