The Greatest World Series Game 7: 1-0 Twins in 10 innings Despite what happened this year down in Arizona, the final game of the 1991 World Series between the Minnesota Twins and the Atlanta Braves still has to qualify as the greatest Game 7 ever in the Fall Classic. The 1991 Series was one of the greatest ever played (1972 was not bad either: six games by one run with the home team winning only twice). Both the Twins and the Braves had finished last the year before and despite the great story of a pair of "worst to first" teams squaring off in the Series, the fact the two teams were from such small markets was presumed to mean no one would watch. But after Minnesota won the first two games at home and the Braves proceeded to sweep the three in Atlanta, the viewing audience was growing. The last two games in Minnesota both went into extra innings. After Kirby Puckett won Game 6 with a home run in the bottom of the 12, the stage was set for the final game.
John Smoltz pitched for the Braves and Jack Morris made his third start for the Twins. Why was this the greatest Game 7 ever? Easy question to answer: at the end of nine innings the game was still scoreless and it was pretty clear that Manager Tom Kelly was going to pitch Morris until his arm fell off. What happened in the 10th inning and the names of Dan Gladden and Gene Larkin are still taught to small school children throughout the state of Minnesota, where this tape is extremely popular and may soon represent all we will have to remember the Twins. Along with our official Homer Hankies.