The Golden State Valkyries, in just their second season of existence won a home game seven vs the Atlanta Dream to win the WNBA title, which concluded three nights after the Milwaukee Brewers won a first title, theirs in the 56th completed Milwaukee season.
Gabby Williams, pictured above playing for France, in her first season with the Valkyries, was the game seven star, hitting for 30 points, 28 scored in the second half.
Williams was named final round MVP.
A similar team A/Team B game configuration, though in a 2-3-2, not 2-2-1-1-1 format manifested in the 1960, 1964 and 2014–the latter with another S.F. team, the Giants winning a third crown in 5 seasons with no subsequent ones.
Twice a game 5 World Series winner.
The recent World Series ended and clips of the last play from 1943-2026, some with great audio, became available.
Among the most compelling, certainly to me, was Jerry Koosman, an excellent pitcher, getting future Mets title winning manager Dave Johnson to fly out to LF Cleon Jones, clinching the ’69 crown for the 100 win(s) “Miracle” Mets.
Won #’s 2 and 5 ’69 W.S. and #3 ’73 NLCS and #5 ’73 W.S.
Curt Gowdy, a superb TV announcer made the call and added “look at this scene,” as fans poured onto the field.
After a great Baltimore Orioles team, who came back to title led by the great Brooks Robinson, the next season, won game 1 (Don Buford, his name called in the second “Godfather” film as a U.S.C. back, homering leading off vs 25 game winner Tom Seaver), it was Mr. Koosman who pitched 8 and two thirds/one run yielded innings and getting the (2-1) win, that sent the Series to Shea Stadium even. (Dr.) Ron Taylor got the save.
Subsequently, though yielding homers to opposing pitcher Dave McNally and the great Frank Robinson, giving “Balti” a (3-0) lead, “Koos” allowed no more.
Home runs by Donn Clendenon and Al Weis tied it and two Mets runs sans a home run, B8, set the stage for the seminal, not to be forgotten Johnson fly to “Clee.”
View it below as Koosman, who won 222 big league games and had a (4-0) post-season mark, gets the last out, coincidentally hit by relatively recently deceased Johnson, who 17 years later, guided the Mets to their only other title.
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Tonight, in the second possibility of it manifesting, a 7th and deciding WNBA final round game will be played, commencing at roughly 8 P.M. Eastern Time (Clocks are set back tonight).
It will be contested between the 4th seed Atlanta Dream, who forced it with a 12:30 P.M. home win 2 days ago, and the second seed, Golden State Valkyries with the latter getting the home game.
Two’s are operative as the Valkyries are in just their second season.
The Dream are in their nineteenth season and are (0-3) in previous WNBA final rounds.
San Francisco teams have the edge in previous ‘offs clashes vs Atlanta teams.
Somewhat incredibly, the World Series has been clinched by the road team eleven times in the last 12 possibilities and for the last four seasons.
Only Houston’s second crown, clinched at home in 2022, is an exception.
Their first was at L.A. vs the Dodgers in 2017. The Dodgers, who won the 2020 Covid affected title in San Diego, batting last, won their consecutive 2024 and 2025 crowns on the road. They have 9 titles and only in ’63 when Hector Lopez (he caught Vada Pinson’s “loop” to clinch the ’61 title for a great Yankees’ team) grounded out Maury Wills to Bill Skowron (“The Moose” (Skowron) made the last out, the other time a Milwaukee team “titled,” as Ed Mathews fielded his smash and stepped on third for the W.S. ending force play), did they do so, at home.
The top ranked/103 win(s) Milwaukee Brewers, won (4-1) at Tampa Bay/St. Petersberg, vs the Rays (now (0-3) in W.S. and just (4-12) in such tilts) last night, to take their first crown, four games to one.
After dissipating a 12th inning one run lead in #4, “Milw” scored runs T2 and T4 before adding two in the 5th to win and finish with a stellar (11-2) post-season mark, months after both the NBA Knicks and NHL Hurricanes had excellent (16-3) ‘offs records (I will always cite Ron Perranoski as (16-3) in ’63), to win their league’s title.
2026 to be, N.L. Cy Young Award winner, Jacob Misiorowski notched his second win of the series, hurling 1 hit/5 and two thirds shutout innings, before being lifted due to leg cramps.
Cooper Pratt, nearly the hero the night before, when he “solo’d” T12, led the “Brew Crew’s” #5 offense with a run scored and two batted in, while making it 6 straight hits, before flying out in a virtually meaningless T9, at bat.
It was catcher William Contreras, brother of catcher Willson Contreras, who flew to the tilt from Hawaii and was a title winner with the Cubs in 2016 when they ended a 108 year(s) title drought, who was named World Series MVP, as the Brewers in their 56th completed season, won their first World Series.
Cooper Pratt, who also “tuned” Brice Turang who had a lead double, with the go ahead to stay/winning/last run in #2–B7, is pictured above.
I will have a plethora of notes in the upcoming days.
The 103 wins, top seed, Milwaukee Brewers in their 56th completed Milwaukee season (no ’94 season and things end at 56, as Hemingway called him, “The great DiMaggio” ‘s streak to name one) are on the precipice of their first title.
After winning another tight game, which included more Aaron (let’s not forget Henry) Ashby relief excellence, by a (5-4) score at home, Saturday past in #2, “Milw” leading (2-0) had an 8 run 5th and cruised (10-1) over and at Tampa Bay (Rays), to take a commanding (3-0) World Series lead.
Milwaukee an astounding (10-1) in these ‘offs after the (10-1) win, will seek the title clincher in tonight’s game 4.
There is ‘mucho’ talk of the Brew Crew’s 8 run 5th inning (all runs scored after 2 were out and a correct replay review set up Brice Turang’s 2 run single off the glove of Taylor Walls), however, it was Milw (not Norweigan) “wood” again (2-0), with Christian Yelich, as he did B1 in #1 tuning in Mr. Jackson Chourio with the game’s first run and Robert Gasser yielding but one hit in 6 innings pitched, which included 4 with the game either tied or reasonably close at (2-0) Brews.
Oh do the Brewers, a comeback team in most of their post-season wins, have the “wood”/lead, (Norwegian or otherwise) as no team has ever dissipated a (3-0) World Series lead.
Likely Series MVP Chourio had 4 hits, while both Turang and William Contreras, superb behind the dish, had three.
Brice Turang pictured at first. Which Cards player is holding at first?
The ’76 Reds swept both the best of 5 ’76 NLCS and World Series. The Yankees at (11-1) in ’99 have the best record in years with at three tier ‘offs, which commenced in ’95. Milwaukee can match that (11-1) if they “title” tonight in #4.
Oh, the memories of great games, especially playoff games involving the then and now Los Angeles Rams, certainly those involving the superb running back Lawrence McCutcheon, who died last week, among the most prominent.
Slot 2, the later Saturday game played in the late afternoon, at least Eastern time (’70-2000), produced some classic finishes (’71, ’74, ’76 among them).
Additionally, there were some great individual performances in one sided games, a truly outstanding one turned in by Mr. McCutcheon (Lawrence his name, as the great Pat Summerall once told us, Larry is his brother), in the later Saturday Rams’ rout of the then St. Louis–{the Rams played there and were ’99 season title winners] Cardinals, as part of the 1975 playoffs.
McCutcheon “toted the pigskin” for a then playoffs record, 202 yards in that tilt. A nice memory!
In Super Bowl XIV, (1979 season), McCutcheon threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to Ron Smith, giving the Rams a 19–17 lead over the Pittsburgh Steelers. However, the Rams went on to lose the game, 31–19.
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Lawrence McCutcheon, pictured in a 1968 photo.
Milwaukee Braves lost the ’57 opener but won the series, while they went up (2-0) and (3-1) in ’58, however, lost the ’57 redux vs the Yankees, in 7 games.
See Game 2 “Div” Series vs San Diego regarding Chourio
The Milwaukee Brewers won a replay affected (3-2) home tilt in last night’s 2026 World Series opening game.
Jackson Chourio, pictured above, who has been very effective in post-season, tuned what proved to be the deciding run and scored the World Series first run, B1 when Milwaukee took a (2-0) lead vs Tampa Bay starter Nick Martinez, a lead they never relinquished as reliever Tyler Megill completed a “high wire act,” fanning Jonny DeLuca to end game 1.
The Brewers are (2-0) in W.S. openers, the Rays fall to (0-3).
All 3 previous World Series involving the Brewers and Rays stood at (1-1) after two games.
The great Paul Molitor, pictured above, went 5 for 5 as the Brewers “opened” the Cardinals in St. Louis in game 1 of the 1982 World Series.
Tonight the 122nd World Series matching National and American League teams commencing in Milwaukee, a city that has first housed a National (Braves) then an American (the Brewers) and now the American League Brewers.
Milwaukee ranked first in regular season wins, their opponent the Tampa Bay Rays were third (the two time champion Dodgers swept out by the Brewers were second).
First game World Series winners went (24-6) from ’85-2015, however, were just (6-4) the last ten seasons, the former a “nice” even 80%, the latter 60.
All three Milwaukee World Series (’57 Yankees opener–Braves title, ’58 the opposite and ’82 Brewers opener/Cards title) manifested in the game 1 losing team taking the crown.
The game 1 winner won both in the two previous Tampa Bay World Series appearances, as the Dodgers took the very much shortened season 2020 crown preceded by the Phils winning both game 1 of and the 2008 title.
Milwaukee Braves (1954-1965)
Dane Iorg Helped ’82 Cards win then had the biggest hit as his Royals 7’d them in 1985.
