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The 1997 Cleveland Indians were a powerhouse — Manny Ramirez, Jim Thome, Sandy Alomar, Omar Vizquel — and Tony Fernandez sent them to the World Series with an 11th-inning home run that won the ALCS 1–0. The whole game decided by a single run, from one bat.
Indians — 1997 ALCS · Game 6
The Baltimore Orioles and Cleveland Indians played a pitching duel in Game 6 of the 1997 ALCS — scoreless for ten innings. In the 11th, Tony Fernandez stepped to the plate and hit a home run that cleared the left-field wall. Final: Cleveland 1, Baltimore 0. The Indians were going to the World Series. The scorecard shows eleven innings of shutdown pitching and one decisive swing.
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The 1997 Indians
The mid-1990s Cleveland Indians were one of the best teams in baseball — four consecutive AL Central titles from 1995 to 1999, with a lineup that featured Manny Ramirez, Jim Thome, Sandy Alomar Jr., Omar Vizquel, and Albert Belle. The 1997 team went to the World Series and came within one out of winning it, losing in the 9th inning of Game 7 to the Florida Marlins. The ALCS pennant clincher is the moment that got them there.
Eleven innings, one run
A 1–0 win in 11 innings is baseball at its purest — two teams matching each other pitch for pitch, inning by inning, until someone blinks. The scorecard from Game 6 of the 1997 ALCS shows exactly that: eleven columns of zeros for both teams until Tony Fernandez's name appears in the 11th with a run next to it. Everything before that swing was just table-setting for the moment that sent Cleveland to the World Series.
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- Indians — 1997 ALCS · Game 6 — Tony Fernandez 11th-inning HR clinches the pennant, 1–0
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