With the Los Angeles Dodgers down to their final out, trailing 3-2 in the 10th inning, Game 1 of the World Series looked as if it belonged to the New York Yankees.
Then, the impossible happened.
Freddie Freeman sent a four-seam fastball 412 feet away and into baseball lore for eternity.
The pitcher on the wrong end of the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history, Nestor Cortes, still seems to rightfully carry some resentment from that infamously unfortunate moment of his career.
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Cortes was promptly traded this offseason for two-time All-Star Devin Williams, three days after his birthday.