There have been some pretty dramatic baseball games this postseason, but none as riveting as the fictional one-game playoff from the classic 1989 film Major League.
It’s tough to top the high drama of the Indians’ showdown with the Yankees and Jake Taylor’s savvy gamesmanship to seal the victory in the bottom of the ninth.
There’s only one way the finish could have been better—if we’d had the 21st century second-screen viewing experience of following along on Twitter.
(We fabricated the tweets below, of course.)
Top of the ninth inning
Manager Lou Brown (James Gammon) brings in Rick Vaughn (Charlie Sheen) to get the final out of the top of the ninth inning.