The World Series
“by winning the 2004 World Series.
There was still one inning left, however, and the Yankees used their turn at bat to full advantage. The first batters singled.
Roger Maris popped a foul ball for the first out, but the threat of two ninners on base still remained. Mickey Mantle made good on the threat by singling one runner home. They needed only one more to tie things up. They got it in classic fashion.
Yogi Berra was up. He drove the ball down the first-base line. Mantle, at first, started for second just as first baseman Rocky Nelson gloved the ball and stepped on the bag. Berra was out — and Mantle would have been, too, if Nelson had managed to tag him before he returned to first base. But he didn't. Mantle dove for the bag and slid under Nelson's glove a split second before the tag.
And meanwhile, the runner on third had taken off for home. When he scored, the game was tied at 9 apiece.
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