The situations may have been a tad different, but the end result was the same.
Travis Ishikawa’s walk-off home run in Game 5 of the NLCS on Thursday night was one of the most dramatic moments in the history of the San Francisco Giants franchise. It sent them to their third World Series in five years and represented the first time since 1951 that the Giants have won a postseason game via the walk-off.
Of course, the last time this happened is still considered one of the most memorable moments in baseball history.
Bobby Thompson of the then New York Giants hit a walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth to send the team to the World Series over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Now fast forward over 60 years, and another unlikely hero in Ishikawa accomplished the same feat for the Giants. While the original call on Fox Sports was pretty awesome, here is his homer played to the original call of Thompson’s homer in 1951.
It might not have been as dramatic as Thompson’s homer, but it will do just fine.
Proving all skeptics wrong, San Francisco will now take on the Kansas City Royals in the World Series starting on Tuesday.
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