In the Colorado Rockies ' unbelievable 21 - 1 run to clinch a World Series slip , arguably the biggest win was their October 1 triumph over the San Diego Padres , a tiebreaker gameto enter the postseason . It was only the twelfth tiebreaker game inbaseball history , an telling slating of games that includes Bucky Dent ’s illustrious Winslow Homer and a gem by Randy Johnson . But none is more famous than secret plan 3 of the 1951 three - game playoff ( back when tiebreaker were a three - game serial publication ) , which ended in a Bobby Thompson walk - off home plate running . baseball game ’s version of " The Shot get wind " ˜Round the World" came after an awful 37 - 7 run by the Giants to bind the Brooklyn Dodgers . The tiebreaker get with the first secret plan to be disperse across the total country and include ( ominously ) a Bobby Thompson home run . That ’s how it ended , too , when Thompson launched a three - footrace guess to give the Giants a spot in the postseason . The iconic baseball game moment , immortalize by Russ Hodges ' exuberant broadcast , has been defile a bit in recent years with allegement that it was aid by signaling - stealing .
We all remember the2000 Election , the tiebreaker to end all tiebreaker . It was month - long battle of recount , hanging Chadic , butterfly stroke balloting and imaginativeness of democracy . And it all end in the Supreme Court , with a narrow 5 - 4 vote giving the election to George Bush . The election switch the face of the White House for the next seven class ( who has n’t had a imagination of the bizarro USA where Al Gore is president ? ) and also spark all kinds of election reform . It also bestow the idea of how to resolve an even 50 - 50 election to the forefront of the nation . Here are some highlights of the world ’s election tiebreaker :
Arkansas is the king of overtime in college football game . Since the NCAA put their overtime link - breaking method in berth in 1996 , the Razorbacks are6 - 1 in extra time games , include the three longest overtime academic session . The longest was in 2003 , when they take Kentucky toseven overtimes . After the seven OT ’s ( Arkansas ' second 7OT game ) , the terminal score was a then - record 71 - 63 . The whole secret plan took just under five hour and featured , oddly enough , two blocked punts returned for touchdowns .
