By now we've probably all heard about the blown call in the top of the 11th on Joe Mauer's fly ball down the left field line. If you haven't, Mauer hit a fly that landed about a foot fair and bounced into the seats. Instead of getting a ground-rule double, umpire Phil Cuzzi ruled it foul. The Twins would eventually load the bases in the inning, but somehow David Robertson was able to escape the inning without letting the Twins on the board. Then Mark Teixeira, a switch-hitter batting righty, led off the bottom half of the inning with a walk-off homer just over the wall in left.Well, on October 9th, in 1996, exactly 13 years ago, the infamous Jeffrey Maier play took place. You remember, the home run Jeter hit in game 1 of the 1996 ALCS, a ball that should have been ruled fan interference but instead was ruled a HR by umpire Richie Garcia.But that's not all. That game in 1996 was also won by the Yankees in walk-off fashion in the bottom of the 11th, when Bernie William...
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