10 Most Devastating Losses in MLB History

What are some more of the other most devastating losses in MLB history?

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MLB playoff baseball is the best. Teams play 162 regular season games. After that, there is zero room for error.

Your championship hopes come down to one strike. One Error. One hit. One play. And unfortunately for some teams, their dreams ended in one of the most gut-wrenching plays imaginable.

I’m DeQwan Young, and today we present the 10 most devastating losses in MLB history.

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Writer: Alex Hoegler

[LeighMet]

It was the 1976 ALCS where Chambliss hit the HR. A Mets fan is telling you this.

[UHOH_]

As a Giants fan, you should of put when we blew a 5-0 lead in game 6 of the 02 World Series

[jonnyk]

1992 NLCS for the Pirates could be on this list

[richbarr]

The 1992 Pirates losing the NLCS to the Braves on the last play of Game 7 should be on here. It wrecked the Bucs, probably forever despite a few Wild Cards a few years ago.

[nbabackcourtmedia]

Top ten players or teams that failed in the playoffs

[wolfpack]

Um the royals and the Yankees are both in the American League they can’t play in the World Series together and the reds were in the the World Series vs the Yankees and the reds won it was not the royals vs Yankees

[Guapo_gremlin]

I would’ve thought the 2014 game 7 loss of the royals would be on here.

[jpsncds]

As an Atlanta Braves fan I was cheering as it happened but what about the 1992 NLCS? Pirates give up 3 runs in bottom of 9th in Game 7? If I were a Pirates fans I know that would have been devastating

[sportsball]

Game 4 of the 2015 ALDS where the Astros blew a 6-2 lead at home
Indians blowing a 2-0 series lead in the 2017 ALDS
Rangers losing the ALDS to the Blue Jays in back-to-back years

[nathaniellevesque]

I thought the 2004 Yankees and the 2011 Rangers would be in the top 2. Yet only one of them made the top 5.

[jaydirt]

You missed a HUGE one. Blue Monday anybody?

[joe.osullivan]

Bartman was a devastating loss? As a White Sox fan, I thought it was just the cubs being the cubs. I also found it pretty great, rather than devastating.

[rydawg]

It’s because they left Mark Prior in the game. He had over 100 pitches at that point

[tonyduell]

Wtf, please never do baseball lists again. You obviously have no idea what you're saying.

[JABDchannel]

the Redsox beating the 0-3 deficit vs NYY should have been No 1 or 2 good video

[matthewgliatto]

0:44 You meant ALCS, not World Series. You had me really confused for a minute until I finally figured out that you must’ve misspoken and it was really the ALCS.

[AlonsoRules]

top 10 forgotten championship teams (2005 White Sox etc.)

[adrianselbst]

Great point about the Indians having not won since 1997. I was there that game 7 and it truly was like a kid beating a legend with 2 outs to go. While 1986 and 2011 might be more heartbreaking due to being one strike away (and let’s remember the rangers have NEVER won a title compounding that game 6 choke), I appreciate number 1 being 1997. Having said that here are some omissions (that certainly beat Chambliss’ walkoff in terms of heartbreaking ending, after all the royals rallied to tie it 6-6) that come to mind:

1978: Game 163 Bucky Dent homerun and final out after 14.5 game yankee season comeback (you wanna talk devastating?)

1986 ALCS game 5- Henderson’s homerun one strike away against Angels

1992 NLCS Game 7- Cabrera’s walkoff 2-run single 1 out away

2001- You could choose games 4 and 5 as perhaps two of the most devastating losses in W.S. history, but of course game 7 (which my yankee fandom, the 3 previous titles, the title since, the 3 games in NY, and Gonzo’s steroids aside.. should still be on this list: that was truly heartbreaking, circumstances aside

2002: Giants blow 5-run lead with 8 outs to go, extending their San Fran drought to 48 years

2014 AL WC game- Oakland blows it again and again

2016 W.S. Game 7- obvious, but yes that rajai homerun off Chapman to tie it not coming to fruition (especially in
Cleveland) must have been the most devastating letdown imaginable.

[seolferrosa]

I’d also add the 2016 Cleveland Indians. They led the World Series 3-1, yet the Cubs pulled two wins out of their hats. Even with a botched play by the Cubs that allowed two runs, and Rajai Davis’ game-tying home run off an exhausted Aroldis Chapman, they went down in their own ballpark, which sounded more like Wrigley Field with all the Cubs fans singing “Go Cubs Go”.

[kaisinnott]

As a mariners fan, I was cheering when this happened, but Yankees blowing 2-0 lead in ALDS