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(1987) Minnesota 4, St. Louis 3

The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball. The World Series is played between the American League and National League champions and the Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff.

The Twins were just 29-52 on the road during the regular season, but for them the first two and last two World Series games was planned for Minnesota's Metrodome. Twins fans had to cheer in Game 1, as their team romped over the Cardinals with 10-1. Left fielder, Dan Gladden knocked in five runs, and Minnesota ace Frank Viola tossed 8 innings of 5 hit ball. Game 2 was closer, but not close enough for the Cardinals as the Twins scored 6 times in the fourth on their way to an 8-4 decision. In St. Louis for Game 3, the Twins got six shutout innings from unheralded Les Straker. Cardinal starter John Tudor was as good, and after six innings the Twins' lead with 1-0.

Juan Berenguer substituted Straker in the 7^th and the Cards grabbed a 3-1 lead and that's how it came to an end. St. Louis evened the Series with 7-2 triumph in Game 4, the Cards tallying six in the 4th inning. The series was back in Minnesota for Game 6, but early on it seemed like the Cardinals didn't care. With Willie McGee's single in the fifth, St. Louis took a 5-2 lead. Then the Twins exploded with four runs in the fifth and four more in the sixth. The latter four coming on Kent Hrbek's grand slam and they wound up winning easily with 11-5, forcing a decisive Game 7. The Cardinals took a 2-0 lead in the second and that was it, as Viola allowed only two more hits through the eighth inning. In the mean time, the Twins scored single runs in four different frames on their way to a 4-2, Series.

The Twins thus became the first team to win the World Series by winning four games at home, and their regular season winning percentage of 0.525 was the lowest ever for a World Series Champion.

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