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Home > Baseball > World Series History > (1995 ) Atlanta 4, Cleveland 2
(1995 ) Atlanta 4, Cleveland 2
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 1995 World Series matches were played between the rival teams of Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians.
Both the teams revealed a good winning streak in their previous seasons. Owing to this, the series was believed to be an absolute thriller. However, the Atlanta Braves team proved to be more dominating over the Cleveland Indians and won the match by an impressive 4-2 mark. The Braves had returned to the World Series after just a two year absence, while the Indians reached their first Fall Classic since 1954.
Facing Greg Maddux, the National League's best pitcher, the Indians could only gather two hits and a pair of unjustified runs and that was almost enough. But the Braves manufactured two runs in the seventh, and Maddux captured a 3-2 victory. Atlanta also captured the second game 2 with a 4-3 mark owing to the six innings of three-hit pitching from Tom Glavine and Javy Lopez's two home runs in the sixth. However, the fourth game was a recurrence of the second game, as this time Braves’ left-hander Steve Avery contributed six frames of three-hit ball. David Justice tossed in a two-run single, and Atlanta took a commanding series lead with their 5-3 victory.
Loosing the fifth game, the Indians fared better against Maddux than they had in the opener. Albert Belle got things started with a two-run homer in the first, and after the Braves tied things with single runs in the fourth and fifth, Cleveland scored twice more in the sixth. Jim Thome made it 5-2 with a solo home sun in the eighth, which proved important when the Braves scored twice in the ninth to make the final score as 5-4. In the sixth game, Braves right fielder Justice broke a scoreless tie with a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth. That was all the Braves would score, and it was all they would need, as Tom Glavine allowed just one hit in eight innings, and Mark Wohlers pitched a perfect ninth to seal Atlanta's Championship.
The World Series game of 1995 was thrilling and a true entertainer for the audience. It marked new records with Atlanta Braves winning the game with a fair margin.
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