[Fyrestorm3]

Game 4 of the first round of the playoffs in my fictional league (in a 5-game series). My team, the Stampede, was an expansion team in only their third year in the league. We were a bunch of upstart rookies and wannabe stars, and we were facing off against the team with the best record in the league, called the Alliance. No one in their right mind would have picked us to win, and indeed, we had gotten our behinds handed to us in the first two games of the series. We took Game 3 with a gritty win to push the series to 2-1, but things looked bleak right off the bat in Game 4.

My starter failed to retire a single batter in the first inning, allowing 4 runs and leaving a man on base when I pulled him and put in the guy who was supposed to start in Game 5. He promptly let up a 2-run homer. So we were down 6-0 before getting a single out, and it felt quite clear that we were losing the series. But we started chipping away. Ultimately, the score became 8-7 in the bottom of the 7th, and we had a runner on 3rd with two outs. He scored on a wild pitch to improbably tie the game.

In the top of the ninth, the Alliance scored again, making it 9-8. We got two men on base in the bottom of the ninth, but then my batter fouled off three straight bunt attempts for a strikeout. With my number 8 hitter due up, and the pitcher's spot after him, I had kind of accepted defeat at that point. But lo and behold, my rookie number 8 hitter, who was only in the lineup due to injury, tore into the first pitch he saw from their closer, and smoked it into the stands to force a Game 5.

We ultimately won that series with an 11-inning victory in Game 5, and then went on to lose in the next round, but that walk-off in Game 4 will forever be etched into my memory. David absolutely slew Goliath after being down 2-0 in the series, and it kicked off one of the best rivalries I have ever witnessed in OOTP (the two teams would meet in the playoffs three out of the next four years).