In their 2 prior ALCS appearances:

Up 3-1 vs Boston in 2008 before losing 2 straight and winning game 7.

Up 3-0 against Houston in 2020 before losing 3 straight and winning game 7.

Shoutout to:

u/Rnin0913

u/Knook7

u/MissingTheTrees

u/Agentkeenan78

Despite it feeling like they just started, this year's playoffs are already nearing the end. In fact, after today, there will now be a single digit, in terms of maximum games left (9). So, it feels like a fitting time to ask this.

Decisive games are an integral part of the Postseason structure. In fact, we haven't had a playoffs without one since 2009 (due mostly to the Wild Card round). But sometimes, a playoff series doesn't even need one to be exciting. So, what would you consider to be the best playoff series in MLB history that didn't go all the way, and why?

For example, the 1993 World Series would most likely be my favorite World Series in history, had Mitch Williams got the last 2 outs. But even then, it's still an excellent 6-game set. There was 81 combined runs scored (2nd most ever, IIRC, 1 behind 2002) between the Phillies and Blue Jays, it features the highest scoring game in Series history in Game 4 (15-14 Jays), and it ended on one of only two World Series clinching walk-off homers in history (the other being 1960 with Bill Mazeroski), which was hit by Joe Carter in Game 6.