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Tom Glavine's success: built on hard work and determination: veteran pitcher is the seventh winningest left-hander in baseball history and with continued health, hopes to reach 300 career victories.
ON OCTOBER 28, 1995, TOM GLAVINE PITCHED ONE OF THE GREATEST GAMES IN World Series history.
In Game 6 against the Cleveland Indians, a team that had led the American League in batting average and runs scored that season and which had won its Division title by a record 30-game margin over second-place Kansas City, Glavine allowed only one hit in eight scoreless innings pitched. A single by Cleveland's Tony Pena to lead off the sixth inning was all that prevented Glavine from being on the verge of a World Series no-hitter.
"No question, that was the best game I've had in my career," says Glavine ten years later. "I had good stuff, and I had good control. ...
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