Travis Ishikawa joined select company on Thursday night with his three-run, walk-off home run off Michael Wacha in Game 5 of the NLCS, lifting the San Francisco Giants over the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-3, for San Francisco's third trip to the World Series in five years.
Watch Travis Ishikawa’s walk-off HR send Giants to World Series
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Ishikawa drove in 18 runs in 62 games in the regular season, but had 7 RBI in the five-game NLCS. He is also just the fourth person to hit a walk-off home run to win a League Championship Series.
Ishikawa is 4th ever to hit walk-off HR to send team to #WorldSeries (Chambliss 1976, Boone 2003, Ordonez 2006).
— MLB Public Relations (@MLB_PR) October 17, 2014
Of course, Joe Buck’s call mimicked Russ Hodges’ legendary THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT call after Bobby Thomson’s famous Shot Heard ‘Round The World that gave the then-New York Giants the 1951 NL Pennant.
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