The better performer isn't always the winner.
Detroit Tigers' left-hander Mickey Lolich was the 1968 World Series MVP, but his performance was at least equaled by the defending World Champion Cardinals' Bob Gibson.
Mickey Lolich's Great World Series
Lolich was great. He started, completed, and won three games, allowing only 5 runs and 6 walks, while striking out 21, in 27 innings.
After winning the fifth game, Lolich started the seventh game on two days' rest against Bob Gibson, who had been victorious in his last seven World Series decisions.
Gibson held the visiting Tigers to an infield single through the first seven innings, and retired the first two Tigers in the eighth inning, before Norm Cash lined a single to right field.
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