Last week, the Top 7 took a look at the best moment s in the history of the Division Series. If that list were to be re-done this week, there probably wouldn’t have been a moment in the top 30 from this year, and that may be generous. One sweep, three four game series, and several days off, and now it’s time for the LCS's. If anyone in the country had Phillies/Dodgers and Red Sox/Rays back in Spring Training, they are probably gajillionaires right now. With the match ups, you would think that you have better series than in the first round—The Sox and Rays hate each other, and with the Phils and Dodgers you have two of the most pleasurably negative fan bases in sports. It shouldn't be bad. This week’s Top 7 looks at the best League Championship Series moments from this decade.


7. Jim Edmonds
There have been some great LCSes during this decade, but perhaps none were better than the 2004 Cardinals/Astros NLCS. It featured a seven game series, a walk-off homer in a 0-0 game, Albert Pujols hitting .500 and Carlos Beltran hitting close to it, Brad Lidge throwing some of the nastiest pitches ever, and Edmonds having one of the most memorable back-to-back games of all-time. He hit a walk-off homer in Game 6 in the 12th inning, then made a ridiculous catch with his back nearly to the field to save two runs early in Game 7.

6. Kenny Lofton
Some guys are seemingly in the playoffs every single year. Kenny Lofton is the poster boy Not only that, but he’s one of those players who seems to be on base every single time and drives you crazy. He sure did that to Cards fans in 2002, and that was before he smacked the series-winning hit in Game 5 that sent the Giants to the World Series.

5. Two plays from Game 7, 2006 NLCS, Mets/Cardinals
Sometimes there is a question on robbed home runs as to whether they would have actually been home runs or not. In Endy Chavez’s case, he literally brought a home run back into the park. Just doing that would have been an unbelievable play, but he also held on to make the catch. Had the Mets gone on to win the game, that play would have made this list’s top three. But later in the game, Yadier Molina hit a go-ahead two-run homer that gave the Cards the lead that they held onto in a nail-biting bottom of the ninth.

4. JD Drew
Drew had driven three fan bases—the Cardinals, Braves, and Dodgers—completely insane in his career, and he was in the midst of driving his fourth to near violence last season. He came up with the bases loaded against the Indians and the crowd braced for one of his patented strikeouts. Incredibly, he nailed a grand slam, and it was evident that there was no way the Red Sox were losing the series.

3. Albert Pujols
This week’s entry is not just the obligatory Pujols mention, but one of the most clutch home runs ever hit in the history of baseball. It’s not often that the season is literally on the line, and you deliver in the biggest possible way. With Reggie Sanders on deck, anything less than a home run in that situation and the Cardinals probably lose the game. And to make the home run off of Lidge even more legendary, it traveled around 900 feet. Due to this home run, Busch Stadium was able to host one more game, and adults were able to get teary-eyed over the closing of a baseball stadium.

2.Aaron Boone and the year after
While the game is best known to Red Sox fans because Grady Little did not pull Pedro Martinez from the game after the 7th inning, which led to them being sitting ducks until the 11th inning and Boone ended the misery by dropping a massive bomb off of Tim Wakefield to win the game. It would end up being the Sox’s final painful suffering, as they got to come back from 3-0 against the Yanks the following year and have had a Yanks-like run ever since.

1.Mike Mordecai
Steve Bartman has been mentioned so many times that it’s time to pick something else from Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS’s 8th inning besides his interference and Alex Gonzalez’s error. How about Mike Mordecai? He is the one that hit the three-run double that completely slammed the door on any chance of a Cub comeback, making it a 7-run inning. Juan Pierre then singled to make it an 8-runner, but Mordecai’s double was the final nail.