re: Best teams to get swept in any sport??

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The 1954 Indians went 111-43, the best record in the history of the AL, won the pennant by 8 games, and were swept by the NY Giants in the series.

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This is the standard one that people pick but if you look at the two rosters there actually wasn’t 14 games’ difference between those squads. Plus Al Lopez of the Indians sold his soul to the devil in a way for that win record because he was so focused on burying Stengel and the Yankees he kept the hammer down to the very last game even though they were eight games ahead and didn’t give his players any kind of a breather and they went into the Series tired and beaten up while the Giants were at full strength.

It wasn’t a sweep but the 2001 Mariners who won 116 games getting beaten in five by the Yankees (who won 21 fewer games) in the ALCS has to be mentioned. Back story for that is the Mariners needed five games to beat the 91-win Indians in the division series … they actually got pounded 17-2 in one game … and their pitching just got ruined.