re: Sports moments/heartbreaks you can't get over

once upon a time, the Phillies had a 9 game lead with maybe 12 games to go.

they lost their starting shortstop to injury, lost their starting 2nd baseman to injury, lost their starting 1st baseman to injury, who was hitting .297 and was a very good fielder, and bought a big hitting old man from Pittsburgh, who hit a couple of HR's before he too was injured.

They lost the pennant to St Louis by 1 game.

They had two very good pitchers. They ran into Bob Gibson twice in that losing streak.
In the first encounter, which I heard on the radio in my suite at Murray, along with my suite mates, and my room mate, all Cardinal fans, Gibson struck out Johnny Callison and Dick Allen with the bases loaded, TWICE (4 strike outs of the two best players, with the bases loaded) in the same 2-1 victory.