Close but no CiGar

The Carp-enator flirted with one last night, but evidently, to throw a World Series complete-game shutout in the new millennium, you have to be facing the Yankees.

The only two blank jobs since 2000 came at the expense of the Bombers - Randy Johnson for the D-Backs in game two of the 2001 Series (3 hits, 11 k's) and of course Josh Beckett in game 6 of the 2003 Series (5 hits, 9 k's), one of the great Series closeouts ever.

Both Beckett and Johnson won the Series MVP awards, although RJ shared it with mound-mate Curt Schilling. Which brings me to a painful side note - prior to Johnson, Schilling was the author of the last CGS in a World Series, but it wasn't as a D-Back. 1993, motherfucking game five. Bow your heads in silence...