The truth about the 1985 World Series - aka quit whining, Cardinal fan.

Time for Dr. Doggity's History lesson. This has come up for 29 years, and now that both the Royals and Cardinals are one series away from a reprise of 1985, it's bound to go crazy again. It has already started. 
Game 6, 1985 World Series. Don Denkinger was the first base umpire. Dana DeMuth was second base umpire (anyone remember him?)
The blown call no one remembers...In the fourth inning of the scoreless game, the Royals' Frank White appeared to have stolen second base, but was ruled out in a questionable call, confirmed as the wrong call by later review of the tape. The batter, Pat Sheridan, hit a single to right field two pitches later. This would have likely given the Royals a 1–0 lead had White been called safe. Instead, Leibrandt and Cox traded scoreless innings until the eighth, when Brian Harper singled home Terry Pendleton to give the Cardinals the 1–0 lead. By all rights, it should have been 1-1. Might have changed KC's strategy in the 9th, right? So shut up.

Then there was another call - the first out of the top of the 9th. The next at bat, Jack Clark dropped a routine pop-up. Darrell Porter -the Cardinal's catcher then allowed a passed ball and failed to make a tag on Jim Sundberg. Denkinger didn't do any of that. Jorge Orta - the guy Denkinger called safe was later forced out at 3rd, and never even scored. So he was a non-factor in the inning. And so, thanks almost exclusively to Cardinal errors, not Denkenger’s call, we were tied up 3 games to 3. 
The Cards still had a chance to win it in game 7. What did they do? Lost 11-0 and had their pitcher and manager ejected. Bottom line - the Denkinger call may have been the wrong call, but it didn't cost the Cards the game, let alone the series. Any more than the DeMuth call changed the game. Period. 
You can be mad about a call. I get mad about calls all the time. Sometimes they impact games. But one call almost never actually costs a game, if a team has the toughness and heart to shake it off and make plays, as the Royals did after the horrible call against Frank White in the fourth inning. 

And certainly one call never costs a team TWO games. The Royals won, and Don Denkinger did not “give” them one game, let alone the series. Period. 
History. 
It matters. 

Cards fans - be happy with your 19 pennants and 11 World Series wins, and recognize our ONE championship - won fair and square. Hope to see you in a couple of weeks.