He talks about panic overtaking a pitcher , as it did for Darling in a 1984 game in which he got pasted by the Cubs ; he also addresses the rush of pitching in a World Series game and -- in a treat for baseball fans -- goes over the extra innings in perhaps the most famous college baseball game ever , a 1981 extra-inning contest that Darling 's Yale Bulldogs lost to Frank Viola 's St. John 's Redmen , 1-0 .