I am not a baseball fan in the least (and the end of this MLB season is not going to change that) but what occurred is statistically mind boggling:
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/bill-buckner-strikes-again/?hp

In a nutshell: "you get a combined probability of about one chance in 278 million of all these events coming together"

I was trying to figure out what another 1 in 278 million probable event is, just for comparison (flipping a coing and it landing heads up every time for 556 million attempts? Holy chappati wrapped in a bharotha!) but then again these sort of odds are impossible to get my head around.