OT: Best Game 6 Ever

[almostdone]

After the back and forth battle of Game 6 last night between the Cardinals and Rangers I got to think that it seems alot of times Game 6 in the World Series are the ones that go down in history as the most remembered.

This isn't always the case but if one would think about it Game 6 so many times has had so much emotion and drama they are remembered for decades to come.

So where would last night's game rank among the all time great Game 6? Would it be 2001 D'Back come back against Yanks? Or maybe 1986 Mats and Bo Sox? Or perhaps 1991 Pucket's extra inning HR to win for the Twins over Braves? Or maybe another from farther back in history?

What is the greatest World Series Game 6?

Drew

[terjung]

Hard to top the game where Pudge hit one out in Fenway over the Reds - waving it fair. One of the more memorable moments in baseball history.

As a Reds fan, I will remind everyone that the Reds came back to win Game 7 and take the series.

[xdrx]

What elevates this game, from a drama standpoint, is that the Cards were down to their last strike twice before rallying to tie, then top it off with a walk off HR. I posed the idea last night in another thread, before the walk off, that it might be the most dramatic WS game ever.

In retrospect it gets harder to separate out the terrible quality of play. Fielding was simply bad. Bad base running. Bad decision making. Bad pitching.

Still a fabulously exciting game, but after 7 hours or so I am feeling that it fails a bit because it was just so ugly.

[almostdone]

Also a classic!

So how would you rank them? Put them in the top 5 or even 10 of most exciting and dramatic games even if it were your team that lost the game (I'm pulling for the Rangers).

What other Game 6 hasn't been mentioned that sould be considered?

Drew

[Hot Springs Bathers]

For me I would put the 1975 Fisk game as number one, the Buckner/Wilson game number two and last nights' game as number three even though I am a Cardinal fan.

I do know this, a whole generation of kids are going to remember watching this game with their dad for many, many years to come! This is why we collect what we collect.

Now if Selig would only realize that half the kids in the country missed the game because of the starting time!!!!!!

[bbcard1]

Went to bed with one out in the 9th...dissapointed in me.

[FrankWakefield]

That 2011 Game 6 was a clinic... lots of baseball stuff happening. At times it was sloppy, at times inspired, and it certainly had more than its fair share of excitement.

I still don't understand why pitcher Jackson was announced as a pinch hitter and then replaced with pitcher Lohse... the runners had not moved nor was there a pitching change, the situation remained the same, so why not put in Lohse initially?

I can understand how occasionally a ball will bounce out of a glove, it's frustrating but understandable. Jay's throw that didn't go to second did not hurt the Cardinals, but that's the kind of stuff that really gets me.

What a game.

I do wish MLB would redo the TV contract so that at least ONE of the first 4 games each series would be a day game, so we could get back to the days of transistor radios being carried around, businesses would have the game on, there was a hushed undercurrent of keeping up with the game as everyone was at work or school. We've lost that.

[tedzan]

Although, I am rooting for Nolan Ryan and his Rangers, last nite's game was very exciting......but, not the greatest. In recent years, I'd say Carlton Fisk's HR
in 1975 to win the 6th game was one of the greatest.

But, if you really like "high drama", check-out the 4th game of the 1947 World Series (Yankees vs Dodgers). Bill Bevens was 2-Strikes away from a No-Hitter.
Then Cookie Lavagetto drove the ball against Ebbets Field's 38-foot wall in RF to bring in the winnig Run for the Dodgers.

Better yet......

On October 8th, 1956....I played hooky from school and watched Don Larsen's Perfect game on our TV. It doesn't get much better than that.







TED Z

[tbob]

Originally Posted by xdrx

What elevates this game, from a drama standpoint, is that the Cards were down to their last strike twice before rallying to tie, then top it off with a walk off HR. I posed the idea last night in another thread, before the walk off, that it might be the most dramatic WS game ever.

In retrospect it gets harder to separate out the terrible quality of play. Fielding was simply bad. Bad base running. Bad decision making. Bad pitching.

Still a fabulously exciting game, but after 7 hours or so I am feeling that it fails a bit because it was just so ugly.

It was great tv but a horrible game. Two teams both playing bad but an exciting ending. Not even in the Top 10 in my mind. The 1975 Red Sox win and 1991 Twins win are 1-2 in my book.

[xdrx]

Originally Posted by tbob

It was great tv but a horrible game.

That's a great way to put it.

[chris6net]

I know it wasn,t the W.S. but game 6 of the NLCS in 1986 Mets vs Astros was just as exciting and dramatic and kind of reminded me of last night. I would put the Buckner game right up there also. I know that MLB ranked the top 25 games of all time last year and last nights game would have to be added to the list.

[jalex]

I know this is about game six, and I got home from work last night around the 8th inning and couldn't stop watching, but the best moment I ever witnessed in the World Series was Gibson v. Eckersley, game 1, 1988 World Series. I was 15 years old, not a Dodgers fan, but kind of instinctively hated the Athletics. I'm a Cubs fan since I can remember so every October we have to pick a favorite because we will never be there, so that year I picked the Dodgers mostly because I liked Gibson who was the gamer of all gamers. When he hit that ball out on one leg it sent chills up my spine and I jumped to the ceiling. Still gives me chills thinking about it. As for last night's game, classic. It was sloppy and scrappy and everything I love about baseball. Yeah, it wasn't a 1-0 gem, and I am as old-school as anyone here, but the drama of that game was fantastic. By the way, I live in Texas now and I am rooting for the Ranger and I hate the Cardinals, but the WOW! in the thread title sums it up perfectly. Just brilliant, sloppy, ugly, transcendent baseball, as it ought to be...

Cheers,

Jim

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

That 2011 Game 6 was a clinic... lots of baseball stuff happening. At times it was sloppy, at times inspired, and it certainly had more than its fair share of excitement.

I still don't understand why pitcher Jackson was announced as a pinch hitter and then replaced with pitcher Lohse... the runners had not moved nor was there a pitching change, the situation remained the same, so why not put in Lohse initially?

I can understand how occasionally a ball will bounce out of a glove, it's frustrating but understandable. Jay's throw that didn't go to second did not hurt the Cardinals, but that's the kind of stuff that really gets me.

What a game.

I do wish MLB would redo the TV contract so that at least ONE of the first 4 games each series would be a day game, so we could get back to the days of transistor radios being carried around, businesses would have the game on, there was a hushed undercurrent of keeping up with the game as everyone was at work or school. We've lost that.

Frank, it really showed that these guys are human and succumb to pressure just like the rest of us. Except, of course, Berkman and Freese. They asked Berkman what he was thinking about when he went to bat, and he said "nothing". I wish Feliz and Cruz had been thinking a little more like Berkman.

[Tsaiko]

Before this series started, all I wanted to see was a game seven. Last nights game was a great game by anybody's standards. Error's, weird managing decisions and all. And it gives us a game seven (which will hopefully be just as competitive as game six.

[Scott Garner]

I know that I am late to the game here, but how could you not count the California Angels coming back to beat the vaunted Barry Bonds led 2002 Giants in game 6 of the World Series? Game 7 was anticlimactic compared to the unbelievable win in game 6. My hometown Angels finally won their 1st World Series after waiting 40 years.

The Angels made it to the Series as a wild card underdog, much like the 2011 Cards. It doesn't get much better than that. Who didn't think before this World Series started that Texas would be the eventual winners?