OT: Best Game 6 Ever

[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.

[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