OT: Best Game 6 Ever

[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.

[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?

[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