Now That Was Some Good Baseball!
Who else was watching tonight?
Remember a few weeks ago when we had that amazing night -- heck, amazing 10 minutes -- of baseball to end the regular season? Well, the various division and championship series were pretty good, too. And tonight was Game 6 of the World Series. The Rangers had played amazing baseball to lead the series three games to two.
Tonight's game went back and forth through nine innings but with a three-run 7th, it looked like the Cardinals were done for. Sure enough, the Rangers were one strike away from winning their first-ever World Series title, but the Cardinals rallied in the 9th and 10th inning and eventually won in the 11th to force Game 7.
Here's the Associated Press:
ST. LOUIS -- David Freese homered to lead off the bottom of the 11th inning, and the St. Louis Cardinals forced the World Series to a Game 7 by rallying from two-run deficits against the Texas Rangers in the 9th and 10th on Thursday night.
Freese hit a two-run triple just over a leaping Nelson Cruz to tie the score 7-7 in the ninth inning against Neftali Feliz. Then, after Josh Hamilton put Texas ahead with a two-run homer in the 10th off Jason Motte, Ryan Theriot hit an RBI groundout in the bottom half and Lance Berkman tied it 9-9 with a single.
Game 7 is on Friday night. Go Cardinals!
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KC Mulville: Drama isn't about perfection. There was no perfection, but plenty of drama.
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But let's remember, Game Six isn't Game Seven. In 1975, Carlton Fisk won the dramatic game - but Cincinnati won the Series anyway. There's still another game, and both teams are running on fumes and an exhausted bullpen. Anything is possible. · Oct 28 at 6:21am
Well said. So what do you think. Will the Cardinals start Carpenter or keep him in for strong relief?
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Matthew, you didn't! You didn't! How could you! The first rule of baseball is that you never ever leave a game early, right?
I understand your defense -- it's a good one -- but I hope you've learned a valuable lesson!
Mar '11
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I will say that the 5-6-4 double play the Cardinals executed was a thing of beauty. The blimp view from overhead made it look like ballet.
Sep '10
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Hey, Coach, EJ, and Cubs fan. You guys are the "Joe Biden's" of baseball. I'm sorry, I mean "Jay Carney's." I apologize. It's hard to decide. Do you guys live in the same apartment in Flint by the way? But seriously, no really. In professional sports, every player was the best player on every team that he ever played on until they arrived in the pro's. Dropping a ball always sucks, but what gets scored as an error on the upper level of baseball, is called something else everywhere else - a hit. Wake up, it's not about what you think you could have done, Jay, I mean, Joe. Now, that was an error.
Sep '11
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Umm, David Freese dropped a pop up on his head for Pete's sake. My first grader makes that catch.
I wouldn't go as far as EJ (to me it's still one of the most exciting playoff games I've watched), but there is something to what he says about the overall quality of the game.
Dec '10
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Well, don't feel alone. I have horrible memories of the '87 season which probably led me to turn the game off at the end of 7th. I did check up on the score for the sake of closure a little later, just as the Cards tied it up in the 9th. Ran back to the TV, watched Hamilton's homerun, and gave up again. Luckily, I checked the IPad one last time and saw that the score was tied again. I made it back to the TV for the 11th inning.
The game was sort of like the Cardinal's whole season. It started of with shaky pitching and awful defense. Pujols wasn't hitting. Holliday gets injured in an odd way. It looks like it is all over-twice-and then they win on the last swing of the bat. Jeez.
Jun '10
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Matthew. so was I. Only I was rooting for the Royals...what ecstasy that day, and the night before in game 6 was for us Royals fans. That was pretty much it for us. You folks are in it every year. I will be rooting for you tonight.
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By the way, this article on the fan who caught the walk-off home run ball is awesome.
Mar '11
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Mollie Hemingway, Ed.: By the way, this article on the fan who caught the walk-off home run ball is awesome.
Oct 28 at 7:50am
I'd have made sure to ask for 2 tickets for tonight's game. Go Cards!
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This article validates both the "what a messy game" views and the "best post-season game in history" views. Great read with some amazing stats.
Feb '11
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How about Napoli staying in the game after rolling his ankle like that? And then picking off Holliday at third? Great, sloppy, dramatic game indeed!
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Napoli is a terrifying player to be up against. He deserves an award of some kind. Although I hope it's not WS MVP.
Jul '10
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Good baseball?
They should be embarrassed. It was the Keystone Cops fielding for both teams.
Rangers win tonight 5-3.
Jan '11
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That answer takes a familiarity with Carpenter that I don't pretend to have. In the cold weather, can he get loose enough to pitch effectively? If I'm unsure about it, I'd start him, but then I'd rely on the catcher (Molina) to be honest about whether Carpenter is really 100%.
A seventh game puts all arms on deck. He's going to blow through the bullpen if he has to, although I wouldn't pitch Lance Lynn, the guy who gave up the back-to-back HRs. I suspect that if LaRussa put him out there, St. Louis would ... um ... object.
Dec '10
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I've been calling it the best worst baseball. It was spectacular. Nail-biting, eye-rolling, face-palming, fist-pumping, couch-jumping; despair and elation mashed together until the walk-off. Loved it.
I'm hoping for Carpenter to get the start, and I suspect we'll see a good bit of Holland out of the pen for Texas, as well.
Go. Cards.
Side note: as a Broncos fan, considering their new starting QB I think I'm going to have to get used to the idea of the best worst gameplay. This World Series has been great practice.
Dec '10
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This reminds me... I was listening to NPR while driving in to work the morning after game 3. During his report, Giles Snyder pointed out that Pujols had made history, having joined Babe Ruth and Jesse Jackson as the only players to hit three home runs in a World Series game. Whether it was written that way or he misread it, a more hilariously revealing slip of the tongue there could not be.
Apr '11
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Are there no other Texans on Ricochet? GO RANGERS!!
Sep '10
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Flagg Taylor
Umm, David Freese dropped a pop up on his head for Pete's sake. My first grader makes that catch.
Jimmy Carter
Good baseball?
They should be embarrassed. It was the Keystone Cops fielding for both teams.
Rangers win tonight 5-3.
Andrew
Have you guys ever seen Napoleon Dynamite? There was a character, Uncle Rico. He was a washed up "Glory Days" shoulda-woulda-coulda guy who sold door-to-door. He liked to videotape himself throwing a football and tell everyone how great he could've been if only coach had left him in back in high school. Seriously guys, you try shagging a few fly balls with some pro's. A 300 foot vertical pop to third base only looks easy when a pro does it; not you or your 1st grade kid. Wake up.
Jun '10
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Dear Sweet Matthew,
I suggest you find a squirrel and treat it to a T bone steak and some fine pinot by candle light.
Dear Sweet Everyone Else,
If you didn't think this was great baseball then you're a Communist.
Simple as that.
Edited on October 28, 2011 at 8:27pmJun '10
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On ESPN's Mike and Mike this morning, Buster Olney, perhaps the finest living and active baseball journalist, called the game "the best world series game of all time."
So.....
If an East coast elitist on ESPN can admit that a game played in the middle of the wilderness known to some as the "Midwest" was better than any Boston or Yankees WS game, I think that says something.