Game Six of the 2011 World Series between the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals officially will go down as one of the greats ever, regardless of what happens in tonight's climactic game in St.Louis, following last night's incredible 11th inning victory by the Cards, 10-9, on the walk-off homer by local hero David Freese, who had two dramatic hits – the first with the Cards trailing , 7-5, with two outs in the ninth inning, he hit a game-tying, two-run triple off Rangers closer Neftali Feliz with two strikes against him that came within inches of being the final out of a Rangers World Series victory.
Then the homer to end it in the 11th. Although the game will go down along with the 1975 and 1986 greatest Game Sixes, it was a nice piece of symmetry with Game Six of 20 years ago, in 1991 between Atlanta and Minnesota, when it was Joe Buck who gave the famous last call on the CBS broadcast. Last night, his son Joe Buck said the same line:
This article appears in Oct 27 – Nov 2, 2011.