Cardinals win greatest World Series game in history
Here's my favorite statistic about last night's World Series Game 6:Game-tying hits with two outs in 9th inning or later in World Series elimination game
1911- some guy for the Giants (9th inning Game 5)
1992- Otis Nixon (9th inning Game 6)
2011- David Freese (9th inning Game 6)
2011- Lance Berkman (10th inning Game 6)
Plus, both Freese and Berkman were down to their last strike. And that was before Freese came up again in the 11th inning and hit only the 5th-ever walk-off home run in a World Series Game 6 or 7.
The others are slightly famous...
1960- Bill Mazeroski (9th)
1975- Carlton Fisk (12th)
1991- Kirby Puckett (11th)
1992- Joe Carter (9th)
The 2011 Cardinals are the first-team ever to score runs in the 8th, 9th, 10th, AND 11th innings of any Series game. And now the Cardinals' Albert Pujols and David Freese have taken Reggie Jackson's 3 home run game in '77 and Carlton Fisk's epic home run in '75 and combined them into the same World Series. Insane. I hope Ken Burns was at the game last night.
And then there was Game 7...
posted by CM @ 7:07 AM
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