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Prev Game Next Game. Video of game on MLB. Logos via Sports Logos. Texas Rangers. Louis Cardinals. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours the box score even gives that item to the minute of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain.
Copyright Hosted by Hosting 4 Less. Part of the Baseball Almanac Family. Follow BaseballAlmanac Find us on Facebook. Texas Rangers vs St. Well, it may not matter how long you've been alive. It may not matter how many October baseball games you've watched in your lifetime. You would have a very, very, very difficult time making a case that any of them were better than this one -- because an extra-inning walk-off home run was almost a secondary plot line, to the sight of a team coming back from the dead.
That's not to say this game was some kind of work of art or anything. It would be tough to ignore the five errors, the unearned runs that scored in three different innings, the baserunning mistakes and the miscommunications that left potholes all over the highway for the first half of this extravaganza.
Long before Freese turned into Mr. October, for instance, he clanked a routine popup and failed to catch another catchable foul ball while nearly impaling himself on a railing beyond third base. But all that goofiness was kind of entertaining in its own right.
And fortunately, at least it was confined to only the first act of this show. No kidding. And by our calculations, it was about the seventh inning when the Louvre acquisitions committee should have lurched to attention. One second, this was a game. The next, Adrian Beltre and Nelson Cruz were launching back-to-back homers to springboard the Rangers back into the lead. And here's all you need to know about how rare that was:. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, had the Rangers won, it would have been the first time a team hit back-to-back home runs in taking the lead that late in a clinching game since two nobodies named Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig hit a game-tying bomb and a go-ahead shot back-to-back in the final game of the World Series.
Pretty cool. And by the time that seventh inning ended, the Rangers led with six outs to go and three of their most trusted pitchers -- Derek Holland , Mike Adams and Neftali Feliz -- lined up to nail down those six outs. Now here's how secure a spot THAT was:. According to the invaluable website WhoWins. So obviously, no team had ever survived a mess like this and won in a World Series game. But the Cardinals are no ordinary team.
We don't need to retell the story of their season. These guys just don't give up. Still, when the bottom of the ninth rolled around, they were still trailing by two runs, Then Feliz marched in and blew away Ryan Theriot with a 98 mile-an-hour scorchball. And The End was two outs away. But then Pujols pounded a double up the gap in left-center and Berkman walked.
And the tying run was actually on base. But when Feliz punched out Allen Craig with a vicious 2-and-2 breaking ball, you could feel the energy begin to drain out of a charged up ballpark. The Rangers' players climbed to the top step of the dugout. Feliz walked to the back of the mound and stared out to center field, then left field, picturing the pitch that was going to finish off the first championship season in Rangers history.
Freese leaned on his back foot, watching, waiting and thinking, he would say later, "What a great way to have my first career AB off Feliz. And when he found another 98 mph fastball headed his way, he "didn't miss that one. He practically flicked the ball feet toward deep right field. But Cruz appeared to have a line on it.
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