I loved how Cardinals hitters saw a lot of pitches off of Mets relievers in this game. Pujols had an 11-pitch at bat that sparked a rally in the top of the seventh. Eckstein had a 12-pitch at bat that ended the top of the eighth. So Taguchi hit the go ahead HR off of Billy Wagner on the ninth pitch of his at bat in the top of the ninth. Just good at bats all around!
Im a Mets fan, the cardinals winning game 2 was the turning point of the series, the Mets let this one get away, it was a good game by the way, great dramatic emotional series, even though we lost I still enjoyed this NLCS 👍
Friday the 13th Game! My friend Bob & I were home from college and attended the SLUH-CBC High School football game that night. We stayed at our other friend's place where his tv was dying and the sound wouldn't work. So we had our fun calling the last 2 innings ourselves. We went legitimately nuts and woke up their whole house (his family were early risers) when Taguchi hit the home run!
That year it seemed like every time Spiezio came up to bat in a key spot, he always came through. There weren’t many players more clutch than him in the playoffs.
I especially loved his at bat in the top of the seventh. He fell behind 0-2, fouled off two pitches, then caught a pitch from Mota that came within inches of being a home run. Gutsy at bat!
THANK YOU for this one! I had been keeping all the Cardinal wins, but when they trailed this one, I thought it was over and I turned off the VCR. This is the one I've been waiting for. (Well, this and the 2005 game with David Eckstein's walk-off grand slam.)
Yall notice that yadi vs Heilman in the 8th. He starts him off fastball call ball. Then he throws a nasty changeup. He does the same exact thing in the 9th of game 7. Yadi jumps that changeup in game 7. He was ready for it!!! Pretty cool man.
Even though the Cardinals had only won 83 games, that was still a team packed with stars with post season success in past. You making it seem based on your video description like if the Cardinals had just made the playoffs for the first time since 1996, when this 2006 core has been together pretty much since they began their playoffs run in 2000.
What an incredible game! La Russa makes a great call in replacing Chris Duncan with So Taguchi. Taguchi hit the clutch home run. Go Cardinals! clutch hit. Go Catds
How the mets lose this game is beyond me. Should of had this one in the bag. I believe game 2 was the turning point. Momentum shifted to the cardinals after this one
This was an interesting series in that most people thought the Mets would steamroll the Cardinals in four straight, but the Mets didn’t win game 1 by much (2-0 on a Beltran home run), and the Mets had the lead a couple times in game 2 but couldn’t really “put that game away”, and the Cardinals 9th inning rally in game 2 to tie the series 1-1 going to St. Louis might have been the key moment of the series. People will point to the Molina 9th inning game 7 home run, and also Wainwright striking out Beltran to win game 7, but without this game 2 Cardinals win, those game 7 heroics may not have been possible.
@@philipalt9560 yea i remember going to a Mets game at Shea on August 24th that year against the Cardinals. Mets won 6-2, completing a three game sweep and going 30 games over .500. I went home that night thinking the cardinals had no chance and being no threat to the Mets being only 66-60 after that sweep. Not even a second thought. Thats why i love this game, anything can happen and makes for great stories for years to come. Im a Yankee fan but rooted for the Mets when they werent playing my Yanks.
It was going to be hard for the Mets to win a 7-game series without their top 2 starting pitchers - they needed a lot of other things to go right. One of them was they needed their bullpen to be lights out because their starters were not going to go deep into games but they were only OK - with Wagner notably failing miserably. That wasn't good enough.
This game changed the entire series. If the Mets win this one, they sweep St. Louis. Instead, Mota threw a two-strike fastball instead of a changeup and the Mets' dream run ended that night.
This game 2 is the equivalent of game 4 1988 NLCS for the Mets. This game 2 is the game that got away. Offense was spot on, destroying the Cards ace, and Mets were on their way on clinching the NL pennant in St Louis. Another thing that hurt the Mets in this series was their power offense getting shut out by Suppan and Weaver. My goodness.
The catalyst for that rally by St. Louis was Albert Pujols. He came up to bat in the top of the seventh with two outs, went ahead 3-0, Mota battled back to bring the count full, then Pujols fouled off FIVE pitches before catching a pitch for a two out single. Mota seemed rattled, walked Edmonds on four pitches, then came Scott Spiezio and the rest is history.
This game did change the series because the Mets knew they were losing game 3 on the road with Trachsel pitching (he was at the end of his career by this point). Had Mets won this game, Mets would have clinch NL pennant in 4-5 games
2:05:39 This moment changed the whole series. With two outs and two strikes and no balls, Guillermo Mota TWICE throws a fastball right down the middle or down and in (which left hand hitters love), when Lo Duca TWICE called for a pitch away to make Spiezo chase and hopefully swing. But Mota with his pride just wanted to strike him out. This allowed the game to get tied, and the series was in the Cards momentum since. And if Shawn Green had make that catch, Mets fans would have known the catch as the Shawn Green catch, and not the Endy Chavez catch. And im sorry, but Shawn Green should have caught that
I loved how Cardinals hitters saw a lot of pitches off of Mets relievers in this game. Pujols had an 11-pitch at bat that sparked a rally in the top of the seventh. Eckstein had a 12-pitch at bat that ended the top of the eighth. So Taguchi hit the go ahead HR off of Billy Wagner on the ninth pitch of his at bat in the top of the ninth. Just good at bats all around!
Chris Duncan I miss you man
Im a Mets fan, the cardinals winning game 2 was the turning point of the series, the Mets let this one get away, it was a good game by the way, great dramatic emotional series, even though we lost I still enjoyed this NLCS 👍
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John Maine, Guillermo Mota, and Billy Wagner just stunk in this game 2
Guillermo Mota was on roids in 2006, he came out on the "Mitchell report" a few years later.
Friday the 13th Game! My friend Bob & I were home from college and attended the SLUH-CBC High School football game that night. We stayed at our other friend's place where his tv was dying and the sound wouldn't work. So we had our fun calling the last 2 innings ourselves. We went legitimately nuts and woke up their whole house (his family were early risers) when Taguchi hit the home run!
That year it seemed like every time Spiezio came up to bat in a key spot, he always came through. There weren’t many players more clutch than him in the playoffs.
I think he's always been clutch. Remember the home run he hit in Game 6 of the 2002 World Series. Basically the baseball version of Robert Horry.
I especially loved his at bat in the top of the seventh. He fell behind 0-2, fouled off two pitches, then caught a pitch from Mota that came within inches of being a home run. Gutsy at bat!
Y’all really broke our Mets fan hearts lmao
This to me was the best game of the entire playoffs. Overlooked is that the cardinals were down 3-0 with the NL cy young on the mound.
Who was the Cy Young winner?
Chris Carpenter. Won it the year before
THANK YOU for this one! I had been keeping all the Cardinal wins, but when they trailed this one, I thought it was over and I turned off the VCR. This is the one I've been waiting for. (Well, this and the 2005 game with David Eckstein's walk-off grand slam.)
Yall notice that yadi vs Heilman in the 8th. He starts him off fastball call ball. Then he throws a nasty changeup. He does the same exact thing in the 9th of game 7. Yadi jumps that changeup in game 7. He was ready for it!!! Pretty cool man.
Even though the Cardinals had only won 83 games, that was still a team packed with stars with post season success in past.
You making it seem based on your video description like if the Cardinals had just made the playoffs for the first time since 1996, when this 2006 core has been together pretty much since they began their playoffs run in 2000.
CARDINALS FU**ing SUCKED!!
2:48:03 Japanese Superstar So Taguchi！
So Fantastic! What a hit!
As a Mets fan to me this was the killer game in the series.
Great game. The only bummer was that this was the game that led to Tony La Russa and Scott Rolen falling out.
What an incredible game! La Russa makes a great call in replacing Chris Duncan with So Taguchi. Taguchi
hit the clutch home run. Go Cardinals!
clutch hit. Go Catds
You’re a douche!! 😂😂😂
@@MIKIEEYEZ1975 You're a hater
How the mets lose this game is beyond me. Should of had this one in the bag. I believe game 2 was the turning point. Momentum shifted to the cardinals after this one
It really was unfortunately
The bullpen was terrible.
You should have beaten us this LCS. We should have beaten you guys in the 2000 LCS
This was an interesting series in that most people thought the Mets would steamroll the Cardinals in four straight, but the Mets didn’t win game 1 by much (2-0 on a Beltran home run), and the Mets had the lead a couple times in game 2 but couldn’t really “put that game away”, and the Cardinals 9th inning rally in game 2 to tie the series 1-1 going to St. Louis might have been the key moment of the series. People will point to the Molina 9th inning game 7 home run, and also Wainwright striking out Beltran to win game 7, but without this game 2 Cardinals win, those game 7 heroics may not have been possible.
@@philipalt9560 yea i remember going to a Mets game at Shea on August 24th that year against the Cardinals. Mets won 6-2, completing a three game sweep and going 30 games over .500. I went home that night thinking the cardinals had no chance and being no threat to the Mets being only 66-60 after that sweep. Not even a second thought. Thats why i love this game, anything can happen and makes for great stories for years to come. Im a Yankee fan but rooted for the Mets when they werent playing my Yanks.
RIP Chris Duncan and Josh Hancock
It was going to be hard for the Mets to win a 7-game series without their top 2 starting pitchers - they needed a lot of other things to go right. One of them was they needed their bullpen to be lights out because their starters were not going to go deep into games but they were only OK - with Wagner notably failing miserably. That wasn't good enough.
game 5 was also brutal with Glavine not being able to hold a two run lead
They scored 1 run in gane 7 they lost because they didn’t hit
I just moved to Detroit but i watched the series against Detroit to
This game changed the entire series. If the Mets win this one, they sweep St. Louis. Instead, Mota threw a two-strike fastball instead of a changeup and the Mets' dream run ended that night.
This game 2 is the equivalent of game 4 1988 NLCS for the Mets.
This game 2 is the game that got away. Offense was spot on, destroying the Cards ace, and Mets were on their way on clinching the NL pennant in St Louis.
Another thing that hurt the Mets in this series was their power offense getting shut out by Suppan and Weaver. My goodness.
The catalyst for that rally by St. Louis was Albert Pujols. He came up to bat in the top of the seventh with two outs, went ahead 3-0, Mota battled back to bring the count full, then Pujols fouled off FIVE pitches before catching a pitch for a two out single. Mota seemed rattled, walked Edmonds on four pitches, then came Scott Spiezio and the rest is history.
Very true. That one pitch changed the game.
Tanmart Selby Pujols is a FAT DOUCHE BAG!! That’s why the Cardinals let him go!!
let's throw an 0-2 pitch right down the middle to Spezio. good going Mota. changed the series
This game did change the series because the Mets knew they were losing game 3 on the road with Trachsel pitching (he was at the end of his career by this point). Had Mets won this game, Mets would have clinch NL pennant in 4-5 games
You’re a douche bag!! Going.. Going... DOUCHE!! 😂😂😂😂😂
This was a great game that unfortunately the Mets lost
2:05:39 This moment changed the whole series.
With two outs and two strikes and no balls, Guillermo Mota TWICE throws a fastball right down the middle or down and in (which left hand hitters love), when Lo Duca TWICE called for a pitch away to make Spiezo chase and hopefully swing. But Mota with his pride just wanted to strike him out.
This allowed the game to get tied, and the series was in the Cards momentum since.
And if Shawn Green had make that catch, Mets fans would have known the catch as the Shawn Green catch, and not the Endy Chavez catch. And im sorry, but Shawn Green should have caught that
If you had told the Mets and their fans that Carpenter would yield five runs, they'd have chalked up a victory. Ah, but no (!)
3:05:49 Caught on tape: The elusive smile of Tona La Russa!
This game took place on the day I was born
So
Mota just wanted to serve up that 0-2 meatball to Spezio. Very suspect.
Do you have game 1??
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@@cardinalsbaseballclassics You probably went to Mizzou
CARDINALS SUCK!! 😂😂😂
@@MIKIEEYEZ1975 somebody is still butthurt about that 2011 NLDS huh lmao
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Delgado was terrifying that postseason.
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