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The Astros used to be in the NL. Originally there were 14 AL teams and 16 NL teams. This was because there didn't used to be inter-league play. So each league needed to be even so everyone would have someone to play. But eventually after inter-league play was long established the Astros moved to the AL to make every division 5 teams.
@@Posirep its because the AL west only had 4 teams and the Astros were in the central but close enough to the west for it still to make sense for them to go to the AL west
@@Posirep either way a central time zone team was going to have to go west. So maybe it made sense for them to go back, Milwaukee was also much closer to the other central teams. And Houston would join Texas in the west. Also a huge factor was the Astros were for sale, Bud selig is a brewers fan and the Astros were offered at a huge discount if they agreed on the move.
As a lifelong Cards fan, I’ll remember that night for the rest of my life. I remember my dad gave up and went to bed thinking we’d lost. It wasn’t until he heard not just my family and I screaming, but everyone up and down our street screaming, that he came back out to discover we’d won. A truly magical night of baseball if there ever was one.
17:38 “Triple” refers to a base hit where the hitter ends up at third base not a hit that scores three runs. Freese hit a 2-run triple. Joe Buck’s iconic “We will see you tomorrow night” is a reference to his father Jack Buck who made the exact same call when Kirby Puckett hit a walk-off to win Game 6 of the 1991 World Series for the Minnesota Twins.
The triple is often referred to as the most exciting hit in baseball, due to its rarity, and the fact that the hitter is usually running at top speed. There are far more home runs than triples.
To be clear, a legitimate hit ending up at 3rd. You can end up at third from a hit and it still won't be a triple depending on how the play went. For example, what looks like Triple is actually a double with an error if the fielder misplays the ball or takes too long allowing the extra base to happen. Also you can have a single with a 2 base error, such as an OF running past a normal hit and chasing it down allows a hitter to get to 3rd on a regular hit (single). Also a single and 2 errors gets you to 3rd when 2 fielders make bad plays causing a hitter to end up on 3rd on what is usually just a hit. This is why Triples a rare occurrence .
Every Cardinals fan remembers where they were when they watched this game. My neighbors and I ran out of our apartments and started screaming and hugging. Car horns were honking, people yelling in the streets, it was truly magical!
Was at work most of the game but got home for the 9th and after the homer my dad called and said call off work were going to game 7. What a great 2 days!
I'm 70 years old and been a Cardinal fan all my life. I actually saw Stan Musial play when I was a kid. This is one of the greatest moments I ever watched on TV. The announcers said twice that the Rangers had brought out the champagne on ice in the Ranger's locker room and had to put it back. The Cardinals have won the second most World Series after the Yankees. This year, however, they are not playing good baseball. Thanks for sharing this.
Albert Pujols in his prime was probably the most feared hitter in the game. He absolutely used to terrorize the Astros. For reference, 10% of his career 703 homeruns were against Houston, that’s not even including that mammoth homerun he launched on the train tracks in the 2005 NLCS to force game 6. Anyway, it was great news to Astros fans fans when he signed with the Angels, then the Astros were realigned to the AL West to follow Pujols.
Fun Fact: The person on play by play is Joe Buck. A native of St. Louis, he broke into the industry doing local Cardinals broadcasts before becoming the baseball voice of Fox on the national scene. Joe’s father was Jack Buck who also worked local Cardinals games and was the baseball voice for CBS when they had the nationwide rights. The color guy with Joe is Tim McCarver a former Cardinals player. David Freeze is a native of St. Louis. Almost 20 years to the day before the Freeze triple and walk off home run, Joe was calling game 6 of the World Series, with Tim McCarver, when Kirby Puckett of the Twins hit a walk off home run. His call on the play…”We will see you tomorrow night.” You can imagine how magical that game was for Cardinals fans. You guys talked about how that all seemed to be fate. Everyone started to believe that during the September run. Then there was the “Rally Squirrel” in the NLDS (google it, there is a wikipedia page). No one I knew watched game 6 with thought we were going to lose at any point. Even when down to the final strike twice. That team already had us believing in miracles.
What’s great about Joe Buck, the in-game commentator saying “We will see you tomorrow night” is that 20 years earlier, his father Jack Buck said the exact same thing during Game 6 of the World Series, when Kirby Puckett of the Twins hit a walk-off home run. Both are truly some of the greatest moments in baseball and sports history.
I’m 70 and a lifelong Cardinals fan, this was the most agonizing and then exhilarating game I can remember ever watching. I resigned myself to defeat so many times in this game, I couldn’t really comprehend for a few minutes that we had actually won.
Joe Buck, the announcer who made the "We'll see you tomorrow night" was paying homage to his father, Hall of Fame announcer Jack Buck, who made the exact same call in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series when Kirby Puckett hit a walk off HR for the Minnesota Twins
Astros were in the NL Central until 2012... but the league wanted even teams so they realigned and moved Houston the AL... making it 15 teams per league - 5 per division. This World Series was great... and this game was one of the best games I watched on tv... I was an intern in college at the time and we all up close to the television. (and we are Red Sox fans lol)
Also the looks you guys' faces as you slowly realized how crazy this game was getting was epic. Seeing the score, the count, the inning. Stellar stuff.
Haha thanks Sterling, it really did get so so good this one! I couldn’t believe how many times the Rangers should have wrapped this game up. Really appreciate the comment 🙏
Single, Double, and Triple are how the number of bases you pick up are noted when you get a hit. So for that particular play its a 2RBI Triple cause two guys came home and he ended up on third.
Another rewind you should look at is the one covering Game 162. The finale of the 2011 baseball season was the best night of baseball I've ever seen, and it was capped off by a final day featuring insane comebacks.
Still the very best series of baseball I have ever gotten to watch, I still remember watching it with my dad in the living room on my Great Grandmas old TV
Houston Astros Came into Baseball as a NATIONAL LEAGUE expansion team in 1962. They ended in the National League West Division with San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cincinnati and Atlanta when MLB split into 2 divisions in 1969. There were initially only 2 Divisions... East and West. Rick Charleston SC
If you guys are going to take a look at Jon Bois, I can't recommend his series "Pretty Good" highly enough. Covers some of the most amazing, idiosyncratic stories in all of sports. In particular, his episode on the famous Troy State-Devry basketball game (Final Score: 253-141) is a masterpiece.
My favorite part of this whole ordeal: Joe Buck, the son of St. Louis Cardinals legend Jack Buck, watching the team he and his late father watched when he was a kid. This is Joe Buck’s shining moment. This is Joe Buck himself realizing that those Hollywood endings can happen for him too.
This is the second year I remember heavily following baseball. I still have the “Who’s Who?” statbook I got taken away in 4th grade from this season. David Freese man, not a super notable name but will never have to buy a beer with a Cardinals fan around again.
This was one of, if not, the first MLB game I watched. I didn't get into baseball until around 2010 and my parents weren't huge baseball fans but I happened to be spending the weekend at my grandfathers house and turned on the game partway through. I remember watching Freese's triple, Hamilton's homer, and the absolutely great call from the commentator. One of the all-time best games
This one was definitely one of my favourite deep rewinds. Really got more and more into this one as it went on. Thank you for the comment Johanna, really appreciate it!
Also the pick off play, while rarely successful in getting a put out, serves to keep the runner worried about getting put out by the play, and keeps them closer to the base as a result. It makes it harder for a runner to steal a base.
Love being a cubs fan- Wrigley field is an amazing venue in a league full of great ball parks, lots of history and rightly called “the friendly confines” because its always a good time at a cubs game, even if the play isn’t great
Another EPIC moment in Cardinal and Adam Wainwright history is the 2006 5-4 series clinching win against the NY Mets at Citi Field. Wainwright was going up against the notorious Cardinal killer Carlos Beltran. With bases loaded and 2 outs and Beltran at the plate with a 0 - 2 count (1. Fast ball caught him looking. 2. Curve ball with a swing and a tapped foul that bounced off his ankle), Wainwright pitched the most beautiful 12-6 curve ball that literally made Beltran's knees buckle as he watched it go into Molina's glove; sending The Cardinals to the World Series against the Detroit Tigers. 2006 was the very first year The Cardinals were in their new Busch Stadium. I was lucky enough to get to go the first home game of the series. It was cold and blustery that evening, and I was dressed more for a football game than a baseball game, but it's an experience I'll never forget.
I forget what other teams Freese played for but he continued being clutch in the playoffs. Even after having bad regular season stats he would put it all together when it mattered most.
Yay finally!!! So happy you guys did this video. As a life long Cards fan, this game is burned into my brain. The season felt like it was over so many times that year, and the fact that they just kept hanging on is one of the reasons no one ever counts out the cardinals anymore no matter how bad we are playing.
Also of note was that Nolan Ryan was the president and CEO of those Rangers. They kept showing him in the stands and the rollercoaster of emotion was very evident on his face.
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As someone who grew up in St. Louis, David freese with that game alone forever cemented his legacy as one of the biggest names in St. Louis n will always be remembered even when he’s gone for game 6 of the 2011 World Series
I had a good chuckle at 15:08 when you said "written in the stars". I remember this postseason vividly as a Brewers fan, and the song of the postseason on TBS was "Written in the Stars" by Tinie Tempah. It was played almost every time they went and returned from a commercial break. That song will forever be stuck in my head because of it.
I watched this Series back in 2011 and i had forgotten all of this. It was fun strolling down memory lane with you guys. These videos are great. Pieces of history. I'm glad you reacted to it - hope you do more of them. Thanks for posting this one.
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I was at the game and it was amazing. I was congratulating the Ranger fans around me going into the 9th inning. Game 7 was great but at that point we felt like we had already won.
This remains one of the craziest videos. I cannot believe how many times Rangers threw it away, but it was an incredible comeback and victory for Cardinals. Thank you for the comment 🤝
I'm glad Jon Bois is on your radar, you really can't go wrong with him. My favorite of his is either "Randall Cunningham Seizes the Means of Production" or "Pretty Good: 222-0"
Ahh, 2011. Such a great time. You should look up the calls for some of those iconic hits. My favorite one is when Berman hits the game tying single in the 10th. The announce says after a long, stunned pause, "They just. Won't. Go. Away." Exactly with that sort of inflection.
A reminder that the Josh Hamilton story is one of the most tragic around. Josh Hamilton was a former number one overall draft pick who succumbed to substance abuse, and then turned things around to become the player that we all knew he could be. For a few seasons, he was the kind of incredibly talented player that we all knew he had the talent to be. He signed a huge contract with the Anaheim Angels. He never completely kicked the substance abuse issue, and he was eventually cut by the Angels. It was an albatross of a contract. He is a cautionary tale of potential derailed by substance abuse, redemption as the he beat substance abuse, and the eventual relapse that took the rest of his career. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Hamilton
The Houston Astros were in the National League from 1962 (the club's debut as an expansion team) until 2013 when they were moved to the American League by MLB. From 1998 until 2013, the NL had 16 teams and the AL had 14. The NL Central Division was the only one with 6 teams, while the AL West Division had only 4 teams. The other four divisions each had 5 teams.
The Rangers are lucky that everyone remembers this for the Cardinals being ice-cold rather than Texas botching it. They had the Cardinals down to their final strike TWICE and still couldn't close it out before losing Game 7 too.
One of the Greatest Baseball Games of all time. David Freese was pretty average baseball player overall but will always be a STL Legend. The grassy area in Center Field at Busch Stadium is called Freese's Landing now.
I can't believe European Sports do not have playoffs. I guess it's because they have all of those tournaments through out the year. They are missing out.
I’ve stopped this video at 0:01 & won’t play it any further bc my heart can’t deal with opening this wound but happy y’all’s channel is doing so well. Cheers boys
Ugh. 2011 NLDS Game 5. Losing 1-0 at home with Halladay on the mound. I will never get over that as a Phillies fan. It ended an incredible 5 year run, arguably the best in franchise history. Until last season the Phillies hadn't made the playoffs since losing that Game 5 to the Cardinals.
I've seen this video a few times, but I never noticed the Cardinals picked up Edwin Jackson and Octavio Dotel (Numbers 1 & 2 on the all-time "Played for the largest number of teams" list) in the same season.
Even as a Cubs fan, I couldn't help but find myself rooting for the Cards. They were the epitome of "clutch." The reason why the game of baseball is so ingrained in American consciousness was on full display in this game.
Joe Bucks father Jack Buck made the legendary call “We will see you tomorrow night” after Kirby Pucketts game winning home run in game 6 of the 1991 World Series. That was a nice touch by Joe honouring his dad.
In that span, Chris Carpenter was one of the best pitchers OF ALL TIME. He was absolutely LIGHTS OUT. Never seen a guy do that under pressure like he did. He was better the more pressure there was..
This was a great video guys. I thought I knew most of the backstory to this monumental Cardinals world series win but I can see now that I did not. The video creator here is one of the best baseball storytellers on this platform. He captures every relevant moment backed with footage and a perfect explanation of where it fits within the context of the rewind masterfully. And once again you guys impress me by just how easily you recognize every point of reference, angle and irony that he throws in. Baseball has definitely found a place in your hearts. I'm happy about that! ⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾
The Astros were in the NL Central up until recently. They moved the Astros because they had 6 in the NL Central, everyone else had 5. If you ever want to see someone picked off. Look up the Cardinal Catcher Yadi Molina. He picked off a record # in his career. Notorious for it. Also, throwing out base runners.
You need to watch the rewind of Madison Bumgarner game 7 of the world series. It was an amazing display of top notch pitching performance in the WS. It was too unbelievable that the Giants even made it to the post season that year, the team actually benefited from the "booth review" rule that was implemented in that same year. Anyway it's a great watch.
It was a game tying 2-run triple, its a triple because he make it to 3rd base, not that he drove in two, and a double is when you make it to second base
I'm not even a Cardinals fan, but this is one of my favorite MLB moments of all time, made even better when given all of the context on how they even got there in the first place.
Nice work. If you want to see successful pick off attempts, watch none other than the Cardinals own Yadier Molina highlights. He was one of if not the best ever to do it.
The Astros are a part of a funny story. When the MLB decided to realign the divisions in 1995, the Houston Astros were in the NL central and the Milwaukee Brewers were in the AL Central. However, for some reason in 1998, the Milwaukee Brewers, who were owned by baseball's commissioner at the time, Bug Selig, were moved to the NL Central and no teams were moved from the NL to the AL. So there were 6 teams in the NL Central but only 4 teams in the AL West after the time. This was after adding the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. And it would stay unbalanced that way until 2013 when the Houston Astros were finally moved to the AL West
So I am a lifelong Cards fan with a Dad who is from St. Louis. I was 21 at this time and living on my own and luckily was friends with my downstairs neighbors. Still had to give them a nice batch of homemade desserts after. Also called my dad right after the game. Also my dad says that if the Cards have a winning record at the all star break then they are going into the post season. It seems to be true.
As a lifelong Cardinals fan, most of this game felt like a typical ending to a Cardinals season: Give people hope and then do something stupid and lose. They just had some bad plays early on (not just Freese missing the catch) that just made it feel like they were already done. Then it started to feel like someone found a genie and wished for the Cardinals to win. It felt like Texas did everything right and should have won, but then the genie would work its magic and make the Cards score. Like, if you sold it as a script no one would believe it would be possible.
5:07 - Nice catch again Damo. You have stumbled upon a quirk, albeit a relatively brief one, in the history of league and divisional alignment and scheduling. The Astros actually started in 1962 in the National League. We'll get to them later but the first thing I have to touch on is the presence of the Brewers in that list and the series of events that led to that and that would eventually see the Astros switch to the American League. Prior to MLB last expanding in 1998, there were 28 teams in each league with 5 teams in each league's eastern and central divisions and 4 teams in each league's western division and, most importantly, an even number of teams in each league. They had only just started playing "interleague" games (games between teams from opposite leagues) in 1997, but those games and series were scattered and mainly to allow for local rivals in opposite leagues to play each other at least once a year (Mets/Yankees, Dodgers/Angels, Giants/A's, etc.). In order to keep interleague games a thing but on the rare side, they decided to allow one new team into each league for expansion (the Tampa Bay Rays (then Devil Rays) into the American League and the Arizona Diamondbacks into the National League) but shift the Milwaukee Brewers from the American League where they had been since their inception in 1969 to the National League to keep an even number of teams in each league; 16 National and 14 American. This had the knock-on effect of having 6 teams in the NL Central and 4 Teams in the AL West and 5 in all the other divisions (the Rays joined the AL East and pushed the Tigers to the AL Central to occupy the spot left by the Brewers, the D-Backs joined the NL West, and the Brewers joined the Astros in the NL Central). This was odd but worked okay enough for a few years (except for the fact that the American League West was often awful) but then the powers that be fully merged the leagues into one entity in 2000 and then, eventually, wanted to see divisional parity and an expansion of interleague games because it both were popular and the latter a money-maker. In 2013, they accomplished this by shifting the Astros to the AL West which made everything nice and tidy (and help boon their success over the next 10 years). 7:55 - This was the case from 2003 to 2016. (If you think THIS is dumb, home field used to just alternate between leagues. As has been the case with every all-star game in every sport since the 90's, the MLB All-Star Game had been losing prominence due to increased interleague play, better national TV and internet coverage of the games and stars, and the players caring less and less about actually playing in it. Then, in 2002, the game ended in a tie when, after 11 innings, both teams ran out of pitchers. The game was called by then-commissioner Bud Selig in front of his home-town crowd in Milwaukee. Selig took the whole situation pretty personally and vowed to make the All-Star game count. He borrowed an idea that had been floated around to make the All-Star Game determine home field advantage in the World Series and we were off. It didn't make the players play more or any harder in the game but it did make the fans of contenders pay attention more but it was still dumb so they did away with it for 2017. Now it's just the team with the best regular season record regardless of league seed (just like the NBA and NHL do it). 17:43 - Singles, doubles, and triples refer to the number of bases the batter reached not the number of runs scored on the play. If you want to add in the number of runs scored you say x-run _____. In this case it was a 2-run triple. 17:50 - They didn't come in, they were pretty deep to try and prevent exactly what happened. It's just that Cruz in right field was not as deep as the other 2 outfielders (not sure if that was negligence or due to the fact that they didn't think Freese had that much opposite-field power). 20:30 - The most epic part of that commentary was that the play-by-play man, Joe Buck, a legend in his own right, was the son of another legendary broadcaster Jack Buck. Both had their share of legendary calls especially in the baseball postseason and World Series but one of Jack's most famous calls was of the walk-off home run by Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series. As THAT home run sailed over the wall, Jack famously said, "We'll see you, tomorrow night" in that very same cadence that Joe did it here. Jack passed away in 2002 and I can see Joe wanting to make that same call if the situation came up where there was a big Game 6 walk off but to do it in honor of his own dad (and with the team that Jack did regular season games for and that Joe grew up watching, the Cardinals) made it that much more special.
The Astros used to be in the National League. Also the Brewers used to be in the American League. I believe the Brewers jumped to the NL when Inter-League play started, so that there would be even number of teams in each league to make scheduling games easier, 14 in the AL and 16 in the NL. Before Inter-League play began the only time the AL would play against in the NL would be in the World Series and All-Star Game. When they added more Inter-League scheduling, the Astros moved to the AL making it 15 teams in both leagues.
When you guys finally get to your first Jon Bois video, "222-0: PRETTY GOOD" is the video you want to start with bar-none. It's about the most lopsided college football game of all time, between Georgia Tech and Cumberland College. GA Tech won 222-0, and the story of the game is told beautifully by Jon Bois. Trust me, it's worth it.
The “we will see you tomorrow night” call was in honor of the announcers (joe buck) father Jack Buck who had made the same call 20 years to the day for a game 6 walk off home run by Kirby Puckett in Minnesota. This was the greatest game I had watched at this point and it may still be. If you can find a good video on the 2014 AL wild card game with the royals and A’s please watch it. That was the game that may have beaten this for drama. Love your videos and look forward to more baseball in the future.
14:30 Just imagine what it was like just a year ago when the pitcher had unlimited attempts to pick someone off. It was done for mind game reasons. The pitcher wanted to make sure the runner knows he can't be too eager to inch towards the next base. Now you have to get him out on the 3rd attempt or it's a free base.
This will always be my favorite baseball game from start to finish. Granted I may be a little biased as a Cardinals fan, but there's just something special about it all around
A ‘triple’ means the runner gets to 3rd base. A double, 2nd base & a single, to 1st base. It doesn’t have anything to do with the number of runs scored. He hit a ‘two run triple.’
Single, double, and triple refer to the number of bases the batter takes on their hit, not runs batted in (RBIs). 1st- single, 2nd-double, 3rd-triple. So at the end of that play he was standing on third.
Guys remember, Baseball is a marathon, not a Sprint, like NFL. Anything can happen over 6 months. Good teams can go cold, average teams can get hot. This is what makes the game and season so much fun.
I would definitely recommend watching Secret Base’s video about Game 162 of the 2011 season as well for more about how the Cardinals got here (and how absolutely crazy the end of the regular season was)
When the Astros were in the NL, there were 16 NL teams and only 14 AL teams, the NL central had 6 teams like you saw and the AL west, where they play now only had 4 teams, it was this way because throughout most of the season, you only played you own league in the regular season, when they moved to 15 teams in each league, now there always has to be a NL team playing a AL team, the two leagues were generally considered different leagues with different rules
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The Astros used to be in the NL. Originally there were 14 AL teams and 16 NL teams. This was because there didn't used to be inter-league play. So each league needed to be even so everyone would have someone to play. But eventually after inter-league play was long established the Astros moved to the AL to make every division 5 teams.
At that time the NL Central was the only division with 6 teams and the AL West had 4 teams. All the other divisions had 5 as they do now.
They used to be in the NL, which is what i think you meant, they are now in the AL
Funny thing was Brewers were an AL team until the 90s so youd think theyd be the obvious choice to go back to the AL.
@@Posirep its because the AL west only had 4 teams and the Astros were in the central but close enough to the west for it still to make sense for them to go to the AL west
@@Posirep either way a central time zone team was going to have to go west. So maybe it made sense for them to go back, Milwaukee was also much closer to the other central teams. And Houston would join Texas in the west. Also a huge factor was the Astros were for sale, Bud selig is a brewers fan and the Astros were offered at a huge discount if they agreed on the move.
As a lifelong Cards fan, I’ll remember that night for the rest of my life. I remember my dad gave up and went to bed thinking we’d lost. It wasn’t until he heard not just my family and I screaming, but everyone up and down our street screaming, that he came back out to discover we’d won. A truly magical night of baseball if there ever was one.
opposite for me as a Rangers fan. Watched the whole game. Was fucking drained and exhausted by the end of the game.
@@gamingeagle19 Sorry about that. Hopefully you guys win it all this year. I have family down in Dallas. You guys are rolling so far!
@@snipz127this comment aged well. As a yankees fan, gotta feel good for rangers fans they absolutely deserve it
@@boroapracs9660 thank you sir
17:38 “Triple” refers to a base hit where the hitter ends up at third base not a hit that scores three runs. Freese hit a 2-run triple.
Joe Buck’s iconic “We will see you tomorrow night” is a reference to his father Jack Buck who made the exact same call when Kirby Puckett hit a walk-off to win Game 6 of the 1991 World Series for the Minnesota Twins.
The triple is often referred to as the most exciting hit in baseball, due to its rarity, and the fact that the hitter is usually running at top speed. There are far more home runs than triples.
To be clear, a legitimate hit ending up at 3rd. You can end up at third from a hit and it still won't be a triple depending on how the play went. For example, what looks like Triple is actually a double with an error if the fielder misplays the ball or takes too long allowing the extra base to happen. Also you can have a single with a 2 base error, such as an OF running past a normal hit and chasing it down allows a hitter to get to 3rd on a regular hit (single).
Also a single and 2 errors gets you to 3rd when 2 fielders make bad plays causing a hitter to end up on 3rd on what is usually just a hit. This is why Triples a rare occurrence .
Every Cardinals fan remembers where they were when they watched this game. My neighbors and I ran out of our apartments and started screaming and hugging. Car horns were honking, people yelling in the streets, it was truly magical!
My mom was balling her eyes out she was so happy.
Was at work most of the game but got home for the 9th and after the homer my dad called and said call off work were going to game 7. What a great 2 days!
This is one of the all time classic games in MLB history. And Joe Bucks call of that ending homerun is legendary
Homage to his Dad’s call of Kirby Puckett’s walkoff in game 6 in ‘91
@nathanambers1714 I didn't know that...that's pretty neat, thank you for the extra context
Joe Buck was actually talking about his dad's call earlier in the night, then he got to make the same call.
@photojo9016 wow! Special moment got even more incredible for me. Thank you for reminding me
I'm 70 years old and been a Cardinal fan all my life. I actually saw Stan Musial play when I was a kid. This is one of the greatest moments I ever watched on TV. The announcers said twice that the Rangers had brought out the champagne on ice in the Ranger's locker room and had to put it back. The Cardinals have won the second most World Series after the Yankees. This year, however, they are not playing good baseball. Thanks for sharing this.
I'm a 22 year old Cardinals fan :) This moment defined my childhood
Albert Pujols in his prime was probably the most feared hitter in the game. He absolutely used to terrorize the Astros. For reference, 10% of his career 703 homeruns were against Houston, that’s not even including that mammoth homerun he launched on the train tracks in the 2005 NLCS to force game 6. Anyway, it was great news to Astros fans fans when he signed with the Angels, then the Astros were realigned to the AL West to follow Pujols.
Pujols was a monster in his prime.
I wasn't even a Astros fan but i felt so bad for Lidge when he hung that pitch. Happy he got his redemption in Philly tho.
The Cardinals were fools to let him get away. 3.o
Fun Fact: The person on play by play is Joe Buck. A native of St. Louis, he broke into the industry doing local Cardinals broadcasts before becoming the baseball voice of Fox on the national scene. Joe’s father was Jack Buck who also worked local Cardinals games and was the baseball voice for CBS when they had the nationwide rights. The color guy with Joe is Tim McCarver a former Cardinals player. David Freeze is a native of St. Louis.
Almost 20 years to the day before the Freeze triple and walk off home run, Joe was calling game 6 of the World Series, with Tim McCarver, when Kirby Puckett of the Twins hit a walk off home run. His call on the play…”We will see you tomorrow night.”
You can imagine how magical that game was for Cardinals fans. You guys talked about how that all seemed to be fate. Everyone started to believe that during the September run. Then there was the “Rally Squirrel” in the NLDS (google it, there is a wikipedia page). No one I knew watched game 6 with thought we were going to lose at any point. Even when down to the final strike twice. That team already had us believing in miracles.
What’s great about Joe Buck, the in-game commentator saying “We will see you tomorrow night” is that 20 years earlier, his father Jack Buck said the exact same thing during Game 6 of the World Series, when Kirby Puckett of the Twins hit a walk-off home run. Both are truly some of the greatest moments in baseball and sports history.
I was 10 years old when this happened. This moment single handedly made me obsessed with sports and with competition. Go Cardinals!!
You have to react to game 162, from that same season. One of the greatest nights of baseball ever.
I’m 70 and a lifelong Cardinals fan, this was the most agonizing and then exhilarating game I can remember ever watching. I resigned myself to defeat so many times in this game, I couldn’t really comprehend for a few minutes that we had actually won.
Joe Buck, the announcer who made the "We'll see you tomorrow night" was paying homage to his father, Hall of Fame announcer Jack Buck, who made the exact same call in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series when Kirby Puckett hit a walk off HR for the Minnesota Twins
Astros were in the NL Central until 2012... but the league wanted even teams so they realigned and moved Houston the AL... making it 15 teams per league - 5 per division.
This World Series was great... and this game was one of the best games I watched on tv... I was an intern in college at the time and we all up close to the television. (and we are Red Sox fans lol)
Also the looks you guys' faces as you slowly realized how crazy this game was getting was epic. Seeing the score, the count, the inning. Stellar stuff.
Haha thanks Sterling, it really did get so so good this one! I couldn’t believe how many times the Rangers should have wrapped this game up. Really appreciate the comment 🙏
Single, Double, and Triple are how the number of bases you pick up are noted when you get a hit. So for that particular play its a 2RBI Triple cause two guys came home and he ended up on third.
Highly reccomend “Bonds in four” by foolish baseball. Insight to how good the greatest hitter to ever live was
Another rewind you should look at is the one covering Game 162. The finale of the 2011 baseball season was the best night of baseball I've ever seen, and it was capped off by a final day featuring insane comebacks.
Still the very best series of baseball I have ever gotten to watch, I still remember watching it with my dad in the living room on my Great Grandmas old TV
Houston Astros Came into Baseball as a NATIONAL LEAGUE expansion team in 1962. They ended in the National League West Division with San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cincinnati and Atlanta when MLB split into 2 divisions in 1969.
There were initially only 2 Divisions... East and West.
Rick
Charleston SC
If you guys are going to take a look at Jon Bois, I can't recommend his series "Pretty Good" highly enough. Covers some of the most amazing, idiosyncratic stories in all of sports. In particular, his episode on the famous Troy State-Devry basketball game (Final Score: 253-141) is a masterpiece.
My favorite part of this whole ordeal: Joe Buck, the son of St. Louis Cardinals legend Jack Buck, watching the team he and his late father watched when he was a kid. This is Joe Buck’s shining moment. This is Joe Buck himself realizing that those Hollywood endings can happen for him too.
This is the second year I remember heavily following baseball. I still have the “Who’s Who?” statbook I got taken away in 4th grade from this season. David Freese man, not a super notable name but will never have to buy a beer with a Cardinals fan around again.
I do not have my appendix anymore. I really miss it. We had some great times together. Poor little feller.
This was one of, if not, the first MLB game I watched. I didn't get into baseball until around 2010 and my parents weren't huge baseball fans but I happened to be spending the weekend at my grandfathers house and turned on the game partway through. I remember watching Freese's triple, Hamilton's homer, and the absolutely great call from the commentator. One of the all-time best games
These are such great breakdowns! I love how he goes over the history and builds the excitement of the moment. Really fun to watch!
This one was definitely one of my favourite deep rewinds. Really got more and more into this one as it went on. Thank you for the comment Johanna, really appreciate it!
Lot of back story to every team in October. Fun to relive it!
Also the pick off play, while rarely successful in getting a put out, serves to keep the runner worried about getting put out by the play, and keeps them closer to the base as a result. It makes it harder for a runner to steal a base.
This was one of the greatest moments of my sport viewing life
I remember following this game live. Was listening on the car radio. Most exciting game I can remember.
To this day, this is the greatest game of baseball I've ever watched. All time classic
Love being a cubs fan- Wrigley field is an amazing venue in a league full of great ball parks, lots of history and rightly called “the friendly confines” because its always a good time at a cubs game, even if the play isn’t great
Great reaction, I hope you guys check out Albert Pujols, Yadier Molina, and Adrian Beltre three future hall of famers that played in this World Series
Thank you C M, really appreciate your support! Have checked and we’ve got these 3 on our list to get to 🙏
It's true that pick offs are rarely successful, but often times the point is just to keep the runner honest and not give up a free base.
Another EPIC moment in Cardinal and Adam Wainwright history is the 2006 5-4 series clinching win against the NY Mets at Citi Field.
Wainwright was going up against the notorious Cardinal killer Carlos Beltran. With bases loaded and 2 outs and Beltran at the plate with a 0 - 2 count (1. Fast ball caught him looking. 2. Curve ball with a swing and a tapped foul that bounced off his ankle), Wainwright pitched the most beautiful 12-6 curve ball that literally made Beltran's knees buckle as he watched it go into Molina's glove; sending The Cardinals to the World Series against the Detroit Tigers.
2006 was the very first year The Cardinals were in their new Busch Stadium. I was lucky enough to get to go the first home game of the series. It was cold and blustery that evening, and I was dressed more for a football game than a baseball game, but it's an experience I'll never forget.
I forget what other teams Freese played for but he continued being clutch in the playoffs. Even after having bad regular season stats he would put it all together when it mattered most.
Respect for you displaying our flag properly. Great job guys!
Thanks Eric!
@@DNReacts Don't forget to stay up and watch the Stanley Cup Finals tonight. Go Panthers!
Probably the most entertaining baseball game I've ever watched, an instant classic at the time. Glad you guys watched it too.
Absolutely loved this one, really really got into it as the deep rewind went on! Appreciate the comment, thanks
Yay finally!!! So happy you guys did this video. As a life long Cards fan, this game is burned into my brain. The season felt like it was over so many times that year, and the fact that they just kept hanging on is one of the reasons no one ever counts out the cardinals anymore no matter how bad we are playing.
What an amazing memory!
Definitely one of the best games I've seen. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time.
Also of note was that Nolan Ryan was the president and CEO of those Rangers. They kept showing him in the stands and the rollercoaster of emotion was very evident on his face.
Another deep rewind video to look at would be Madison Baumgartner's epic finish, about the 2014 World Series game 7
Thank you for the suggestion Andrew, really appreciate this, will check it’s on the watch list, thanks for the comment. We run regular polls on our Discord for all members to have a say in what videos we do next if you’re not already on there 🙏
As someone who grew up in St. Louis, David freese with that game alone forever cemented his legacy as one of the biggest names in St. Louis n will always be remembered even when he’s gone for game 6 of the 2011 World Series
I had a good chuckle at 15:08 when you said "written in the stars". I remember this postseason vividly as a Brewers fan, and the song of the postseason on TBS was "Written in the Stars" by Tinie Tempah. It was played almost every time they went and returned from a commercial break. That song will forever be stuck in my head because of it.
Best day of my life. Still gives me goosebumps.
I watched this Series back in 2011 and i had forgotten all of this. It was fun strolling down memory lane with you guys. These videos are great. Pieces of history. I'm glad you reacted to it - hope you do more of them. Thanks for posting this one.
Gibson's HR for the Dodgers vs Oakland in the World Series is the most amazing walk-off homer on baseball history. You guys MUST check it out.
Thank you for the suggestion and comment, really appreciate this, will check it’s on the watch list too. We run regular polls on our Discord for all members to have a say in what videos we do next if you’re not already on there 🙏
I was at the game and it was amazing. I was congratulating the Ranger fans around me going into the 9th inning. Game 7 was great but at that point we felt like we had already won.
This remains one of the craziest videos. I cannot believe how many times Rangers threw it away, but it was an incredible comeback and victory for Cardinals. Thank you for the comment 🤝
The documentary Game 162 covers the last day of this season and it’s is incredible. 4 games determine the last two playoff spots
I'm glad Jon Bois is on your radar, you really can't go wrong with him. My favorite of his is either "Randall Cunningham Seizes the Means of Production" or "Pretty Good: 222-0"
This is, without question, the best game I have ever watched.
Game seven was also a great game, but nothing compared to game six.
Ahh, 2011. Such a great time. You should look up the calls for some of those iconic hits. My favorite one is when Berman hits the game tying single in the 10th. The announce says after a long, stunned pause,
"They just. Won't. Go. Away."
Exactly with that sort of inflection.
Worth a mention after pickoff attempts were discussed…Tippy Martinez picked off 3 runners in one inning when playing for the Orioles
A reminder that the Josh Hamilton story is one of the most tragic around. Josh Hamilton was a former number one overall draft pick who succumbed to substance abuse, and then turned things around to become the player that we all knew he could be. For a few seasons, he was the kind of incredibly talented player that we all knew he had the talent to be. He signed a huge contract with the Anaheim Angels. He never completely kicked the substance abuse issue, and he was eventually cut by the Angels. It was an albatross of a contract.
He is a cautionary tale of potential derailed by substance abuse, redemption as the he beat substance abuse, and the eventual relapse that took the rest of his career.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Hamilton
The Houston Astros were in the National League from 1962 (the club's debut as an expansion team) until 2013 when they were moved to the American League by MLB. From 1998 until 2013, the NL had 16 teams and the AL had 14. The NL Central Division was the only one with 6 teams, while the AL West Division had only 4 teams. The other four divisions each had 5 teams.
fun video might be you guys react to best pickoffs in MLB
Thank you, this does sound like a fun one! Thanks for the suggestion and comment, really appreciate it
As a cardinals fan, this was the craziest year to be one. It was a perfect way to cap off Pujols' initial run with Saint Louis.
The Rangers are lucky that everyone remembers this for the Cardinals being ice-cold rather than Texas botching it. They had the Cardinals down to their final strike TWICE and still couldn't close it out before losing Game 7 too.
One of the Greatest Baseball Games of all time. David Freese was pretty average baseball player overall but will always be a STL Legend. The grassy area in Center Field at Busch Stadium is called Freese's Landing now.
This is why I say the 7-game series is the crown jewel of North American sports.
I can't believe European Sports do not have playoffs. I guess it's because they have all of those tournaments through out the year. They are missing out.
I’ve stopped this video at 0:01 & won’t play it any further bc my heart can’t deal with opening this wound but happy y’all’s channel is doing so well. Cheers boys
Thanks, we really appreciate the support 🙏
Ugh. 2011 NLDS Game 5. Losing 1-0 at home with Halladay on the mound. I will never get over that as a Phillies fan. It ended an incredible 5 year run, arguably the best in franchise history. Until last season the Phillies hadn't made the playoffs since losing that Game 5 to the Cardinals.
I've seen this video a few times, but I never noticed the Cardinals picked up Edwin Jackson and Octavio Dotel (Numbers 1 & 2 on the all-time "Played for the largest number of teams" list) in the same season.
Emotionally and statistically this was the absolute pinnacle of all World Series games.
Even as a Cubs fan, I couldn't help but find myself rooting for the Cards. They were the epitome of "clutch." The reason why the game of baseball is so ingrained in American consciousness was on full display in this game.
Joe Bucks father Jack Buck made the legendary call “We will see you tomorrow night” after Kirby Pucketts game winning home run in game 6 of the 1991 World Series. That was a nice touch by Joe honouring his dad.
In that span, Chris Carpenter was one of the best pitchers OF ALL TIME. He was absolutely LIGHTS OUT. Never seen a guy do that under pressure like he did. He was better the more pressure there was..
Carp's diving put out at first in Game 1 of that series showed how much he wanted to win.
This was a great video guys. I thought I knew most of the backstory to this monumental Cardinals world series win but I can see now that I did not. The video creator here is one of the best baseball storytellers on this platform. He captures every relevant moment backed with footage and a perfect explanation of where it fits within the context of the rewind masterfully. And once again you guys impress me by just how easily you recognize every point of reference, angle and irony that he throws in. Baseball has definitely found a place in your hearts. I'm happy about that! ⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾
"game 162 documentary" is long but one of the most incredible days in baseball
This same channel has a rewind breakdown on Tracy McGrady’s (T-Mac) 13 pts in 33 seconds. Absolutely legendary performance that is worth a reaction.
I was at this game! I wanted to leave a few times but I stuck it out and man o man was it worth it
The Astros were in the NL Central up until recently. They moved the Astros because they had 6 in the NL Central, everyone else had 5. If you ever want to see someone picked off. Look up the Cardinal Catcher Yadi Molina. He picked off a record # in his career. Notorious for it. Also, throwing out base runners.
You need to watch the rewind of Madison Bumgarner game 7 of the world series. It was an amazing display of top notch pitching performance in the WS. It was too unbelievable that the Giants even made it to the post season that year, the team actually benefited from the "booth review" rule that was implemented in that same year. Anyway it's a great watch.
It was a game tying 2-run triple, its a triple because he make it to 3rd base, not that he drove in two, and a double is when you make it to second base
I'm not even a Cardinals fan, but this is one of my favorite MLB moments of all time, made even better when given all of the context on how they even got there in the first place.
Nice work. If you want to see successful pick off attempts, watch none other than the Cardinals own Yadier Molina highlights. He was one of if not the best ever to do it.
Talking about catcher pick offs. You should really check out Yadier Molina defensive highlights.
This still causes me physical pain when I think of it. The most devastated I've ever been from any sporting event.
The Astros are a part of a funny story. When the MLB decided to realign the divisions in 1995, the Houston Astros were in the NL central and the Milwaukee Brewers were in the AL Central. However, for some reason in 1998, the Milwaukee Brewers, who were owned by baseball's commissioner at the time, Bug Selig, were moved to the NL Central and no teams were moved from the NL to the AL. So there were 6 teams in the NL Central but only 4 teams in the AL West after the time. This was after adding the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. And it would stay unbalanced that way until 2013 when the Houston Astros were finally moved to the AL West
So I am a lifelong Cards fan with a Dad who is from St. Louis. I was 21 at this time and living on my own and luckily was friends with my downstairs neighbors. Still had to give them a nice batch of homemade desserts after. Also called my dad right after the game. Also my dad says that if the Cards have a winning record at the all star break then they are going into the post season. It seems to be true.
Thank you for this comment, was a great read! Love this little stat! Might be tough this season though.
As a lifelong Cardinals fan, most of this game felt like a typical ending to a Cardinals season: Give people hope and then do something stupid and lose. They just had some bad plays early on (not just Freese missing the catch) that just made it feel like they were already done.
Then it started to feel like someone found a genie and wished for the Cardinals to win. It felt like Texas did everything right and should have won, but then the genie would work its magic and make the Cards score. Like, if you sold it as a script no one would believe it would be possible.
5:07 - Nice catch again Damo. You have stumbled upon a quirk, albeit a relatively brief one, in the history of league and divisional alignment and scheduling. The Astros actually started in 1962 in the National League. We'll get to them later but the first thing I have to touch on is the presence of the Brewers in that list and the series of events that led to that and that would eventually see the Astros switch to the American League. Prior to MLB last expanding in 1998, there were 28 teams in each league with 5 teams in each league's eastern and central divisions and 4 teams in each league's western division and, most importantly, an even number of teams in each league. They had only just started playing "interleague" games (games between teams from opposite leagues) in 1997, but those games and series were scattered and mainly to allow for local rivals in opposite leagues to play each other at least once a year (Mets/Yankees, Dodgers/Angels, Giants/A's, etc.). In order to keep interleague games a thing but on the rare side, they decided to allow one new team into each league for expansion (the Tampa Bay Rays (then Devil Rays) into the American League and the Arizona Diamondbacks into the National League) but shift the Milwaukee Brewers from the American League where they had been since their inception in 1969 to the National League to keep an even number of teams in each league; 16 National and 14 American. This had the knock-on effect of having 6 teams in the NL Central and 4 Teams in the AL West and 5 in all the other divisions (the Rays joined the AL East and pushed the Tigers to the AL Central to occupy the spot left by the Brewers, the D-Backs joined the NL West, and the Brewers joined the Astros in the NL Central). This was odd but worked okay enough for a few years (except for the fact that the American League West was often awful) but then the powers that be fully merged the leagues into one entity in 2000 and then, eventually, wanted to see divisional parity and an expansion of interleague games because it both were popular and the latter a money-maker. In 2013, they accomplished this by shifting the Astros to the AL West which made everything nice and tidy (and help boon their success over the next 10 years).
7:55 - This was the case from 2003 to 2016. (If you think THIS is dumb, home field used to just alternate between leagues. As has been the case with every all-star game in every sport since the 90's, the MLB All-Star Game had been losing prominence due to increased interleague play, better national TV and internet coverage of the games and stars, and the players caring less and less about actually playing in it. Then, in 2002, the game ended in a tie when, after 11 innings, both teams ran out of pitchers. The game was called by then-commissioner Bud Selig in front of his home-town crowd in Milwaukee. Selig took the whole situation pretty personally and vowed to make the All-Star game count. He borrowed an idea that had been floated around to make the All-Star Game determine home field advantage in the World Series and we were off. It didn't make the players play more or any harder in the game but it did make the fans of contenders pay attention more but it was still dumb so they did away with it for 2017. Now it's just the team with the best regular season record regardless of league seed (just like the NBA and NHL do it).
17:43 - Singles, doubles, and triples refer to the number of bases the batter reached not the number of runs scored on the play. If you want to add in the number of runs scored you say x-run _____. In this case it was a 2-run triple.
17:50 - They didn't come in, they were pretty deep to try and prevent exactly what happened. It's just that Cruz in right field was not as deep as the other 2 outfielders (not sure if that was negligence or due to the fact that they didn't think Freese had that much opposite-field power).
20:30 - The most epic part of that commentary was that the play-by-play man, Joe Buck, a legend in his own right, was the son of another legendary broadcaster Jack Buck. Both had their share of legendary calls especially in the baseball postseason and World Series but one of Jack's most famous calls was of the walk-off home run by Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series. As THAT home run sailed over the wall, Jack famously said, "We'll see you, tomorrow night" in that very same cadence that Joe did it here. Jack passed away in 2002 and I can see Joe wanting to make that same call if the situation came up where there was a big Game 6 walk off but to do it in honor of his own dad (and with the team that Jack did regular season games for and that Joe grew up watching, the Cardinals) made it that much more special.
As a cardinal fan I loved watching you guys react to this
The Astros used to be in the National League. Also the Brewers used to be in the American League. I believe the Brewers jumped to the NL when Inter-League play started, so that there would be even number of teams in each league to make scheduling games easier, 14 in the AL and 16 in the NL. Before Inter-League play began the only time the AL would play against in the NL would be in the World Series and All-Star Game. When they added more Inter-League scheduling, the Astros moved to the AL making it 15 teams in both leagues.
thank u for reacting to this. one of my favorite moments as a Cardinals fan.
When you guys finally get to your first Jon Bois video, "222-0: PRETTY GOOD" is the video you want to start with bar-none. It's about the most lopsided college football game of all time, between Georgia Tech and Cumberland College. GA Tech won 222-0, and the story of the game is told beautifully by Jon Bois. Trust me, it's worth it.
This sounds like a really good one Pete. Thanks for this. Been meaning to do a Jon Bois poll on Discord. Definitely is on our radar, thanks 👍
Die hard Cards fan! This is one of my favorite! Coming to London to watch them play! Go Cards!
The “we will see you tomorrow night” call was in honor of the announcers (joe buck) father Jack Buck who had made the same call 20 years to the day for a game 6 walk off home run by Kirby Puckett in Minnesota.
This was the greatest game I had watched at this point and it may still be. If you can find a good video on the 2014 AL wild card game with the royals and A’s please watch it. That was the game that may have beaten this for drama.
Love your videos and look forward to more baseball in the future.
Ah, didn’t know this Travis. Thank you so much for this context, really great to know. Makes the moment even more poignant 🙏
This is probably the greatest game of baseball that has ever been played
14:30 Just imagine what it was like just a year ago when the pitcher had unlimited attempts to pick someone off. It was done for mind game reasons. The pitcher wanted to make sure the runner knows he can't be too eager to inch towards the next base. Now you have to get him out on the 3rd attempt or it's a free base.
Im just outside st louis. I was hanging out with a rangers fan. It was such a great game lol.
This will always be my favorite baseball game from start to finish. Granted I may be a little biased as a Cardinals fan, but there's just something special about it all around
As a long time Rangers fan, I absolutely hate this series. In all fairness, it was an incredible World Series, but this one hurts. A lot.
To put it in some perspective, for us Cardinals fanatics, this was our "AGUEROOOOOO!!!!!" moment.
i was suprised when Houston switched from the NL to the AL.. i am still not used to it
A ‘triple’ means the runner gets to 3rd base. A double, 2nd base & a single, to 1st base. It doesn’t have anything to do with the number of runs scored.
He hit a ‘two run triple.’
Single, double, and triple refer to the number of bases the batter takes on their hit, not runs batted in (RBIs). 1st- single, 2nd-double, 3rd-triple. So at the end of that play he was standing on third.
Guys remember, Baseball is a marathon, not a Sprint, like NFL. Anything can happen over 6 months. Good teams can go cold, average teams can get hot. This is what makes the game and season so much fun.
I would definitely recommend watching Secret Base’s video about Game 162 of the 2011 season as well for more about how the Cardinals got here (and how absolutely crazy the end of the regular season was)
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As a cards fan living in stl his entire life oh man…
When the Astros were in the NL, there were 16 NL teams and only 14 AL teams, the NL central had 6 teams like you saw and the AL west, where they play now only had 4 teams, it was this way because throughout most of the season, you only played you own league in the regular season, when they moved to 15 teams in each league, now there always has to be a NL team playing a AL team, the two leagues were generally considered different leagues with different rules