stevec1989 Im a Rays fan and we won but after all this time I get almost as much joy from the look of disappointment on Papelbon’s face as he’s walking off the mound in Baltimore.
Well who cares if the yanks blew that lead? There was nothing to play for for them. But wouldn't it have been more satisfying to knock them out of the playoffs? Although, I have my own memory as a fan of being almost as happy seeing a rival collapse. All I have to say is I'm a phillies fan the day was September 30, 2007. The mets were the rivals. That was the second greatest day I've had as a Phillies fan. Obviously, October 29, 2008 will always be number one. I'm only 31 so I wasn't around for the 1980 title.
Driven in to right well at the wall it isss off the wall here comes pujouils rounding third and headed for home is Bergman freeze has tied 7-7 unbelievable
This was the best night in Rays history. At the beginning of September, they had a 0.1% chance of making the Wild Card. Sure enough, Boston collapsed throughout the month and lost game 162. Best night in Tampa Bay Baseball history and will never be forgotten. Go Rays.
Right! Even young a Freeman, I was happy for him & the Braves for winning a WS. Baseball was littered with great baseball players. It's not name anymore
Carp was such a bulldog that season for the Cardinals. He endured a rough regular season. Then comes the late season heroics. The one to nothing shutout of the Phillies in the divisional round was just a thing of beauty. A man refusing to lose.
this video alone proves why baseball is the best sport of them all. You don't see any late season magic like this in basketball. The dramatic race for the 8-seed.
Jake Taylor There are possibilities for scenarios like these in both football and hockey (I would know, since I experienced one as a Bruins fan in 2016. It wasn't pleasant.)
Jake Taylor Baseball is my favorite sport, but I have to disagree with you there. The NBA's Western Conference playoff seedings from like 2007-2014-ish were almost never settled til the very last game of the season. The competition hasn't been as tight lately, but there were some really fun final nights in recent history.
That is by far the most stressful night as a Cardinals I’ve ever been through other than Game 6! I stayed up all night watching that Phillies-Braves game, and as soon as that double play was turned, I broke down in tears! Such a wild night! I highly doubt there will ever be another game 162 night like that one!
When you realize that in 2021 on the 10 year aniversary Rays and Red Sox are having the same battle this time for division title Also the AL East standings heading into September in 2011 and the standings now in 2021 are almost exactly the same Only difference is that the Rays and Yankees switched spots but i have a strong feeling that this division would have a 2011 2.0 for division title
Yes I am! As I Cardinals fan, I'm pumped about Trevor Story's homer over the Brewers tonight! I haven't been so excited about a non-Cardinals win since the Phillies' double play in this video. :)
I had no particular interest in this night as my team had been long since eliminated. But I stopped on one of the games and decided I would watch for a while. *WOW!* The greatest multi-game channel-changing adrenaline-fest EVER.
Gotta be one of if not the best seasons of all time in sports history period. I’m a Cardinals fan so I may be a bit biased but how can a baseball fan not be amazed by everything that happened? There’s 162 games in a season yet it came down to the last game for so many teams to be guaranteed a playoff spot and for so many teams to be guaranteed out of the playoffs. Crazy.
I remember watching these games in the common room of my college dorm. My roomates were a Red Sox fan and a Rays fan, and it made that night so much wilder and amazing. I hope I never forget that night
I live in St. Louis and that was incredible what the Cardinals did. They were 10 games out of the Playoffs on August 27th and made it, not only to the Playoffs, but they won the 2011 World Series.
On August 31, the only way for the Cardinals to make the postseason was for them to be the best team in the NL and the Braves to be the absolute worst. That's exactly what happened.
Really, what caused the Braves collapse was basically their entire pitching staff getting hurt. It was like every starter save for Tim Hudson got injured in September. They just couldn't catch a break.
As a Yankees fan, this was the one time I rooted against them. The Red Sox losing out and having that epic collapse to miss the playoffs completely is one of my fondest memories of this decade of baseball.
I remember it like it was yesterday, anytime we beat the Yankees it's awesome, but for this night to go the way it went, most epic regular season game of this rays fans life lol
I remember watching the Yankees-Rays game and Yankees pitchers were just throwing a bp session lol it was frustrating to watch since Rays batters couldn't connect other than Longoria
@@tamahawk175 really? They had Dan Jonhson, a dude batting like .150 with occasional power down to 2 strikes in the bottom of the 9th. The red sox can only blame themselves for allowing 3 straight hits with 2 outs in the 9th of their game
I was there that night. We almost left in the 6th inning. An old lady friend of ours we brought to the game, said, “No! Let’s stay. We’re coming back. I can feel it.” I thought, “What does she know about baseball.” But my wife and I agreed to stay anyway. The rest is history. I have had major back surgery 3 months earlier. On Longo’s walk-off I was jumping up and down holding on to my crutches for dear life... I love the Rays. I watch videos of that moment and still get all chocked up.
@@gochocitizen that’s awesome man and I’ve had nights to back then where I was like man let’s just leave we are getting our butts spanked and sure enough Longoria, Upton and Zobrist come through in the clutch when we needed them most, I will really miss that Tampa bay team we once had they were spectacular just sad they never could win the World Series together
@@Demon-Speeding that sure was one heck of a team. I love everything about the organization. Even the radio and TV announcers. Last year’s team (2020) was spectacular as well. Wish we had kept Blake Snell and Charlie Morton. We need a couple of good pitchers.
@@gochocitizen it sure was man I miss those times but we do have a great team again currently but I do agree we needed to keep some good pitchers and yeah and I to really like the announcers
this was such an awesome night, i remember i had all the games on multiple screens, the wildcards being decided on the very last day of the season was something great to watch. too bad such event would never happen again, glad i could witness it!
Was at the Braves game that night. Freddie Freeman firing the batting helmet into the ground is an image forever burned into my memory. I had no idea that Pete Orr, who was a bit of a cult hero among Braves fans, had scored the tying run for the Phils in the 9th.
I was focused on Rangers/Angels early on because Texas had to win to secure home field in the ALDS. After they won, I then switched to NYY/TB & BOS/BAL to see who TEX would face.
This was the single greatest night of baseball we’ve ever seen. Nothing has come close since. It’s 2020 and baseball is almost unrecognizable compared to 2011. Way too many rule changes. I was a junior in college watching this coverage in my dorm room. Great times.
As a Cardinals fan, this was the best season of all time. I started 2011 fighting for my life against cancer - and my reward for surviving was seeing the magical game 6 and the subsequent championship season...
I remember the Braves were like 8 games up in the wild card at the begging of September and chokes badly letting the Cards win it in the last day and the WS later.
cangri1788 in August the cardinals where 10 and a half games out of a wild card spot. 2011 was a magical year for baseball. Story book ending to the regular season and a sensational playoff run.
Seeing Fast Five ads in the beginning of that Phillies/Braves game and realizing that 3 movies in that franchise have come out since this night happened and that David Price has played for 3 more teams as well
Anyone remember going to school or work earlier that day and you couldn't stop thinking about what would happen later that night when these games started
Why? Take 2021 NL East title could come to final day 3 teams fighting And also NL 2nd WC spot getting interesting Padres are falling and Reds are coming for them+ Cards@ NL East teams that won't finish first
bowl now As Cardinals fan, I agree. I can’t even imagine how the whole playoffs would’ve turned out had this day went the other way. Also World Series Game 6, probably the best birthday present I can ask for since the day the game was played on (Oct. 27), was my birthday.
And then the next year, the second wild card was added. Don't know if I like it or not. One thing's for sure, had there been a second wild card in 2011, the last night of the regular season would have been nowhere near as epic or meaningful. That being said, go Cards! Most incredible title run I've ever seen in any sport.
Winning the World Series 10 years later makes the pain from this historic September collapse ease a bit but still a missing 2011 white Wild Card banner at Truist Park.
I wonder which team got the worst end of this night? The Red Sox letting a team with less < 1% of making the playoffs at the beginning of September. Or the Braves who let the eventual champions into the playoffs? Your thoughts?
I'm late to this, but I loved watching Boston's season end on this night. I also loved how so many of them sold out and rooted for the Yankees when Yankees wins were what they needed to survive. (I particularly loved watching their spirits break as they wore Yankees gear and rooted for their hated rivals.) As a Yankees fan, when the situation was reversed, and we needed Boston wins to make it to the playoffs, I never shifted my position. A day with a Boston Red Sox loss is a good day for baseball. I know I'm gonna get some hate for this comment, but I stand by my team.
No lie. When me my dad and brother were watching this we jumped up and down and cheered when longoria hit that homer. Mind u we're NYY fans so we knew once we lost Boston was out and blew their 9 game lead and missed the playoffs. Only time I was glad the yankees lost.
Just sent this to my son, a Rays fan. This Towson boy, now in FL, commented, “How about Chris Davis’ double. Of course he pulls up limping!” How much money did he stolen while re-habbing?
Chicago White Sox fan for my entire life. But also love the game of baseball. I was watching on TV that night as this played out. The ranks right up there with all the crazy stories about baseball that I read when I was a kid
I was at the Red Sox vs Orioles game, they were in the lead, then it got rain delayed. I had to work the next day and lived 2 hours away from balitmore. Anyway I figued the Sox had the game and that yankees were gonna beat Tampa Bay so we left the stadium during the delay (after waiting an hour). On the drive home find out the game resumes my Red Sox lose and Tampa comes back. It was a very quiet ride home.
I will never forget that night at Tropicana, after de 3rd inning I wanted to leave, my then 8 year old son wanted one of the dippin' dots ice creams they sell in the tiny helmets, so I got him one at sat down while he ate it. Thank God he was with me, he's the reason I ended up staying through the most IMPROBABLE, IMPOSSIBLE and ultimately most exiting day in baseball history. What this video doesn't say, is that entering the month Tampa was 9 1/2 games behind Boston, all the Red Sox had to do was win 1 more, or Tampa to lose 1 more game during that month and it was over. But if I remember correctly, they lost 17 of their games INCLUDING that fateful 162. Tampa was 1/2 game behind entering the night, and NY got to an early 7-0 lead, I just thought there was no way that the baseball Gods would smile on Tampa that night like that. - Lester was pitching for Boston and then out of nowhere it started raining, and it rained long enough for Lester (their ACE) to cool off to not be able to get back on the mound - Dan Johnson hits a 2 out, 9 inning, bases empty Home Run to tie the game (he had hit like 100 for the season and only had 1 Home Run the entire year) - Longoria hits 2 Home Runs and has 4 RBI's even though he had been sick for a few days - And adding insult to injury it was a former Rays (Carl Crawford) who missed the last out for Boston that allowed the Orioles to win the game, a guy that Boston payen 170 million in a trade with THE RAYS! It was truly insane!
2011: Red Sox and Rays battle for Wild Card spot until the final night of season SEP 28 2011 2021: Red Sox and Rays will battle for division title that will only get decided on final night OCT 3 2021 On the 10 year aniversary Red Sox and Rays will do it again
That 100+ wins Phillies team helped the Cardinals by beating the braves, only to lose to the Cardinals in NLDS in 5 games with chris carpenter throwing a 1-0 shut out against roy halladay
One of the greatest nights in baseball. Ever. Someone needs to make a movie just about this night. Dan Johnson for Rays, .100 hitters, 2 outs, 2 strikes in the 9th. Hits a home-run for Rays to cap off a 7-0 comeback. Papelbon TWICE, one strike away from putting the Red Sox into the playoffs. Just an unreal night of baseball!
While that home run was awesome by Dan Johnson, there is absolutely no denying that the pitch thrown to him was a complete meatball right down the heart of the plate. Yankees were trying to lose so they didn't have to face Boston
I felt bad for the Braves. Their luck went completely south in September. Virtually all of their starting pitchers got injured: Jair Jurgens, Brandon Beachy, Tommy Hanson. There was NOBOdY left for the Braves to send out as a starter besides Tim Hudson.
And The Orioles wait until the last minute every year now to fill their bullpen. If I didn't know any better, I'd assume that they were losing on purpose for the draft picks.
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Literally the most awkward night as a Yankee fan. We all we’re like “....we blew a 7 run lead, but Boston’s out of the playoffs....nice..”
stevec1989 Im a Rays fan and we won but after all this time I get almost as much joy from the look of disappointment on Papelbon’s face as he’s walking off the mound in Baltimore.
Lol was it intentional ?
@MANCHESTER UNITED
so? this is a baseball channel, we don't care.
Wasn’t awkward for any yankee fan who knew the situation I was rotting for the yanks to blow that lead like crazy.
Well who cares if the yanks blew that lead? There was nothing to play for for them. But wouldn't it have been more satisfying to knock them out of the playoffs? Although, I have my own memory as a fan of being almost as happy seeing a rival collapse. All I have to say is I'm a phillies fan the day was September 30, 2007. The mets were the rivals. That was the second greatest day I've had as a Phillies fan. Obviously, October 29, 2008 will always be number one. I'm only 31 so I wasn't around for the 1980 title.
How there wasn’t a 30 for 30 about the end of the 2011 season and that WS, including the EPIC game 6, is beyond me.
I hope there is someday.
There really needs to be one
Only been 12 years. Often have to wait 20 years for things like that.
MLB Network made a documentary on it, Game 162
@@lovesgucci1and MLB network’s is better than anything espn would produce.
Little did anyone know what was waiting in Game 6 of that WS.
@Dusty Showbiz Freesus Christ
Driven in to right well at the wall it isss off the wall here comes pujouils rounding third and headed for home is Bergman freeze has tied 7-7 unbelievable
@@littletotandlittlebiscuit3146 you butchered that beyond belief
Derek J. Oh yuhhh I love me the cardinals
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭why is Nelson Cruz so obese!?
This is the part of the 2011 Cardinals story that not enough people realize...down double digit games in September?! What a year...Go Cards!!
Its kinda happening again in 2021 with the current winnig streak the cards have.
Most improbable craziest run I'VE EVER SEEN
This was the best night in Rays history.
At the beginning of September, they had a 0.1% chance of making the Wild Card.
Sure enough, Boston collapsed throughout the month and lost game 162.
Best night in Tampa Bay Baseball history and will never be forgotten. Go Rays.
You’re welcome.
- Orioles fans
You're welcome
- Yankees fans
You're welcome
- Red Sox fans
You’re welcome.
- Blue Jays fans (we could’ve played better, maybe...)
I appriciate to Dan Johnson. His "season-saving homer" was really awesome.
Damn; Carpenter, Vladdy G, Scott Gomez, Chipper, Tony LaRussa, Jeter, Damon, Lester, Maddon with the Rays.
I miss this MLB
Pujols with the Cardinals as well
Tim Hudson ah man
LaRussa's back managing the White Sox!
Right! Even young a Freeman, I was happy for him & the Braves for winning a WS.
Baseball was littered with great baseball players. It's not name anymore
@@delongtom86 And now he's back for one last dance.
The Orioles fans were just as happy that the Rays took that one. Hell of a night, even for a Marylander like me.
Season started out rough, but by then knew next year would be better.
Carp was such a bulldog that season for the Cardinals. He endured a rough regular season. Then comes the late season heroics. The one to nothing shutout of the Phillies in the divisional round was just a thing of beauty. A man refusing to lose.
Dude was money
this video alone proves why baseball is the best sport of them all. You don't see any late season magic like this in basketball. The dramatic race for the 8-seed.
Jake Taylor hockey is better
Jake Taylor There are possibilities for scenarios like these in both football and hockey (I would know, since I experienced one as a Bruins fan in 2016. It wasn't pleasant.)
Jake Taylor Baseball is my favorite sport, but I have to disagree with you there. The NBA's Western Conference playoff seedings from like 2007-2014-ish were almost never settled til the very last game of the season. The competition hasn't been as tight lately, but there were some really fun final nights in recent history.
Mylo the Zoo-loving Scientist The point is that a legitimate contender is almost always going to be solidly in the playoff picture.
Christopher Johnson This is true. Fair point.
That is by far the most stressful night as a Cardinals I’ve ever been through other than Game 6! I stayed up all night watching that Phillies-Braves game, and as soon as that double play was turned, I broke down in tears! Such a wild night! I highly doubt there will ever be another game 162 night like that one!
As a rays fan this is still one of my favorite nights of my life besides making the World Series
When you realize that in 2021 on the 10 year aniversary Rays and Red Sox are having the same battle this time for division title
Also the AL East standings heading into September in 2011 and the standings now in 2021 are almost exactly the same
Only difference is that the Rays and Yankees switched spots but i have a strong feeling that this division would have a 2011 2.0 for division title
yes. That 3-1 win with david price closing the game.
you couldn't write this script........I remember watching these games!!! what a night!
I hope the creator of this video got paid.
obviously. It's probably something like media content position under mlb
I made this video and the MLB said I had no right to use it and so I cant do anything about it
Drew Kahn exactly this video or a version, something like it but not quite similar?
SeñorTortas this is the exact video posted like 5 years ago. Look it up and it's the exact same
Nick Perez Final Day of 2011 Baseball Season by antigov84. This ain't right
Anybody else watching this as the 2021 season comes to an end?
yep i am
Yes I am! As I Cardinals fan, I'm pumped about Trevor Story's homer over the Brewers tonight! I haven't been so excited about a non-Cardinals win since the Phillies' double play in this video. :)
R. Philip Grizzard I was at Busch when he hit it
@@Mike-cm8vz Awesome - was there a reaction from the remaining crowd?
R. Philip Grizzard yes everyone was yelling Rockieeeeees and cheering it was minutes after we lost
I had no particular interest in this night as my team had been long since eliminated. But I stopped on one of the games and decided I would watch for a while. *WOW!* The greatest multi-game channel-changing adrenaline-fest EVER.
Gotta be one of if not the best seasons of all time in sports history period. I’m a Cardinals fan so I may be a bit biased but how can a baseball fan not be amazed by everything that happened? There’s 162 games in a season yet it came down to the last game for so many teams to be guaranteed a playoff spot and for so many teams to be guaranteed out of the playoffs. Crazy.
The best mlb the show intro so far, in mlb 12
Yep
yeah that and mlb 13 the show has amazing intro
Worst for a rangers fan
I remember a few cycled and whenever this one came up I always watched it through, it's so amazing
Hahaha totally man! Unforgettable.
7 years late
6
So true
6 lol
and im still salty 6.5 years later
At least you're not a Rangers fan. ;)
I remember watching these games in the common room of my college dorm. My roomates were a Red Sox fan and a Rays fan, and it made that night so much wilder and amazing. I hope I never forget that night
I live in St. Louis and that was incredible what the Cardinals did. They were 10 games out of the Playoffs on August 27th and made it, not only to the Playoffs, but they won the 2011 World Series.
On August 31, the only way for the Cardinals to make the postseason was for them to be the best team in the NL and the Braves to be the absolute worst.
That's exactly what happened.
SB Nation
Really, what caused the Braves collapse was basically their entire pitching staff getting hurt. It was like every starter save for Tim Hudson got injured in September. They just couldn't catch a break.
And then the Cardinals crashed the postseason party
@@KingDunk-ht2lb Which for me, they didn't crash the party, they partied.
2nd craziest night of baseball I’ve ever seen! And the craziest would come only a month later in Game 6 of the WS 🤟🏻
The Rangers were one strike away from winning the world series
@@randomman3321 twice
Best. Night. Ever. Indeed + As a Cardinal fan, that postseason later (2011) was the sweetest.
11 years later and its still warms this O's fan's heart to see Boston go home. Made doubly satifying to see NY lose. What a great night of baseball.
I totally forgot about this day in Baseball, but the video sure brought this crazy night back to my memory.
As a Yankees fan, this was the one time I rooted against them. The Red Sox losing out and having that epic collapse to miss the playoffs completely is one of my fondest memories of this decade of baseball.
So are the yankees blowing a 3-0 lead in the 2004 ALCS
@@f-4ace667 and the Red Sox blowing a 14 game lead in 1978
As a Red Sox fan, this was the only time I wanted the Yankees to win
Don't mind me, just watching baseball videos to get me through this tough time with no baseball. 😭
this was like the best non-playoff day of baseball ever
Amen
I remember thinking Texeira didn't get the memo that he was supposed to lose this game. Luckily Scott Proctor and Golson got the memo.
I remember it like it was yesterday, anytime we beat the Yankees it's awesome, but for this night to go the way it went, most epic regular season game of this rays fans life lol
I remember watching the Yankees-Rays game and Yankees pitchers were just throwing a bp session lol it was frustrating to watch since Rays batters couldn't connect other than Longoria
they didnt want the red sox to win, once they saw the final score they were just throwing fastballs.
@@tamahawk175 really? They had Dan Jonhson, a dude batting like .150 with occasional power down to 2 strikes in the bottom of the 9th. The red sox can only blame themselves for allowing 3 straight hits with 2 outs in the 9th of their game
@@acruzro95 do you just not care about timestamps?
Longo’s walk off home run will always be one of the greatest if not the greatest Tampa bay rays moment of all time
I was there that night. We almost left in the 6th inning. An old lady friend of ours we brought to the game, said, “No! Let’s stay. We’re coming back. I can feel it.” I thought, “What does she know about baseball.” But my wife and I agreed to stay anyway. The rest is history. I have had major back surgery 3 months earlier. On Longo’s walk-off I was jumping up and down holding on to my crutches for dear life... I love the Rays. I watch videos of that moment and still get all chocked up.
@@gochocitizen that’s awesome man and I’ve had nights to back then where I was like man let’s just leave we are getting our butts spanked and sure enough Longoria, Upton and Zobrist come through in the clutch when we needed them most, I will really miss that Tampa bay team we once had they were spectacular just sad they never could win the World Series together
@@gochocitizen and that’s hilarious man and hope that back surgery went well and hopefully the excitement from Longo didn’t mess anything up😂
@@Demon-Speeding that sure was one heck of a team. I love everything about the organization. Even the radio and TV announcers. Last year’s team (2020) was spectacular as well. Wish we had kept Blake Snell and Charlie Morton. We need a couple of good pitchers.
@@gochocitizen it sure was man I miss those times but we do have a great team again currently but I do agree we needed to keep some good pitchers and yeah and I to really like the announcers
The Trop looks weird with people in it
A lot of them left after the 7th inning though. Dummies.
Royale Grizzlies 😂
😂😂😂
May be a rays fan, but the trop just looks weird in general. Stinks to have such a mediocre filed. :/
Me, from 2020: baseball stadiums look weird with people in them.
this was such an awesome night, i remember i had all the games on multiple screens, the wildcards being decided on the very last day of the season was something great to watch.
too bad such event would never happen again, glad i could witness it!
It may happen this year
You can't play the loser broadcast on the Orioles game, Gary Thorne!!! Gary Thorne!!! That red sox guy sounds like joe buck
Nabre Labre don’t u dare insult don orsilo
Agreed! Thorne's call was far superior!
Thorne's was great, it's just he botched the call when he said Andino's single was headed into "right" field when it was clearly to left lmao
I'm just talking about the final call of course
As a Rangers fan, it hurts even when I hear “2011” and “baseball” in the same sentence. 5:30 made me puke.
Was at the Braves game that night. Freddie Freeman firing the batting helmet into the ground is an image forever burned into my memory.
I had no idea that Pete Orr, who was a bit of a cult hero among Braves fans, had scored the tying run for the Phils in the 9th.
I’m a Rangers fan and I still get chills seeing the score between the O’s and Sox
Had all games going at once haha one of the best nights of my life. Thanks baseball!!
I was focused on Rangers/Angels early on because Texas had to win to secure home field in the ALDS. After they won, I then switched to NYY/TB & BOS/BAL to see who TEX would face.
This was the single greatest night of baseball we’ve ever seen. Nothing has come close since. It’s 2020 and baseball is almost unrecognizable compared to 2011. Way too many rule changes. I was a junior in college watching this coverage in my dorm room. Great times.
And it keeps on changing. At least we will recognize the defenses more this year.
8 years ago today...Damn how time flies past you...never forget this day.
As a Cardinals fan, this was the best season of all time. I started 2011 fighting for my life against cancer - and my reward for surviving was seeing the magical game 6 and the subsequent championship season...
I remember the Braves were like 8 games up in the wild card at the begging of September and chokes badly letting the Cards win it in the last day and the WS later.
cangri1788 in August the cardinals where 10 and a half games out of a wild card spot. 2011 was a magical year for baseball. Story book ending to the regular season and a sensational playoff run.
Wasn’t this the same year of the legendary “infield fly game” with the braves and cards. I’m a braves fan and watching that game pissed me off.
yep... lots of things went in our favor during the last month of the season and then postseason
Vlogs and games With Hunter that was 2012 or something I believe
Shadowflare yeah it was the 2012 wildcard game
and later this lead on to one of the greatest WS ever and the legend of David Freese
Seeing Fast Five ads in the beginning of that Phillies/Braves game and realizing that 3 movies in that franchise have come out since this night happened and that David Price has played for 3 more teams as well
Well one more Fast and Furious movie is coming out this summer.
The final day of the 2021 regular season may be even crazier with a four way tiebreaker possible in the AL Wild Card and the NL West still undecided.
Giants might close it out like they did to the pads in 2010
One of the greatest seasons ever.
what a crazy end to the regular season
Wht a night tht was tht particular night. The atmosphere was great for baseball during the last day of the 2011 regular season
Craziest! Day! Ever!
Yessir. This was the best night in baseball I can ever remember. It was fun.
Watching after the 2019 AL wild card game! Rays Up!
the 2019 NL Wild card game was lit.
Anyone remember going to school or work earlier that day and you couldn't stop thinking about what would happen later that night when these games started
I will always remember this night. And I'm an orioles fan which is sad to say now lol.
The craziest night in baseball history and also a heartbreaking night
I miss these days. I love the wild-card game but ya can't script awesome finishes like this.
Why? Take 2021
NL East title could come to final day 3 teams fighting
And also NL 2nd WC spot getting interesting Padres are falling and Reds are coming for them+ Cards@ NL East teams that won't finish first
I'm a longtime Cardinals fan and to see them winniing it all in 2011 was amazing. It was definitely a miracle season.
best part about 2011. St Louis won the world series! That was by far one of the best playoffs in baseball I have ever seen
bowl now As Cardinals fan, I agree. I can’t even imagine how the whole playoffs would’ve turned out had this day went the other way. Also World Series Game 6, probably the best birthday present I can ask for since the day the game was played on (Oct. 27), was my birthday.
Which hr was more clutch, Longoria’s 8th inning hr or Dan Johnson’s game tying hr
Dan Johnson bc he was atrocious that year and he did it with 2 outs and 2 strikes
Damon Rosania agreed, his OPS+ was just 11!
Dan Johnson no doubt. Man came to the plate with literally one job to do and he got it done
Longoria more important becasue it actually gave us a chance. But dan johnson. That dude was batting like .150
That was the MOST exciting night in baseball.
And then the next year, the second wild card was added. Don't know if I like it or not. One thing's for sure, had there been a second wild card in 2011, the last night of the regular season would have been nowhere near as epic or meaningful. That being said, go Cards! Most incredible title run I've ever seen in any sport.
Winning the World Series 10 years later makes the pain from this historic September collapse ease a bit but still a missing 2011 white Wild Card banner at Truist Park.
comeback kids of the century for the cards. down 15 games in august, coming all the way back to win the title in October. what a team!
Glover I agree and I’m a rangers fan
I knew they weren't catching the Brewers for the division but if they somehow can get a wild card spot then it's on.
The wildest night in baseball ever
10 years later, this Rays fan has never forgotten that night
And 7 years later yankees own price😂
@@clintfowler3856 Imagine being relevant for one decade and ignoring the other ten
@@joshuawynne686 Imagine living in the past and not the present to wipe your tears.
I wonder which team got the worst end of this night?
The Red Sox letting a team with less < 1% of making the playoffs at the beginning of September. Or the Braves who let the eventual champions into the playoffs?
Your thoughts?
reid craig I’d vote Braves but it’s a toss up.
O's could have rolled over, instead they played as if it was their World Series game 7.
2011: Boston loses a wildcard spot to Tampa Bay.
2020: Boston loses Tom Brady to Tampa Bay.
2021: Tom Brady wins Super Bowl with Tampa Bay.
Best night of baseball ever!
I'm late to this, but I loved watching Boston's season end on this night. I also loved how so many of them sold out and rooted for the Yankees when Yankees wins were what they needed to survive. (I particularly loved watching their spirits break as they wore Yankees gear and rooted for their hated rivals.) As a Yankees fan, when the situation was reversed, and we needed Boston wins to make it to the playoffs, I never shifted my position. A day with a Boston Red Sox loss is a good day for baseball.
I know I'm gonna get some hate for this comment, but I stand by my team.
OCT 3RD 2021 WILL BE SN EVEN CRAZIER NIGHT CONSIDER IN THE AL 4 TEAMS FIGHT FOR 2 WILD CARD SPOTS AND IT'S GOING DOWN TO THE WIRE
Daily reminder that Game 6 of the 2011 World Series is one of, if not the best World Series games of all time.
No lie. When me my dad and brother were watching this we jumped up and down and cheered when longoria hit that homer. Mind u we're NYY fans so we knew once we lost Boston was out and blew their 9 game lead and missed the playoffs. Only time I was glad the yankees lost.
one of the great nights in the history of baseball
that said I would not have watched this video at all if I'd known the rangers would be featured 😥😥
This was absolutely huge for me , legendary night as a fan of baseball
The most shocking part of all this is the fact that Chris Davis got a hit
Just sent this to my son, a Rays fan. This Towson boy, now in FL, commented, “How about Chris Davis’ double. Of course he pulls up limping!”
How much money did he stolen while re-habbing?
there should be a 30 for 30 about this day
You're not kidding! That would be sweet. What if I told you...
Here's a theory.
Joe Girardi saw the Red Sox lost.
He's like
Let's screw these guys
Give up a homer to Longoria, okay?
Survival sunday is to epl what game 162 is to mlb
Chicago White Sox fan for my entire life. But also love the game of baseball. I was watching on TV that night as this played out. The ranks right up there with all the crazy stories about baseball that I read when I was a kid
As a Cardinals fan, that was a magical season
Any Tigers fans here
End of August Detroit is 11 games out of wild card do you think you cam have an amazing september?
God what a beautiful sport. what a day
The best night overall in MLB history, bar none. Individual teams may have had more memorable nights, but not overall.
Should have used the O’s call for that final play. Actually had some energy.
Now the Orioles became the hottest team in the league 11 years later they have the longest win streak in 23 years
That was 10 years ago today. Time flies.
The 2011 Cardinals had the most dramatic run of any team in baseball history.
Nothing better than watching the Yankees AND the Red Sox lose
10 years later like the episode of Deja Vu Game 162 of 2021 becomes more chaotic
Yep here we go again, came back to this video to hype me up
I was at the Red Sox vs Orioles game, they were in the lead, then it got rain delayed. I had to work the next day and lived 2 hours away from balitmore. Anyway I figued the Sox had the game and that yankees were gonna beat Tampa Bay so we left the stadium during the delay (after waiting an hour). On the drive home find out the game resumes my Red Sox lose and Tampa comes back. It was a very quiet ride home.
I will never forget that night at Tropicana, after de 3rd inning I wanted to leave, my then 8 year old son wanted one of the dippin' dots ice creams they sell in the tiny helmets, so I got him one at sat down while he ate it. Thank God he was with me, he's the reason I ended up staying through the most IMPROBABLE, IMPOSSIBLE and ultimately most exiting day in baseball history.
What this video doesn't say, is that entering the month Tampa was 9 1/2 games behind Boston, all the Red Sox had to do was win 1 more, or Tampa to lose 1 more game during that month and it was over. But if I remember correctly, they lost 17 of their games INCLUDING that fateful 162.
Tampa was 1/2 game behind entering the night, and NY got to an early 7-0 lead, I just thought there was no way that the baseball Gods would smile on Tampa that night like that.
- Lester was pitching for Boston and then out of nowhere it started raining, and it rained long enough for Lester (their ACE) to cool off to not be able to get back on the mound
- Dan Johnson hits a 2 out, 9 inning, bases empty Home Run to tie the game (he had hit like 100 for the season and only had 1 Home Run the entire year)
- Longoria hits 2 Home Runs and has 4 RBI's even though he had been sick for a few days
- And adding insult to injury it was a former Rays (Carl Crawford) who missed the last out for Boston that allowed the Orioles to win the game, a guy that Boston payen 170 million in a trade with THE RAYS!
It was truly insane!
2011: Red Sox and Rays battle for Wild Card spot until the final night of season SEP 28 2011
2021: Red Sox and Rays will battle for division title that will only get decided on final night OCT 3 2021
On the 10 year aniversary Red Sox and Rays will do it again
That 100+ wins Phillies team helped the Cardinals by beating the braves, only to lose to the Cardinals in NLDS in 5 games with chris carpenter throwing a 1-0 shut out against roy halladay
Yep, I remember that series. Phillies had a 4-0 lead in Game 2 and ended up losing 5-4 and that changed the entire course of the series.
@@drlee2 and ever since that postseason loss the Phillies have been in the tank. They've not recovered from it.
As a Braves fan, this really hurts. We had the division in 2011 until we threw it all away in September.
Ian Perry you guys were way behind the Phillies all year
Try being a rangers fan
If the Braves didn’t throw it away rangers would be world champs.tough year for rangers fans
you mean the Wild Card, they were never going to catch the 100+ game winning Phillies.
but they had a double digit lead in the Wild Card, and that was all but sewn up until Atlanta collapsed. Blame Kimbrel, he blew that 9th inning.
Best uear for me as fan
One of the greatest nights in baseball. Ever. Someone needs to make a movie just about this night. Dan Johnson for Rays, .100 hitters, 2 outs, 2 strikes in the 9th. Hits a home-run for Rays to cap off a 7-0 comeback. Papelbon TWICE, one strike away from putting the Red Sox into the playoffs. Just an unreal night of baseball!
While that home run was awesome by Dan Johnson, there is absolutely no denying that the pitch thrown to him was a complete meatball right down the heart of the plate. Yankees were trying to lose so they didn't have to face Boston
Red Sox collapse was the headliner but the Braves collapsed too. No one talked about that one much.
I felt bad for the Braves. Their luck went completely south in September. Virtually all of their starting pitchers got injured: Jair Jurgens, Brandon Beachy, Tommy Hanson. There was NOBOdY left for the Braves to send out as a starter besides Tim Hudson.
Same happening to the Padres this year
Tatis Jr was hurt and their promosing bullpen was also injured and dissapointing
You woulda thought the Orioles just won the world series celebrating lol
And the Orioles haven’t been relevant since
Neither have the Rays lol
LAX Aviation yeah I know. I’m not a rays fan
thiefswiller
Yeah..... never said you were.. just saying the Rays haven’t been relevant since either along with the O’s
And The Orioles wait until the last minute every year now to fill their bullpen. If I didn't know any better, I'd assume that they were losing on purpose for the draft picks.
Yeah that's true. I was at their comeback game against Detroit. That was great.