I will never forget watching all of these games live while this unfolded. It was a legendary night for baseball fans, even as a Yankee fan I remember that 2011 September and October very fondly
For Cardinals fans, this was the culmination of over a month of anxiety which started with bring 10 games back in the wild card. Every damn game after Sept 1st felt like a playoff game where if we didn't win our season was over, and to see the Braves lead over us get smaller and smaller is something I wish every fan could experience at least once. And after all of this, we still had the postseason to play. The 101 win Phillies with that killer rotation and lineup, then the Brewers who had our number all year long, and of course Texas with that terrifying offensive lineup. God Damn. What a team, what a ride indeed.
What's remarkable is that, at the beginning of September it looked like there would be NO exciting September baseball as it appeared all the division & wildcard races were practically locked up....but then for anyone who was paying attention, the wildcard races suddenly started peaking in interest; the Red Sox & Braves suddenly were playing lousy & the Cardinals & Rays suddenly kept winning games. With about a couple days left, you could sense that both wildcard races would go down to the wire. And they DID. Incredible. Those wildcard races helped preserve that 2011 season, which almost seemed rather mundane for most of that summer BEFORE September came around. Little did anyone know what was about to happen in September & October that year. 🙂
Excellent video! I hadn't realized how much cool stuff happened that night! I thought it was going to be Ten Cent Beer Night or Disco Demolition Night, but those were wild for other reasons.
Great script you wrote here. I really enjoyed being taken through the events of that night with the clock in the corner, it made me feel the tension as it happened. Wonderful presentation!
I was a senior in high school when this happened. I remember watching my Red Sox lose and immediately changed the channel to watch the Rays game, pissed I had to root for the Yankees. I’ll never forget that walk off shot from Longoria. I didn’t remember anything from the NL side that night, makes it even more wild with how the post season ended for the cardinals. Great video, thanks for taking me back
Great video. I either didn't realize or don't remember anything about the NL implications. That night I was following both the Rays and Red Sox and couldn't believe it. One of the most exciting nights of watching baseball and I say that as a Blue Jays fan.
Both AL and NL WC up for grabs all 4 games. thats what made that night so AMAZING. unforgettable!.... at least for me as a Cardinals fan, Rays are my 2nd favorite team.
I was working at Target Field that day and did my best to follow the other games while working the Twins game. After our game ended and I finished my job duties I continued to track the other games on my train ride back home. Longoria hit his dramatic homer at 12:03 but my phone battery died just minutes earlier before I could get home and I missed it. 🙁
I’m a huge Cardinals fan and in 2011 I was working for a St. Louis based aerospace company. The company had bought out a section of seats for Sunday Sept 11th and being it was the 9/11 anniversary my company was asked to give a representative to throw out the first pitch. It’s a long story but I was able to get that honor and it was the best day of my life lol! I’ll never forget that moment! Anyway my plants G.M. was a native of Atlanta and thus a huge Braves fan. We had been trading blows about our teams for WEEKS at that point. Obviously we are all aware of the sweep. On Monday morning since I was in production, I was at work a few hours before any office staff including the GM. I went around the whole plant and gathered up every broom I could find while was roughly 20+ big brooms and laid every one of them upright against his office door. 😂 Fortunately for me my job haha, he was a good sport about it! However I did have to eventually return all the brooms back to their spots.😢
Cardinals have Devil Magic…I’ve thought that for years as a Brewers fan. I really think, Molina and Carpenter have the most especially against the Brewers. I firmly believe they could be 80 years old and beat us.
As a Blue Jays fan, they'd already wrapped up their season earlier that afternoon so then I could settle back & watch how the wildcard races unfolded that night. Somehow, I think a lot of us felt that there would be some drama on that final night of the 2011 season...and even so, it STILL was one of the most thrilling nights ever for baseball. It made national headlines the very next day in fact. And then if that wasn't enough, the Cardinals took full advantage & went all the way to the World Series & defeated the Rangers( who'd beaten the Rays in the ALDS ). What a crazy final couple of months for baseball in 2011. Lots of fun though. 🙂
Having to root for the Yankees to win a game has to be the most painful feeling for a Red Sox fan. Also can we just talk about how much this last win kind of cost the Phillies in the long term? If the Braves and Cardinals end up tied and play game 163, the Cardinals maybe lose that game or at minimum alters their pitching situation in the NLDS if they win. Could've altered the course of the series in Phillies' favor, maybe get another title. Also maybe Ryan Howard never injures his Achilles and speeds up the Phillies inevitable collapse they took over a decade to recover from
I love that Kimbrel picture. Look at the board. It reminded me how insanely good he was before he was traded. 45 saves and 1.02 era!? That wasn't even an outlier, for his first hand full of years he was as dominating and as much of a shutdown closer as the game had ever seen. His stance when receiving the signs had to intimidate the hitters. I still remember the day the Braves traded him it was right around the day they broke my heart and traded Heyward and I gave up on watching them for a while.
I’m a cardinals fan and I got to see the cardinals finish off the brewers in Milwaukee before we won the World Series. The game got pushed back because the rangers had already won on the other side and I was already in Green Bay watching the Rams lose to the Packers. The Brewers fans were so mean to me and I was only 13, I will forever hate the Brewers because of how they treated me that night
My phillies made a massive mistake sweeping the braves. And i knew it was at the time. And we didnt have to either. Thecardinals were the hot team at the right time. Phillies lost 1-0 in game 5. Halladay vs carpenter. And the 5 year divison champ streak was over.
This was the spark for a 5 year run of relevance for the Orioles. The Red Sox got to feel 15 years of frustration from the fans that night, amd they would be rewarded somewhat the next season.
Only time in my life as a Yankees fan that I wanted the Yankees to lose because it would guarantee the Red Sox would miss the playoffs plus the Yankees already clinched the best record in the American league.
being from St Louis the 2011 season was amazing, then when Pujols left for LA and everyone was sad, but then many years later he came back and everyone forgave him
most epic mlb night ever the complete collapse of the red sox, yankees throwing that hanging pitch right after the red sox were eliminated, this shit was movie like
"Because baseball games can never start at a normal time"... watching this video after seeing what times the Twins 2023 AL Wild Card games start.... midweek- 13:38 😭🤣
As an Astros fan, it was hard to see Berkman win with the Cardinals. Also, you show images of Hunter Pence being on both the Astros and the Phillies. C'MON MAN!
As fan of the Boston Red Sox it is one of the worst night but the Beer and Chicken sox of 2011 deserve not to make the playoffs due to that epic September collapse. That unfortunately led to the firing of Terry Francona and a roller coaster of a decade plus with 2 world series titles sandwich with several last place finishes.
Nights like this one is why I am really glad that the league expanded its playoff field. And this wasn't the only one - this year, (for example) without it, how many games are rendered moot once we hit Labor Day? It's down to the wire and we still have a lot of very meaningful games. I like it!
Nights like these in 2011 are why you SHOULDN’T expand the playoffs. I’d much prefer very good teams potentially fight for fewer postseason spots. Now it’s too watered down and I don’t pay attention to the regular season anymore.
I look at it from a different perspective. By giving us the playoff format that we have now the last day isn’t quite as exciting anymore. In this scenario can’t happen anymore. It also makes the playoffs less prestigious because they’re easier to get into.
If only the 2012 Braves had played in Yankee Stadium that "infield fly" would have been a game tying home run. (That's my comment on both the ridiculously stupid call by the ump and how it's a bit unfair how MLB allowed such short porches (combined with normal low fences) to be built only in the Yankees Stadium. I was at that game and to this day I truly believe the umpire who as you know only are added to the outfield in post season games completely forgot he wasn't at the normal spot in the infield because there is no other excuse. Afterall that rule was implemented to keep infielders from letting easy pop ups fall to throw out multiple runners and that one was so far out they couldn't have possibly thrown anyone out.
26 players on an MLB roster. 8 teams. And somehow this guy got 320 players……. 🤔 I know there’s 40 men on the roster but those 40 men aren’t on all in the MLB, nor are they in the dugout. 208 players bud
Is this about one team one game? Maybe a wild night but I got something for you if you want wild. Watch the 1980 NLCS. Phillies astros. Pick from 4 outta 5 game series. 4 went extras all incredible never die teams
Fun fact: that walkoff homerun by the rays would’ve only been a homerun at Tropicana field
I knew the second it came off the bat it was heading for that low wall in left field
Wow
crazy how some fields you can hit a dinger and not get it over and in some hit it not as hard but still get a homer
I will never forget watching all of these games live while this unfolded. It was a legendary night for baseball fans, even as a Yankee fan I remember that 2011 September and October very fondly
one of the best baseball history vids ive ever watched
Great summary and editing. AGREED!
Ong
You're not a Braves or Red Sox fan then? Though both teams have at least won a World Series since then.
@@stevencooke6451 I’m a sox fan
True!!!!
from 2004-2016 baseball was just too great, probably some of the greatest baseball ever played in my opinion
I agree.
I wish Chris Carpenters 2011 post season was talked about more, dude looked like Bob Gibson on the mound and sacrificed his arm for it
Carp vs. Halladay in the NLDS was an all-time pitcher's duel.
As a Cardinals fan, that day and the month leading up to it and of course the playoffs after i were absolute magic.
Damn, I hate being a Rangers fan.
As a rays fan I remember watching every game with my mom. Magical time in my life
For Cardinals fans, this was the culmination of over a month of anxiety which started with bring 10 games back in the wild card. Every damn game after Sept 1st felt like a playoff game where if we didn't win our season was over, and to see the Braves lead over us get smaller and smaller is something I wish every fan could experience at least once. And after all of this, we still had the postseason to play. The 101 win Phillies with that killer rotation and lineup, then the Brewers who had our number all year long, and of course Texas with that terrifying offensive lineup. God Damn. What a team, what a ride indeed.
Then they had to go ruin it the next year with that wild card game gimmick.
@JohnSmith-zw8vp I loved it. We made Braves fans cry that year. Two years in a row we eliminated them. Also 2019 lol
What's remarkable is that, at the beginning of September it looked like there would be NO exciting September baseball as it appeared all the division & wildcard races were practically locked up....but then for anyone who was paying attention, the wildcard races suddenly started peaking in interest; the Red Sox & Braves suddenly were playing lousy & the Cardinals & Rays suddenly kept winning games. With about a couple days left, you could sense that both wildcard races would go down to the wire. And they DID. Incredible. Those wildcard races helped preserve that 2011 season, which almost seemed rather mundane for most of that summer BEFORE September came around. Little did anyone know what was about to happen in September & October that year. 🙂
That was one magical night. I'll never forget it.
This was awesome… remember 2011 season fondly, as Rays fan, and going to game 161 and 162
Excellent video! I hadn't realized how much cool stuff happened that night!
I thought it was going to be Ten Cent Beer Night or Disco Demolition Night, but those were wild for other reasons.
Great script you wrote here. I really enjoyed being taken through the events of that night with the clock in the corner, it made me feel the tension as it happened. Wonderful presentation!
i remember staying up watching MLB network until the last minute, that was a good day
I was a senior in high school when this happened. I remember watching my Red Sox lose and immediately changed the channel to watch the Rays game, pissed I had to root for the Yankees. I’ll never forget that walk off shot from Longoria. I didn’t remember anything from the NL side that night, makes it even more wild with how the post season ended for the cardinals. Great video, thanks for taking me back
No doubt you had a clothespin on your nose during that Yankees game, I'm sure.
I was at game 162 in Tampa! Such an awesome memory! Thanks for such a great video!
Good to know!!!!
That night was the most fun I had ever had watching baseball, and I've watched a lot of baseball lmao. That Rays game had me buzzing for days.
Great video. I either didn't realize or don't remember anything about the NL implications. That night I was following both the Rays and Red Sox and couldn't believe it. One of the most exciting nights of watching baseball and I say that as a Blue Jays fan.
Both AL and NL WC up for grabs all 4 games. thats what made that night so AMAZING. unforgettable!.... at least for me as a Cardinals fan, Rays are my 2nd favorite team.
I was working at Target Field that day and did my best to follow the other games while working the Twins game. After our game ended and I finished my job duties I continued to track the other games on my train ride back home. Longoria hit his dramatic homer at 12:03 but my phone battery died just minutes earlier before I could get home and I missed it. 🙁
I’m a huge Cardinals fan and in 2011 I was working for a St. Louis based aerospace company.
The company had bought out a section of seats for Sunday Sept 11th and being it was the 9/11 anniversary my company was asked to give a representative to throw out the first pitch. It’s a long story but I was able to get that honor and it was the best day of my life lol! I’ll never forget that moment!
Anyway my plants G.M. was a native of Atlanta and thus a huge Braves fan. We had been trading blows about our teams for WEEKS at that point.
Obviously we are all aware of the sweep. On Monday morning since I was in production, I was at work a few hours before any office staff including the GM. I went around the whole plant and gathered up every broom I could find while was roughly 20+ big brooms and laid every one of them upright against his office door. 😂
Fortunately for me my job haha, he was a good sport about it! However I did have to eventually return all the brooms back to their spots.😢
Love the music man. I’m a classical musician so this video was doubly awesome 👏🏽
Now we got a Game 162 Longo statue outside The Trop!
Your videos are fantastic! Keep them coming.
actual goosebumps. crazy good storytelling
Great video, I remember this night very well. Great refresher though
Will always remember watching the rays that night losing my mind!
Props to the editor for putting Hunter Pence back to back as an Astro and Phill
There had to be sarcasm when he called the Trop the most beautiful stadium in the world😂
This video was really well done! You totally deserve more subs.
I really like this! Keep it up!
I remember playing mlb 12 the show and this was the opening cutscene. One of the best they done
Cardinals have Devil Magic…I’ve thought that for years as a Brewers fan. I really think, Molina and Carpenter have the most especially against the Brewers. I firmly believe they could be 80 years old and beat us.
I remember this day I was watching the rays game and it kept going back to Boston it was funny how they lost !!
As a Blue Jays fan, they'd already wrapped up their season earlier that afternoon so then I could settle back & watch how the wildcard races unfolded that night. Somehow, I think a lot of us felt that there would be some drama on that final night of the 2011 season...and even so, it STILL was one of the most thrilling nights ever for baseball. It made national headlines the very next day in fact. And then if that wasn't enough, the Cardinals took full advantage & went all the way to the World Series & defeated the Rangers( who'd beaten the Rays in the ALDS ). What a crazy final couple of months for baseball in 2011. Lots of fun though. 🙂
Can’t believe this was 12 years ago. My God.
very, very well done!
thank you..
Cardinals are my favorite team. Rays are my 2nd. I think this was the best night in MLB history! So much drama so close together!
"the most beautiful park in the world, Tropicana Field..."
Don't think we didn't catch that
Watching live was stunning. Because of the rain delay everything happened at yhe same time.
As a Giants fan, 2011 was horrible, but it made 2012 that much better. Great video!
Watching this just makes the Cardinals winning the WS sting even more.
That was a great day for baseball
Agreed!!!!
Having to root for the Yankees to win a game has to be the most painful feeling for a Red Sox fan.
Also can we just talk about how much this last win kind of cost the Phillies in the long term?
If the Braves and Cardinals end up tied and play game 163, the Cardinals maybe lose that game or at minimum alters their pitching situation in the NLDS if they win. Could've altered the course of the series in Phillies' favor, maybe get another title. Also maybe Ryan Howard never injures his Achilles and speeds up the Phillies inevitable collapse they took over a decade to recover from
I still remember that choke by the braves i was so pissed off at them like how yall do that then the 28-3 game happened
That was a great video about a very interesting thing
The one year the Braves choked BEFORE we got to the playoffs instead of after we got there, the Phillies of all teams knock us out
I love that Kimbrel picture. Look at the board. It reminded me how insanely good he was before he was traded. 45 saves and 1.02 era!? That wasn't even an outlier, for his first hand full of years he was as dominating and as much of a shutdown closer as the game had ever seen. His stance when receiving the signs had to intimidate the hitters. I still remember the day the Braves traded him it was right around the day they broke my heart and traded Heyward and I gave up on watching them for a while.
I’m a cardinals fan and I got to see the cardinals finish off the brewers in Milwaukee before we won the World Series. The game got pushed back because the rangers had already won on the other side and I was already in Green Bay watching the Rams lose to the Packers. The Brewers fans were so mean to me and I was only 13, I will forever hate the Brewers because of how they treated me that night
4:20 it just seems wrong that the Red Sox fans would ever have their spirits lifted by hearing the Yankees hit a grand slam
Great video! I remember that night. But I can do without the win probability percentages.
My phillies made a massive mistake sweeping the braves. And i knew it was at the time. And we didnt have to either. Thecardinals were the hot team at the right time. Phillies lost 1-0 in game 5. Halladay vs carpenter. And the 5 year divison champ streak was over.
Where did you attain the circular braves logo?
DONT WATCH THE END
- A Texas Rangers fan
Great video!!!
“Ray-angers” cracks me up 😂😂😂
This was the spark for a 5 year run of relevance for the Orioles. The Red Sox got to feel 15 years of frustration from the fans that night, amd they would be rewarded somewhat the next season.
Only time in my life as a Yankees fan that I wanted the Yankees to lose because it would guarantee the Red Sox would miss the playoffs plus the Yankees already clinched the best record in the American league.
being from St Louis the 2011 season was amazing, then when Pujols left for LA and everyone was sad, but then many years later he came back and everyone forgave him
Wildest season in baseball history too.
Hey, could you put the music used in the description or something?
most epic mlb night ever
the complete collapse of the red sox, yankees throwing that hanging pitch right after the red sox were eliminated, this shit was movie like
As a Yankees fan I think this was maybe the only time I wanted them to blow a 7 run lead to keep the Red Sox out of the playoffs
2:52 clever how you made hunter pence the rep of both the astros and phillies
I wrote a paper in English class on this day and got an A
That infield fly rule was like getting punched in the gut after a big meal.
Terry Francona never got a proper send-off in Boston because of this day
i live laugh love longo
As a Rangers Fan, realizing how this vid ends, I HAVE TO STOP WATCHING, 😔😵💫😭
The 2011 WS was Cruz playing a no double outfield.... and allowing a double, right?
;(
No. He was playing too shallow.
As a Cards fan I remember this day pretty clearly. I've always called it Wild Card Wednesday 2011.
"Because baseball games can never start at a normal time"... watching this video after seeing what times the Twins 2023 AL Wild Card games start.... midweek- 13:38 😭🤣
As an Astros fan, it was hard to see Berkman win with the Cardinals.
Also, you show images of Hunter Pence being on both the Astros and the Phillies. C'MON MAN!
As fan of the Boston Red Sox it is one of the worst night but the Beer and Chicken sox of 2011 deserve not to make the playoffs due to that epic September collapse. That unfortunately led to the firing of Terry Francona and a roller coaster of a decade plus with 2 world series titles sandwich with several last place finishes.
I just remember how big of a disaster Bobby Valentine was the next season
that 1 season of Bobby V was so bad. The best move of 2012 was the salary dump during the trade deadline.
How you gonna make a video about 2011 and have a pic of a 2023 rookie in the mix. Bro, context!
Good video, but why is it flashing so much?
Nights like this one is why I am really glad that the league expanded its playoff field.
And this wasn't the only one - this year, (for example) without it, how many games are rendered moot once we hit Labor Day?
It's down to the wire and we still have a lot of very meaningful games.
I like it!
Nights like these in 2011 are why you SHOULDN’T expand the playoffs. I’d much prefer very good teams potentially fight for fewer postseason spots. Now it’s too watered down and I don’t pay attention to the regular season anymore.
I look at it from a different perspective. By giving us the playoff format that we have now the last day isn’t quite as exciting anymore. In this scenario can’t happen anymore. It also makes the playoffs less prestigious because they’re easier to get into.
Most beautiful park in the world lmao
As a lifelong baseball/Cardinals fan, this was best night as a fan in my life...
for about 31 days
And its pronounced Dan "fucking" Johnson
Everything is good now but this hurts as a Phillies fan 😂 we cared so much about the record we cooked our own goose by eliminating the Braves
aren't those the teams in the playoffs right now in 2023?
8:36 Smash
wow
If only the 2012 Braves had played in Yankee Stadium that "infield fly" would have been a game tying home run. (That's my comment on both the ridiculously stupid call by the ump and how it's a bit unfair how MLB allowed such short porches (combined with normal low fences) to be built only in the Yankees Stadium. I was at that game and to this day I truly believe the umpire who as you know only are added to the outfield in post season games completely forgot he wasn't at the normal spot in the infield because there is no other excuse. Afterall that rule was implemented to keep infielders from letting easy pop ups fall to throw out multiple runners and that one was so far out they couldn't have possibly thrown anyone out.
That comment about baseball games never starting at a normal time applies to hockey too.
I hate this day and I forever will hate it.
I'm no longer a baseball fan but back then I was. This was Xmas on steroids for me.
Someone should do a video on the 2011 trade deadline.
This is like keeping track of the stock market.
I’ll go to my grave thinking Carl Crawford could’ve caught that ball.
The Yankees had to have been throwing that game😂
6:35 For all the NYPD Blue fans.
That Johnson home run made Vegas vomit.
I wonder if umpires will ever figure out how stupid some of their calls are .
Still pissed at the choker Carl Crawford
St Louis teams are awful good at winning championships after having hopeless playoff odds at one point
Oh is this the year Red Sox Nation had to put clothespins on their noses and hope for the YANKEES to win their final game to avoid elimination?
The Red Sox' firings after the season and the resulting fortunes of Francona and Epstein were royal karma.
26 players on an MLB roster. 8 teams. And somehow this guy got 320 players……. 🤔 I know there’s 40 men on the roster but those 40 men aren’t on all in the MLB, nor are they in the dugout. 208 players bud
Is this about one team one game? Maybe a wild night but I got something for you if you want wild. Watch the 1980 NLCS. Phillies astros. Pick from 4 outta 5 game series. 4 went extras all incredible never die teams
How the fuck was that an infield fly rule? I hate that rule so much
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