Baseball is considered boring by many people.
Some say it’s too slow and that there’s no fast paced action while others prefer to see football’s hard hitting tackles or basketball’s exciting slam dunks.
But baseball reminded us fans just why it’s so exciting last Thursday in Game 6 of the 2011 World Series. There was offense, drama, and plenty of heroics.
The Texas Rangers were twice one strike away from claiming the 2011 World Series Championship. But the pesky, never-give-up Cardinals had other plans.
St. Louis rallied in the bottom of the ninth on David Freese’s two-RBI triple that tied the game. With the score knotted at 7-7, the game went to extra innings.
The top of the 10th provided more drama with Josh Hamilton’s two-run homer that inched Texas ahead.
The Cardinals pieced together another rally in the bottom half, and Lance Berkman’s two-RBI single brought the game to a 9-9 deadlock.
One inning later, St. Louis completed the improbable comeback. With Mark Lowe pitching for Texas, Freese drilled a walk-off home run 428 feet into center field.
That gave the Cardinals the win, and they eventually went on to win the series.
With no shortage of excitement, Game 6 proved once again that baseball is far from boring.
Reach the reporter at gregory.dillard@asu.edu
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