The Bottom of the Eleventh: Game 6
In the bottom of the eleventh in old St. Louis city...
Did you partake of the feast of heroism, comedy, insanity?
Or did it take a Boswell* to explain the unexplainable,
When baseball produced the all-around unbelievable?
Time was approaching midnight, some were dozing by the end of the eighth,
Then heard the crack of hometown Freese's bat and were suddenly awake!
In the bottom of the ninth, he hit a two-strike, two-out, two run triple off the wall, almost out...
Just when it appeared the team in Cardinal red would fall short in clout!
The final instant of miraculous madness came at 12:40 Eastern time--
A home run blast to straightaway center field: final score, ten to nine.
Where do they stand with teams like the '78 Yankees, the 2004 Red Sox?
Try to tell the world that any team outranks the Cards after they came out on top.
The Rangers could have iced their first world title in 40 years of Texas heat ...
They had gone ahead, once more, top of the 10th, on Hamilton's two-run feat:
You'd think. But the declared dead of August, the wild-card Redbirds,
Defied probability, in baseball history's most amazing comeback surge.
Berkman, he of the bottom of the tenth: "When you're a little kid and you're out there" playing October hallucinatory ball ...
To appreciate the glory of the comebacks, you have to know how close they came to losing through errors and phone calls!
*Tom Boswell, The Washington Post, 2011 World Series: David Freese Caps Cardinals' Unbelievable Comeback October 28, 2011.
Loading comments… 
