One team enters with a chance to clinch a World Series title, while the other is battling to keep its season alive and force one of those winner-take-all Game 7s. Past Game 6 classics have etched into our collective memory the names of Hall of Famers who lived up to their superstar billing and role players who had career-defining moments.
Certainly, there is no definitive way to measure the “best” of the past Game 6s, and fans of different teams will certainly have conflicting opinions on the matter. But in an attempt to come to an objective answer, we first narrowed the list down to a top 10 based on both teams’ average leverage index, a stat that measures the magnitude of each plate appearance. We then ranked those 10 by awarding three points for each lead change, two points for each tie (not counting 0-0) and one point for each extra inning played.
The points have been tallied, and the results are in.
Here is a countdown of the most exciting Game 6s in World Series history:
1) Cardinals 10, Rangers 9 | October 27, 2011, Texas took a 7-5 lead into the bottom of the ninth and had St. Louis down to its last strike before David Freese’s game-tying triple over the head of right fielder Nelson Cruz. A Josh Hamilton's two-run homer in the 10th put the Rangers back in front, but the Cardinals again survived being down to their last strike, as Lance Berkman knotted things up with an RBI single. Freese then played hero once more with his walk-off homer in the 11th, and St. Louis took Game 7 the next night.
This story is from the November 2019 edition of FHM Australia.
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