Fun fact: that walkoff homerun by the rays would’ve only been a homerun at Tropicana field

one of the best baseball history vids ive ever watched

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

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.

As a rays fan I remember watching every game with my mom. Magical time in my life

As a Cardinals fan, that day and the month leading up to it and of course the playoffs after i were absolute magic.

There had to be sarcasm when he called the Trop the most beautiful stadium in the world😂

from 2004-2016 baseball was just too great, probably some of the greatest baseball ever played in my opinion

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.

Now we got a Game 162 Longo statue outside The Trop!

This was awesome… remember 2011 season fondly, as Rays fan, and going to game 161 and 162

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.

i remember staying up watching MLB network until the last minute, that was a good day

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!

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 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. 🙁

"the most beautiful park in the world, Tropicana Field..." Don't think we didn't catch that

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.😢

Will always remember watching the rays that night losing my mind!

That was one magical night. I'll never forget it.

I was at game 162 in Tampa! Such an awesome memory! Thanks for such a great video!

Can’t believe this was 12 years ago. My God.

I remember playing mlb 12 the show and this was the opening cutscene. One of the best they done

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.

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

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.

Props to the editor for putting Hunter Pence back to back as an Astro and Phill

Your videos are fantastic! Keep them coming.

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

actual goosebumps. crazy good storytelling

Great video, I remember this night very well. Great refresher though

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.

That was a great day for baseball

I remember this day I was watching the rays game and it kept going back to Boston it was funny how they lost !!

Love the music man. I’m a classical musician so this video was doubly awesome 👏🏽

Watching live was stunning. Because of the rain delay everything happened at yhe same time.

"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 😭🤣

very, very well done! thank you..

This video was really well done! You totally deserve more subs.

Watching this just makes the Cardinals winning the WS sting even more.

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

I really like this! Keep it up!

That was a great video about a very interesting thing

Great video! I remember that night. But I can do without the win probability percentages.

i live laugh love longo

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

Wildest season in baseball history too.

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

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

“Ray-angers” cracks me up 😂😂😂

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

As a Cards fan I remember this day pretty clearly. I've always called it Wild Card Wednesday 2011.

Where did you attain the circular braves logo?

As a Rangers Fan, realizing how this vid ends, I HAVE TO STOP WATCHING, 😔😵‍💫😭

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.

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

DONT WATCH THE END - A Texas Rangers fan

Hey, could you put the music used in the description or something?

I'm no longer a baseball fan but back then I was. This was Xmas on steroids for me.

That comment about baseball games never starting at a normal time applies to hockey too.

wow

8:36 Smash

I wrote a paper in English class on this day and got an A

Most beautiful park in the world lmao

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.

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

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!

Good video, but why is it flashing so much?

The Yankees had to have been throwing that game😂

This is like keeping track of the stock market.

Someone should do a video on the 2011 trade deadline.

The 2011 WS was Cruz playing a no double outfield.... and allowing a double, right?

I’ll go to my grave thinking Carl Crawford could’ve caught that ball.

That Johnson home run made Vegas vomit.

aren't those the teams in the playoffs right now in 2023?

I wonder if umpires will ever figure out how stupid some of their calls are .

I hate this day and I forever will hate it.

How you gonna make a video about 2011 and have a pic of a 2023 rookie in the mix. Bro, context!

6:35 For all the NYPD Blue fans.

Still pissed at the choker Carl Crawford

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

St Louis teams are awful good at winning championships after having hopeless playoff odds at one point

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

The best year of my life followed by the worst two... Take me home....

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The Red Sox' firings after the season and the resulting fortunes of Francona and Epstein were royal karma.

How the fuck was that an infield fly rule? I hate that rule so much

If every team finishes 81-81 it will be the most watched game 163's ever

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?

I don’t agree. The Indian/Guardians Comeback vs Seattle is better.

And unfortunately, this started the dark days of baseball. Thanks St. Louis miracle workers 🍆🍆🍆