Found October 07, 2009 on
Big League Stew:
Prior to Tuesday night, there had been 13 tiebreakers in major league history and most of them had come down to one great or memorable play. Go ahead and rattle them off the top of your win-or-go-home head. Merkle's Boner. The Shot Heard 'Round The World. Bucky beats Boston. Holliday hits his head near home. After 12 great innings of baseball, I'm not sure if there's an equivalent singular highlight from Minnesota's incredible 6-5 victory over Detroit on Tuesday night, but I do know the game's collective reel would stand against any other. Honestly, it was as if the baseball gods mixed and matched every possible type of play we'd like to see and then came up with so many that they needed extra innings to serve them up. Early tape-measure home runs? Check. Defensive gems that killed would-be rallies? Check. Big-time baserunning, seeing-eye singles and goat-like gaffes? Check, check and check. Because there was so much to see — and subsequently so...
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