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In the hours following David Freese's historic walk-off home run in Game 6 of the World Series on Thursday at Busch Stadium, fans, players and media alike tried to find proper context for what they had just seen.But perhaps the most telling reaction came merely a split second after Freese's homer landed in the grass behind the center-field fence, sending the Cardinals to a thrilling 10-9, 11-inni football game ng victory over the Rangers."We'll see you tomorrow night," FOX play-by-play man Joe Buck stated, echoing his late father.The words were also those of Hall of Fame broadcaster Jack Buck in 1991 when Kirby Puckett's home run ended Game 6 in Minnesota -- the last time a walk-off shot forced a Game 7.Jack Buck's famous call now has company. So to do Game 6s in 1975, 1986, 1991 and 1993 in the debate football game of greatest Game 6 ever.Images from those games had already been shown on FOX before Freese stepped to the plate. The pitch he crushed into the center-field batter's eye simply cemented the 2011 edition of World Series Game 6 among those classics."It was such an unbelievable roller-coaster of emotion," said MLB Network analyst Al Leiter, who was a part of the 1997 Marlins team that won Game 7 on a football game walk-off single. "We felt it watching the game, certainly the fans did and in each respective dugout."Thursday's game was just the fourth walk-off home run in a World Series Game 6, and the first since 1993. ESPN's Karl Ravech was quick to point out that no team had ever scored runs in the eighth, ninth and 10th innings of a World Series game -- and for good measure, Freese's homer added another football game run in the 11th."A 10-9 final, which at one point was one of the uglier World Series games," Ravech began. "It turned out to be one of the most memorable.""Very bad game in the beginning," said Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen, who has spent this Series as an analyst for ESPN. "All of a sudden it's one of the best games to be played in the World Series."Given the long, storied history of America's pa football game stime, it takes a true classic for analysts to heap superlatives on a game or a Series. But most weren't shy to do so Thursday.MLB Network's Harold Reynolds said the Series ranked with the 2001 classic between the D-backs and Yankees among the best ever. He added that he told Cardinals right fielder Lance Berkman after the game it might have been "the greatest game ever.""What a game," said Reynol football game ds, almost at a loss for words trying to explain the magnitude and the historic implications of what he had just seen. "The excitement and the enthusiasm and the craziness that were going on in the ballpark."For ESPN's John Kruk, who was on the losing end of Joe Carter's walk-off home run for Toronto against Philadelphia in 1993, Thursday's game was about "resiliency." The Cardinals' ability to co football game me back on so many different occasions gave new meaning to resiliency."This game was unbelievable," he said. "The thing I liked about it: the young guys were contributing."MLB Network analyst Kevin Millar had an interesting take on the Cardinals' thrilling triumph, in which they came from behind in both the ninth and 10th innings."Probably two or three times they were ripping plastic down," Millar football game said referring to the plastic in the Rangers clubhouse protecting lockers from the champagne that will remain on ice for one more night. "Unbelievable heart from that Cardinals ballclub.""Unbelievable" seemed to be the word of the night for analysts trying to define the Cardinal's improbable victory. Even St. Louis' biggest star had some trouble comprehending what he had just seen."This is unbeli football game evable," Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols said when asked where the game ranks among the greatest ever. "This is what it's all about. [In] baseball, this is what it's all about." football game
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