{"id":3482,"date":"2011-12-27T08:58:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T13:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2012-10-16T11:01:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T15:01:34","slug":"where-would-2011-ws-game-6-rank-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=3482","title":{"rendered":"Where would 2011 WS Game 6 rank all time?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Freese's name will go down in history for his historic Game 6 performance. Photo AP\/Jeff Roberson via foxnews.com<\/p><\/div>\n

(This post was inspired by the very last question in David Shoenfeld<\/strong>‘s 12\/20\/11 chat<\/a>, asking where this game ranks among the greatest ever games played).<\/p>\n

For those of you with the MLB network (channel 213 on DirecTV), the series they featured this year profiling the “Greatest 20 games of the last half century<\/a>” was my favorite bit of sports programming since the 30-for-30 series on ESPN debuted.\u00a0 Bob Costas<\/strong> and Tom Verducci<\/strong> hosted and did 1-2 hour reviews of these 20 games and brought in guest hosts for each game in the form of actual players and managers who participated in the games themselves.\u00a0 These guest hosts provided fantastic commentary on the state of the dugouts at each critical juncture as well as first hand knowledge of their own thought processes throughout.\u00a0 If you haven’t seen the series, I highly suggest setting your DVR and watching them.<\/p>\n

Now the interesting question: where would Game 6 of our most recent World Series have ranked, if it were a candidate to be included?<\/p>\n

For me, game 6 was absolutely the most entertaining game I’ve ever witnessed, in person or on TV.\u00a0 It wasn’t the best played game (with errors and questionable manager decisions and no less than three blown saves) but it was amazingly entertaining, suspenseful, and with a story-book ending that was almost out of a movie script.\u00a0 But does it rank with the best game list that MLB network came up with?<\/p>\n

First, here’s their list, counted down from 20 to 1 (with captions borrowed from the MLB link above and augmented by me):<\/p>\n