Rangers vs Cardinals: 8 things you do not know about Game 6

Rangers vs Cardinals: 8 things you do not know about Game 6 - Fifty-one years, Major League Baseball American League added two franchises, including the Washington Senators, who were the replacement of a team that finished with the exact name of 1.901 to 60 before moving to Minnesota and become the Twins. Two senators do not live in the capital for almost as long as its predecessor, however, re-branding as the Texas Rangers in 1972. Regardless of what has been called, Senators / Rangers had never reached the World Series until last season when they lost to the Giants team that had disappeared since 1954 under the title, when you call home New York City.

On many occasions the night of Thursday, the size of the drought as the Texas Rangers' seems to be more. However, in one of the most exciting series of games ever in the world, the St. Louis Cardinals to reach the final blow in two runs in the ninth and tenth, forced a decisive game seven, when David Freese capped a game for all ages with a house on one level take-off in center field.

Let's behind the numbers, look at the dramatic penultimate contest of the 2011 season.

1. Walk-off hero David Freese long ball was 15-feet of Homer in the history of the World Series and the first since Scott Podsednik White Sox slope of two to end the fall of 2005 Classic. In addition, the explosion of Freese was the fifth to come in a set of 6 or later to join the history of bats circuits Bill Mazeroski (1960, Game 7), Carlton Fisk (1975, Game 6) , Kirby Puckett (1991, Game 6) and Joe Carter (1993, Game 6).

2. Very special: Game 6 was the 56th extra-round contest in the history of the Fall Classic and the first since the Chicago White Sox beat the Houston Astros in Game 3 of the 2005 World Series. 4 hours 33 minutes marathon was also an extra-inning, 10 in a matter of game 6, the last in 1992, when the Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves to win the first of his two consecutive titles.

3. Going the Distance: This marks the 37 th best seven-game World Series has been extended until the end (including 1912, when eight games were played after a set of two tie). The last to arrive until the end came in 2002 when the Anaheim Angels beat San Francisco Giants. There have been many maxed-out series in recent history, however. A total of seven matches were played in 1991 (Braves and Twins), 1997 (Indians and Marlins) and 2001 (Yankees and Diamondbacks). But that's all since 1988.

4. Small-field advantage: 36 Thurs 7 (including one played during the series of eight games in 1912), the home team has won 19 times (52.8 percent). Thus, although the visitors did not have a strong local disadvantage in general, have had to watch the home team celebrate in their own land, after each of the last eight games 7.

5. Maps of Seven: The Cardinals play their game in 11 World Series 7 and the first since 1987. The franchise is 7-3 all-time historic victory in these games or more (more wins than any other franchise), but lost the last two.

6. Gains Wild: For the Cardinals to win Friday night would be the fifth of San Luis wildcard to win everything, and the first since the 2004 Boston Red Sox joined a list that includes the Marlins in 1997 and 2003, and 2002 Angels.

A victory for the Cardinals also be made by the club 19 to return to a deficit of 3 games to 2 in the Fall Classic in the current system of seven games. The last team to do was the 2002 Angels, who trailed the Giants before taking the last two games in Anaheim.

7. Promote gender equality: A championship Ranger means that 10 different franchises have won everything in the last 11 years. The Rangers also became the first franchise to win his first title since the Angels took the monkey in 2002.

8. Rain delay of a day, the game 6 played a day later than originally planned because of rain within 30 associated with the history of the World Series and first since Game 4 of the Fall Classic 2006 (also in San Luis).

Although the motion to adjourn was criticized by some, many understood the disadvantage of playing a game of the Fall Classic in a nasty rain in October, the climate that have affected the results of the most important event in the baseball. The former All-Star and the league, Joe Torre, executive vice president of operations now Major League Baseball, said the decision to wait to play baseball.

"You get to the sixth game of the World Series, and we want to protect [against playing in the rain] - if you have a forecast that we expect good weather tomorrow, and if necessary the next day, I think was more a decision-maker than anything else, just the fact that we expect rain during the game. "

With the postponement after a day's leave provided, the Fall Classic this year was the first to go two days without a game since 1989, when an earthquake forced a delay of 10 days of the Athletics-Giants Fall Classic.

6 game of the season was also the first game to be delayed stapling World Series since 1986, when rain postponed Game 7 between the Red Sox and Mets. The next night, New York National Club, the League defeated Boston, 8-5, to win his second title.

Fall Classics Twenty-five years later, the Rangers, who have committed a blunder Fielding in the sleeves at the end of Game 6, are forced to play another day to ensure that elusive first championship.