Greatest MLB Game Ever Played
 

The greatest MLB game ever played just concluded in Houston with a walk-off HR by Burke in the bottom of the 18th inning. Game had everything: Grand Slams, heroic pitching performances and a walk-off, series-winning HR. 43 year old Roger Clemens comes in and pitches the last 3 innings to get the win. Just all around an awesome game to watch. Here's hoping the Astros carry over some of this emotion and give the Cards all they can handle. Chris Burke's gonna be big time. Big time.

Speaking for most of Georgia, we sincerely disagree.

As a lifelong Braves fan, I agree.

At the same time though, I was expecting it, and so were you. It's just that the inevetible was delayed 9 innings...

The rookies will be more experienced next year though and will hopefully have a bullpen that can handle the Playoffs...


Good luck, Astros...i'll be rooting for you next week against the evil cardinals! You deserve to make it to the World Series this year, and will represent the NL much better than that team last year...

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I agree, it was a great game, especially with Clemens getting the win. Hopefully the Astros get to the World Series.

-Mark

So who you going for? The cardinals or the cardinals?


This was a bad ass game. Too bad there had to be a winner.

Who knew houston had all those hot chicks? Hubba hubba.

I'll tell you this. With the young nucleus the Braves have, there will be another 10 years of Division titles residing in Hotlanta. Cox and Shurhotlz are freakin geniuses. I think the NCLS is gonna be a great one. I'm glad Clemens only had to to 3 innings, much longer and we'd have had to bring in J.Lane to pitch. I hope that Backe can rebound from this outing, we're gonna need him against St. Louis. Carlos Beltran can suck my left nut, I hope he's enjoying sitting home.

and Bobby, people have known for a long time that there are hotties in Texas. But bein from cali I don't blame you for havin your head up your ass and thinkin the world revolves around the left coast.

lifelong cards fan here.

It was a great game tho..

Ehh, I'm never sad to see the Braves lose. :p

Personally, I think the game was kind of one of those short-term win, long-term loss things. Sure, they won the game, but their chances at taking down the Cards is severely diminished with how much they wore their guys out. In the long run, it probably doesn't matter all that much who won that game, since my bet is that the Cardinals will roll al over them now.

I think you mislabeled your thread. The greatest MLB game ever, and it isn't about the Cubs???

:)

I actually completely disagree - the NL series gets a much more favorable schedule for pitching rest, and the Cards lineup regulars (including the 'big-2') are more susceptible to "power pitching", which the Astros have in spades.

Plus, in short-series baseball, extensive rest is not always a positive - compared to over the regular season, players getting hot (and emotional victories) carry way more weight. I'd expect the 'Stros to do just enough to win, especially since they can still throw Clemens in games 3 and 7. However, I don't think they'll get there - I think you might just see Roger starting Game 1 of the WS . . .

Whoops, I type faster than I think. I corrected it...

Here's a question for the Braves fans in the house, since there's a ton of you . . . do you really think the Braves rookies will get better next year, as a collective?

Sorry, but Francouer played well above his ceiling for most of the year, and he's apparently allergic to ball three (not to even mention ball four). Marte is the real deal, but where do you play him? Chipper's considerably more valuable at 3b than in LF, Marte's service clock was started prematurely, and it's a crowded outfield for a guy with weak-to-mediocre defense (with Langerhans, Francouer, Jones, etc etc etc).

Other than Joey Divine, who should be extremely productive next season in a setup/relief role, I think the Braves rookies cannot be expected to produce more than they did this year. To put it shortly, they all played exceptionally well this season, and you can probably expect some regression.

Most people wish they could catch a HR ball...this guy caught TWO in this historic game!

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playof...ory?id=2186452

Fan catches long shots by Burke, Berkman
ESPN.com news services

It was Shaun Dean's lucky day at Minute Maid Park on Sunday.

The Houston Chronicle reported that Dean, of Porter, Texas, did more than catch the game-winning home-run ball hit by Chris Burke in the Houston Astros' dramatic 7-6 NLDS series-clinching victory over the Atlanta Braves, an 18-inning, six-hour epic.

Ten innings earlier, with the Astros down 6-1, Dean caught Lance Berkman's grand slam to the left-field seats to close the gap to 6-5.

"It came right at me," Dean, 25, told the Chronicle. "I just reached over and caught it."

On catching Burke's solo shot: "It was all just a blur ... [it] came more toward my father-in-law, and he just leaned over and I reached down and caught it."

After the Burke homer, "an usher came down and talked to me," Dean told the paper, saying that the Astros normally compensate fans who return special home-run balls to the players who hit them.

Dean, who caught the home run balls approximately three hours apart, reportedly said he probably would give the ball to Burke.

"Everyone was congratulating me, patting me on the back," Dean told the paper. "I had several people say I should buy a lottery ticket or go to Vegas."

I think Betiment, Devine, and Farnsworth will get better. l I think Francouer will be a .300 hitter he just has to learn not to be swing happy. The other guys will probably end up like LaRoche and Charles Thomas.