Best Games/Events of 2011
Game 162 (Sept. 28)
Over the course of one night, two teams (the Rays and Cardinals) completed miraculous month-long comebacks to capture wild cards and two others (the Red Sox and Braves) completed epic collapses. St. Louis beat Houston 8-0 on a shutout by Chris Carpenter; the Braves lost a ninth-inning lead and later the game in 13 to the Phillies to give the Cardinals the NL wild card. In the AL, the Red Sox blew a ninth-inning lead and lost in a walk-off to the Orioles, while the Rays rallied from a 7-0 eighth-inning deficit against the Yankees to tie the game with two outs in the ninth on a home run by Dan Johnson and win it in the 12th on a home run by Evan Longoria.
