St. Louis Cardinals' David Freese (23) reacts to his game-winning home run in the 11th inning that gave the Cardinals a series-tying 10-9 win against the Texas Rangers in Game 6 of the World Series.(Dallas Morning News)

Well that was fun.

David Freese‘s walk-off eleventh inning blast to dead center off little-used Mark Lowe capped off what proved to be another in an ever-mounting list of late inning Game Six heroics in World Series lore. Game Seven may be packed with pressure on both sides, but Game Six is where memories are made.

Tonight’s finale certainly will not be able to live up to yesterday’s predecessor. If it does, I’m not sure my eyeholes can take it. While we still have last night’s epic Epic still fresh in our minds let’s see where it ranks among the best Game Sixes in recent memory:

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Albert Pujols connects on one of the record-tying three blasts he hit in the Cardinals 16-7 win in Game Three over the Rangers. (AP)

Last night’s Game Three was not all about Albert, though it seems that way now. Five hits, six RBIs and a quarter-mile’s worth of home runs certainly opens and shuts the case for Pujols as the player of the game, and the series, and the universe of ever ever, but before his three-homer outburst beginning in the sixth inning on, his Cardinals were actually embroiled in what was shaping up to be a pretty decent, perhaps even memorable, World Series contest with the Texas Rangers.

At the center of the controversial-turned-historic action were a couple of former Los Angeles Angels, Mike Napoli and Darren Oliver. Napoli in particular found himself involved in three key plays in the fourth inning alone, though they are now forgotten due to Pujols’s own three-way barrage.

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The debacle that was our CF for years is the perfect example of how not spending money wisely can come back to bite you in the ass a few years down the line. Instead of giving Carlos Beltran the money and years he wanted, we decided to go with the almost-as-old-as-our-GM Steve Finley, who bombed almost right away. Realizing our mistake, we threw even more money at Gary Matthews Jr., and I’m sure I don’t need to tell anyone reading this how fantastic that turned out for us. Finally, we decided to hand Torii Hunter a boat load of money so we’d actually have a viable, productive CFer. Let’s examine the math behind all this.

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