jagtrader wrote:So this was sweet in a different way. I watched the Game 6 comeback with quiet awe. I tried to savor it knowing something like that will probably never happen for my team again.
That's how I feel about it, too. As we'd won the WS in 2006 (not too long ago), I saw us go down by three games to two, and then by three runs in Game 6, and I was all but resigned to defeat. But rather calmly. It just felt like it was our time to take a turn losing the WS, and it was Texas's time to win one. The Rangers have proven to be a classy organization and a worthy opponent, and if the Cards had to bow out to any team in the playoffs, it might as well have been them.
The Game 6 comebacks were an amazing thing but it just wasn't a jumping, screaming, celebratory chain of events for me. Quiet awe is an appropriate term. After Hamilton hit that 2-run blast to put the Rangers' back in front, I almost thought it was over. It seemed like a storybook tale for Texas - Hamilton finally coming back from all he's been through, years ago as well as recently, to be a hero.
Then Freese hit a walkoff homer and things got crazy.
As far as Game 7 goes, I wasn't concerned at all when Texas scored two runs in the beginning. I knew our offense would show up as well. After the Craig HR and especially after the walk and HBP made it 5-2, it just felt like a victory lap.
This series was won in Game 6, no doubt about it. Texas went all-in then (e.g. using Holland then rather than on Game 7). When we came out on top then, it was a done deal.
Seriously, the first day of preseason we lost our ace, and somehow we finish the last day of the season the only team still standing. Incredible!
