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The 2011 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2011 season. [1] The 107th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Texas Rangers and the National League (NL) champion St. Louis Cardinals; [2] [3] the Cardinals defeated the Rangers in seven games to win their 11th World Series championship ...
[8] The Cardinals eventually rode the momentum of their win to win the NLDS and NLCS on their way to defeating the Texas Rangers for their 11th World Series title. [9] [10] [11] The 2011 season was the final season of the single wild card format, as MLB added second wild card teams to each league starting with the 2012 season.
The Rangers responded by shutting out the Cardinals in Game 4, and then won Game 5 by a 4–2 score to be one win away from their first World Series title. Game 6 was the most memorable contest of the series, in which the Cardinals erased a two-run deficit in the bottom of the ninth inning thanks to a triple by David Freese , then did it again ...
“That was my worst sports moment,” said 63-year-old Ranger fan Craig Hamby before Game 4 of the American League Championship series. “If they ever win a World Series it would help ease that ...
It may not be as hard as moving on from blowing multiple late-inning leads in Game 6 of the World Series in St. Louis on Oct. 27, 2011, but it’s “in the ballpark.” ... Game 6 is 7 p.m ...
Berkman made key contributions in Game 6 of the 2011 World Series against the Texas Rangers. He hit his first home run in a World Series game in the first inning and in the ninth, with St. Louis down to their final strike before elimination, Berkman was driven home followed by Albert Pujols after a game-tying 2-run triple by David Freese. [36]
The Rangers won the series, 4–2, but would ultimately lose to the National League champion, the St. Louis Cardinals, in the 2011 World Series. The series began on October 8, and ended on October 15. [3] The series was the 42nd in league history. Fox televised all games in the United States. [4]
If the World Series extends to Game 6, it will be played in Los Angeles on Nov. 1, Valenzuela's birthday. ... 2011: St. Louis Cardinals. 2010: San Francisco Giants. 2009: New York Yankees.