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- Kirby Puckett sprinted, leaped and extended his glove two feet above the Plexiglas fence in left-center field – right over Tony Oliva’s retired No. 6 – to rob Ron Gant of the Braves of an extra-base hit, before a Game 6 World Series crowd of 55,155 at the Metrodome.
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With the Minnesota Twins facing elimination against the Atlanta Braves, and with the score tied 3–3 in the bottom of the 11th inning, Kirby Puckett stepped up to the plate and drove the game-winning home run off of Charlie Leibrandt into the left field seats to force a decisive Game 7.
Kirby Puckett's walk-off home run in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series sent the Minnesota Twins to Game 7 - and an eventual championship win. (National Baseball Hall of Fame) Similarly to how they won the 1987 World Series, the Twins rallied back when they were down three-games-to-two, winning Games 6 and 7 to clinch the 1991 World Series title.
Nov 15, 2016 · The series had gone according to form over the first five games, with the home team winning all of them, when the squads returned to the Metrodome on Oct. 26, 1991, for Game 6. The Twins needed...
Oct 26, 2012 · They took an early lead in the first when Puckett tripled home Chuck Knoblauch and Shane Mack hit a single that scored Puckett, giving the Twins a 2-0 lead.
Oct 31, 2016 · The Series' greatest star—Twins centerfielder Kirby Puckett, who forced Game 7 by winning Game 6 almost single-handedly—has been dead for 10 years now. The two stadiums in which the Series was ...
Oct 26, 2018 · Puckett put on his cape, flew against the Metrodome's outfield wall for one of the greatest leaping grabs in MLB history, and then put the Twins on his back with a walk-off home run in the bottom...
The 1991 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1991 season. The 88th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Minnesota Twins (95–67) and the National League (NL) champion Atlanta Braves (94–68).
