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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.
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).
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...
Jul 26, 2018 · Larkin immediately got a pitch he liked and delivered a deep fly ball to left center over the drawn-in outfielders to plate Gladden and win the World Series for the Twins.
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.
Oct 23, 2016 · That certainly was all about Kirby Puckett. LARKIN: That famous saying, 'jump on my back.' He has that great defensive play, and then he hits the home run to win it.
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Oct 26, 2018 · Puckett went 3-for-4 with 3 RBI in the game, finishing a double shy of the cycle while also padding his stats with a stolen base.
