Search results
- 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.
baseballhall.org/discover/inside-pitch/kirby-puckett-game-six-1991-world-seriesKirby Puckett’s historic night powers the Twins to a win in ...
People also ask
How did the Minnesota Twins win the 1991 World Series?
When was Kirby Puckett's 1991 World Series home run?
Did Kirby Puckett ever win a World Series?
Who won the 1991 World Series?
Why was the 1991 World Series so exciting?
Did the Minnesota Twins win a World Series?
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).
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.
- ‘I Honestly Can’T Even Explain Why It Happened’
- ‘You Felt A Little Bad That This Had to End’
- ‘Come on and Sit Down, Have A Drink’
- ‘What’s Gonna Happen Tonight?’
- A Special Legacy
“And now we’re seeing something that we rarely see in a World Series: Terry Pendleton, leading a group of Atlanta Braves out to congratulate the Minnesota Twins.” — Braves radio announcer Pete Van Wieren, moments after Game 7 ended Terry Pendleton had been close before, having played in two previous seven-game World Series as a member of the Cardin...
“Why don’t we play all winter and make it a best of 90?” — MLB commissioner Fay Vincent to Braves owner Ted Turner during the 1991 World Series, as reported by The Sporting News, Nov. 4, 1991 The compulsion to connect with the opponent wasn’t limited to Pendleton and the Braves. Twins manager Tom Kelly felt the pull too. The emotions are hard to de...
“If this Game 7 is not the greatest finale in Series history, it is close. If this Series is not the greatest in history, then it is close. At the least, it can be remembered in a single word: excruciating. Joy for Minnesota. Pain for Atlanta. Tension for us all.” — John Rawlings, The Sporting News, Nov. 4, 1991 After pitching a 10-inning shutout i...
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a hitter shake hands with a catcher before the first pitch — in any game,” CBS analyst Tim McCarver before the first pitch of Game 7 It might be reasonable to assume that all the talk of respect and cutting trophies in half after Game 7 was fueled mostly by the game itself, just nice things professional athletes say af...
“Minnesota and Atlanta, last-place teams a season ago, had been transformed, as if by divine touch, into champions who gave us a World Series so good that it can be called the best ever.” — Dave Kindred, The Sporting News, Nov. 4, 1991 Ask the men who played in the 1991 World Series to describe their feelings 30 years later, and they’ll offer varia...
- 25 sec
- Jason Foster
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.
Oct 27, 1991 · On Oct. 27, 1991, the Twins win the 1991 World Series at the Metrodome with a 1-0 victory over the Atlanta Braves in Game 7 Check out http://MLB.com/video for more!
- 3 min
- 6.9K
- Minnesota Twins
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.
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...
