• Kirby Puckett's 1991 World Series home run was a baseball play that occurred in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series on October 26, 1991, at the Hubert H....
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  • the best World Series ever played, with three games being won in the final at-bat and four coming down to the final pitch. Kirby Puckett's heroics in...
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    is known for having hit a dramatic game-winning home run in Game Six of the 1991 World Series. Puckett led the American League in batting with a .339 average...
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  • Kirby Puckett's heroics in Game 6 allowed the Twins to stay alive and eventually win Game 7. Yellon, Al (October 28, 2011). "The Top 10 World Series Games...
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  • home by center fielder Kirby Puckett. Terry Pendleton followed by singling home Driessen and Oquendo hit a sacrifice fly to make it 4–2. Another run scored...
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  • second, and scored on Kirby Puckett's single. Knoblauch scored again in the sixth when he walked, moved to second on Puckett's ground out, and scored...
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  • Jack's call of Kirby Puckett's home run from the 1991 World Series, saying, "...we will see you tomorrow night!" Puckett's and Freese's home runs occurred...
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  • Freese's walk-off home run echoed his father Jack's call of Kirby Puckett's walk-off home run from Game 6 of the 1991 World Series, occurring 20 years...
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  • World Series, Leibrandt had given up a go-ahead extra base hit in extra innings in Game 6. In 1991, he had allowed the game-winning home run to Kirby...
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    home run is to date the only World Series home run by a relief pitcher. Goose Goslin had a big game for the Senators, with three singles and a home run...
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  • eighth, however, Minnesota took the lead for good. A double by Kirby Puckett brought Gladden home to tie the game, and Don Baylor and Brunansky drove in the...
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  • home run. Grant pitched solidly and the Twins tied the series at 3–3. In this game, Mudcat Grant became just the seventh pitcher to homer in a World Series...
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    3 of the American League Championship Series to a heartbreaking 8th-inning two-run home run. The World Series was a well-fought contest between the Twins...
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    Twins with a solo shot in the first. The home run was his fourth of the postseason, tying Kirby Puckett for most home runs in a single Twins postseason. The...
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    Twins to be part of both the 1987 and 1991 World Series teams. The other six were Randy Bush, Greg Gagne, Kirby Puckett, Al Newman, Gene Larkin (who made...
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  • a series-sealing two-run home run in the ninth by Semien off closer Paul Sewald. The Rangers became the second fifth-seeded team to win the World Series...
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    this 4 years later in 1991 when they defeated the Atlanta Braves. The 1988 World Series is remembered for the iconic home run by the Los Angeles Dodgers'...
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    MacPhail, and longtime Oriole Cal Ripken Jr., spoke at Kirby Puckett's funeral. Newman and Puckett played together throughout Newman's career with the Twins...
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    joined by Rod Carew's #29 in 1987, Tony Oliva's #6 in 1991, Kent Hrbek's #14 in 1995, and Kirby Puckett's #34 in 1997 before the Twins began hanging the banners...
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    regular season series match-up, 3–3. Their only previous postseason meeting occurred in the 1991 American League Championship Series, which Minnesota...
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    In baseball, a walk-off home run is a home run that ends the game. For a home run to end the game, it must be hit in the bottom of the final inning and...
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    include Roberto Alomar, George Brett, Dennis Eckersley, Rickey Henderson, Kirby Puckett, Ozzie Smith, Willie Stargell, John Smoltz, Iván Rodríguez, and Mariano...
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  • hit a game-tying three run homer in the sixth after two, two-out singles. for the Senators. Mel Ott's second home run of the series in the tenth off of Jack...
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    Twins to be part of both the 1987 and 1991 World Series teams. The other six were Randy Bush, Greg Gagne, Kirby Puckett, Al Newman, Gene Larkin, and Kent...
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    The 1991 World Series is considered one of the best of all time. The blue colored seat back and bottom where Kirby Puckett's 1991 World Series Game 6...
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    crown in four years, Gagne hit a game-winning, three-run homer in Game One of the 1991 World Series off Atlanta's Charlie Leibrandt. Gagne hit only .213...
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  • the American Association. The 1991 World Series, which the Braves ultimately lost, has been called the greatest World Series in history by ESPN. Despite...
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    second home run of the series, a home run with a man on base on a pitch from Scott Erickson in the fifth inning; with no outs, Puckett hit home run with...
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  • television to say "And we'll see you tomorrow night!" The home run was Puckett's only walk-off home run of his career. In the final and deciding game, Jack...
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    finish the previous year to the AL West title. In the 1991 World Series, in which he hit two home runs, Davis and the Twins defeated the Atlanta Braves...
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