Was Game 6 Of The 1985 World Series Rigged???
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Was Game 6 of the 1985 World Series a fix by Major League Baseball to help the Kansas City Royals win Game 6, and the World Series?
The Cardinals led the World Series 3-2, needing one more win to become champs.
In the bottom of the 9th with no outs and no one on base, and the Cardinals leading 1-0, Royals pinch hitter Jorge Orta hits a chopping bouncer to Cardinals first baseman Jack Clark, who tosses it to Cardinals pitcher Todd Worrell covering first base, who tagged the bag ahead of Orta.
Don Denkinger, Umpire #11, made one of the worse blown calls in Major League Baseball history by calling Orta safe when replays show Orta was out by a half a step.
The Royals then scored two runs to win the game.
Don Denkinger went on to be the umpire behind the plate for Game 7 of this World Series where the Royals blew out the Cardinals, 11-0, and became World Series Champions.
Denkinger has regularly appeared at sports memorabilia shows (including ones in St. Louis) willing to autograph photos depicting this blown call. Denkinger also owns a painting featuring himself, Todd Worrell, and Jorge Orta involved in this play.
The next night game 7, Denkinger was behind the plate. St Louis couldn't buy a strike the entire night it seemed. Worst call in World Series history.
One of The Worst Calls At First Base During a World Series To Me It’s Clearly a Out Big Time!
Not even close. He was dead out.
kind of surprised with a game of that magnitude that there wasn't a way to have other eyes on the play get together. Now sure they have challenges, but back then WOW did that cause all kind of fundamental collapses by a team with 100+ wins!
I've seen worse
It wasn't rigged, this was stolen
The worst call ever!!! Denkinger should have been drawn and quartered!!
Major League Baseball deserves a lot of blame for what happened after the choke call was made by Denkinger. They never should have allowed him to go behind the plate in game 7. By then he and Herzog absolutely hated each other. And Denkinger was such a coward he decided to rub Herzog's face in it. Baseball is better without the likes of Denkinger and stupid owners.
True Denkinger Did Coast The Cards a WS Win in 85 Ask Any St Louis Fan Today and They Will Start Shaking But The Royals Got a Lucky Break Here on That Call!
Denkinger true to gutless form rationalized his behavior. He would not recognize or admit that his crime against baseball was in game 7 when he allowed his personal bias to determine the outcome of not just a game but the World Series. All umps make mistakes, that's part of the job. But to carry it further and allow a mistake to prejudice yourself against a manager, players, organization and fans was beer league bush. Denkinger was unprofessional and a lousy ump. That should be on his tombstone. ua-cam.com/video/cTfRqnhM4Io/v-deo.html
So True But If They Had Replay in 1985 Things Would Had Been Different For Long Time St Louis Cardinals Fans Back Then Before Social Media Today!
George Brett from the royals even admitted Jorge Orta should of been out. 💀
Wouldn’t have made a difference. Orta was still the first out at third. The cards not only blew it in that inning they CHOKED in game 7! They were classic LOSERS and so are their fans! 1985 World champion Kansas City Royals!
@@DoubleStar92 9 more to go to catch up to us bud. We have more history than you so you’d better keep your mouth shut bud.
@@T0mat0_S0up 0-1 against us bud. ☕️ there’s your L 🤡
@@DoubleStar92 Get more rings bud, maybe because your history is complete shit. Also your team sucks and we just signed Arenando, so maybe you should take the L. 🤡
@@DoubleStar92 Aye man can’t we all just chill, we’re brothers from the same mother
Yes, it was rigged. Everyone KNEW that if Denkinger intentionally missed a close call at first, Clark would drop an easy foul ball for an out, Balboni would get a single due to a 3rd baseman playing out of position, and Clark would miss a pitch that got away from him. All these events would lead to 2 runs for KC, both being from runners that weren't the one Denkinger called safe because he was thrown out at third (which he wouldn't have been had he not been called safe in the first place).
Signals safe before he caught the ball .
I was going to post that Dekinger was signaling "safe" before Worrell caught the ball. Its my belief that Denkinger was paid off to blow the series for St Louis.
If only they had replay challenges back then. Too bad baseball wasn't ready for that.
Frank White was called out stealing second in inning 5 and replay shows he was safe. An up the middle single followed which would have scored White from second easily. Was that a rigged call, too? Why do you complain about one bad call and ignore the one that went your team's way?
Btw, Pepitone was safe on Gibson's throw to first in '64 allowing Cards to win that game and then win in 7. Never heard a Card fan complain about that call.
Yep!!! Not rigged.. sorry OP. The Cards couldn't hit at all that World Series... they were not the better team.
@@markcourtneylindhorst4051 where are the boys in blue sucking last place for how many years yes they need a ump , With out theey suck a fat 1.
If this play had occurred in the 1st inning nobody would have remembered it.
Thank God for instant replay. It slows things down a bit but it saves us from arguing about it for the next 30 years.
You mean they should have fixed it sooner so nobody noticed?
There were numerous bad calls that all went in KC's favor in not just the World Series but the ALCS too. The Blue Jays had the Royals beat, but the umps, on the take, made certain that the outcome went the other way.
Fixed... no, worst call in MLB history considering the magnitude... yes. KC did not win that WS.
Except they did. You need to go back and watch game 6 if you don't remember.
This play literally, and I know what literally means, it literally gave me shingles.
If you have a 3-1 series lead, and you lose it, don't blame the umps. The Royals should've scored a run in the 4th inning anyways if it weren't for a blown call then.
different pitches would have been thrown with a guy on 2nd with 1 out instead of no one on and 2 out. Like the Cy Young winning pitcher John Smoltz said, it changes the pitch selection with runners on, you can't assume it would have been that way, because the pitch selection changes.
True, KC wanted it more and they deserved it more.
As a Phillies Fan One of The Worst Calls Ever in MLB Lore That's Clear Out Without Question!
Jorge Orta was out from Here to Topeka!
I love how everyone overlooks the blown call that went the cardinals way and Al Michaels botched Dienkenger's name
BS!
Shit call by shitty ump.
Myst Maybe the Cards should've stayed focused and not let a blown call completely unravel them. Maybe not have Clark miss catching a pop up right in front of him, allow a base hit, a passed ball, and another bass hit, and the fact that their all star player couldn't throw out slow ass sunburg to score the winning run, and do I even need to get started on game seven?
EvilKiller 9930 You are right...just still frustrated when i see this clip just like when i was 6...lol
Myst ok
6? I was 12, and right in the heart of the action since I'm from the St Louis region.
You mean like when the NATIONAL LEAGUE umpire called a clearly safe Frank White out at 2nd, which added a Royals out, and prevented a Royals run on a follow up base hit earlier in Game 6? The blown call at first had zero impact on the outcome. Get over it.
Yea sure, MLB caused Clark and Worrell to botch the play at first, then for Clark to miss Balboni's foul pop up, and also for Porter to commit a passed ball and for the Cardinals to choke in the 9th and only get one out(that on a sacrifice bunt attempt) (1) - Bad calls1st inning - George Brett was called out on a high pitch, with Smith on 3rd and only one out. GB was a great contact hitter and all he had to do was put the ball in play(infield back) for Smith to score. (2) - 4th inning - Frank White is called out at 2nd even though his foot was on the bag when Ozzie Smith tagged him. Pat Sheridan then singles, which would have easily driven in White. So poor calls cost the Royals at least one run and in all likelihood two.
+Dan Paul
they didn't botch the pla you idiot, he was out.
Not according to the umpire.
Stumbling all over the place didn't make the call an easy one.
Frank White was safe at 2nd on his steal attempt early in the game, but was called out, Pat Sheridan followed with a single to right center. White would have scored easily.
George Brett was called out on a high pitch with one out in the 1st with a runner on 3rd.
The Royals overcame some bad calls, the Cardinals did not.
The Cardinals folded like a cheap tent in game 7
It wasn't rigged. If the Cardinals had refocused and got themselves together and not have a meltdown, they would win the series and that call would be meaningless.
That’s not what you would say if a call cost your team the World Series
Yeah the call didn’t make as big of a difference as everyone said it did. That WS wasn’t rigged, Royals just played better than us in the second half of the World Series and were the better team.
Denkinger is the biggest pos for blowing that easy call ever.
the series was over and cards won it. This from an American league fan. Not fan of cards at all
You are misremembering history if you really think that. Go back and research what actually happened all during game 6. ESPN has even covered why you're wrong an they even left out some things I can enlighten you on if you need it.
Bad officiating is a bigger problem than steroids in professional sports.
You know what Instant Replay has come to show in recent years? That these umpires suck overall. The HUGE % of calls that are overturned these days point to the fact that they were never very good overall in calling the close plays correctly.
This from the Denver Post for 2015:
"The Denver Post looked at the percentage of calls overturned of the MLB's 99 umpires in 2015. Of the more than 1,300 plays reviewed this year, 643 (49.2%) were overturned."
Almost half. And the best part of Replay now is that we don't have to endure the umpire's gross arrogance anymore, tossing manager and players out of games, when in reality they should've recused themselves for being wrong half the time!
DD here was just par for the course. No rigging required, just incompetence.
It wasn't rigged, it was just a horrible call that would be overturned in half a second today.
@sdsmt99 Just face it, pro sports is rigged entertainment like WWE. If the call got overturned and the Royals didn't look like they were going to win the World Series, somebody whether an umpire or Cardinals player would make sure a Royals win was the result and we would be debating that rigged result. This would have never had to happen had the Royals been good enough to win the World Series that year but getting a ring for George Brett and Kansas City getting robbed in the 1970s playoffs and in the 1980 World Series, it was their time...the league had to reward them. In the end sports is always rigged. A game operating within a game.
Look at the Tuck Rule game with the Patriots and Raiders in 2001. The Patriots got robbed in 1976 playoff game against the Raiders (year of Raiders first Super Bowl Win) and it was made up to them with the Tuck Rule Game.
As a West Coast fan who does not root for ANY Midwestern Team ... fix? Don't think so. Cover-up of blown call? Absolutely!
I STILL can't watch this without wanting to throw something at the screen!
St louis cardinals 1985 World Champs
Any Cards Fan Today Who's a Life Long Fan Gets So Upset To This Day!
YES WE WAS OUT CARDINALS 1985 WORLD CHAMPS
HE WAS*
Cards were the best team in baseball that year and absolutely fell apart after that call
That's usually what happens in close games when the umpires determine games.
Actually in that world series if you look at it the Cardinals didn't hit well at all... The other thing not having Vince Coleman in the lineup really affected. Willie McGee
Cost the Cardinals the 1985 World Series. KC had the mojo to win game 7.
And the funny thing about all of this was.....JORGE ORTA WAS OUT! It got both Whitey Herzog, and Joaquin Andujar fuming into Game 7 and later ejected from that game. Lol Funny
we currently live in the house that he lived in.. crazy right?
Too bad they didn't use the instant replay back then. It was a bad and/or missed call. This was about as bad or worse than several years later when Christian Laetner hit "the shot" against Kentucky.
It was a rigged call because the game wasn't going the way it was supposed to. Instant replay today doesn't fix games getting rigged. There are way too many replay calls umpires/MLB headquarters review on instant replay and don't make the correct call.
Wait, so this call caused the Cardinals to lose three games in a row? Interesting.
This call was totally blown but no doubt what really had an effect that inning was Jack Clark misplaying the pop-up on Steve balboni..
Nothing I love more than the cards getting screwed over.
Because they're one of the top two franchises in history, you fucking moron. Try reading a book.
And the fact that the commissioner was there kills me like wow
This could be the most moronic statements I've ever seen. There is no way it would have been fixed. Obviously, a fan that cannot just accept a loss. There is a huge difference between a bad call and it being fixed.
Sports games can be fixed. Especially professional sports. To think this game was fixed is moronic? To me it looks ridiculously bad for it to be just a bad call. I'm not a fan of any team, but I have enjoyed watching the sport of baseball for a long time. I do see it as a form of entertainment, rather then taking it seriously and thinking games can't be rigged. Major League Baseball probably wanted to get George Brett a ring and give a championship to Kansas City after never having won one all that time.
I've seen very few humans with the ability to hit a ball coming at them at close to 100 miles an hour while moving, so yeah, you can do anything if you believe hard enough, even hit a spinning ball coming at you faster than US interstate speed!
Was Orta out? No question, and that's coming from a diehard Royals fan. Having said that he did end up thrown out at third base first of all so St. Louis fans can stop bitching. Second of all in the same game St. Louis benefited from another blown call in the 4th inning when Frank White was wrongly called out trying to steal second. If he had been called safe as he should have been, Pat Sheridan would have singled him in on the very next pitch. (The next pitch was a single to center field.) So the way I see it Don Denkinger's blown call in that game was nothing more than karma coming back to bite St. Louis in the ass.
Pitcher needs to throw more pitches, focus on the runner, and that one hit could have fueled the bats of his teammates.
Cole...you are awesome and so right!
like the Cy Young winning pitcher John Smoltz said, no it would have scored him, there would have been a different pitch selection to the batter.
Alan Rubenstein +Alan Rubenstein Thank you, at least someone else gets it. I must also point out that the sports media ignores the blown call in the 4th inning and I think I know why: the umpire who made that call at 2nd base was National League umpire Billy Williams, therefore it was not an American League umpire so the sports media basically doesn't give a damn That and the fact that it wasn't in the 9th inning so why should they care?
You can't assume Sheridan would have singled in White. Pitch selection would have been different with a runner in scoring position than it was with no one on base
Wasn't the first rigged WS and, unfortunately in THIS day and age, won't be the last one...
Of course it was, Herzog bet Pete Rose the Royals would win!
Jude Law That's interesting where did you read that
Man Robert Powell how old are you that was a joke
I don't care that the call was missed which it clearly was. This game was NOT rigged. Jack Clark dropped a pop up that Keith Hernandez catches in his sleep. Darrel Porter & Todd Worrell got mixed up on signs & Game 7 was 11-0 St Louis had nobody to blame but themselves. Oh I'm not insulting the dead but Joaquin Andujar his actions on the field were a disgrace & even worse was the clubhouse bathroom he destroyed with a bat.
My take your up in the series 3-1 and can’t close it out at home . From the middle of game 4 to the end of game 7 you score a total of 2 runs . Yes he was out but you follow that with a missed pop up and a passed ball . Then in game 7 your stud that year Tudor gets blown out . Does not sound like the best team in baseball to me.
Seen it a hundred times. He's still out!
Ask Any Long Time St Louis Cardinals Fan About This Today and They Can Tell U It Was a Out!
It was but at least KC fans are pretty cool, Boston fans are pieces of shit
At least the Royals have their trophy, Cardinals have enough trophies- 4 to Kansas City's 2. Overall championships are not even close at 11 to 2, but the trophy is only 50 in 2017, and in those 50 years, the Cardinals have 4 of them, only the Yankees 7 exceeds them.
Yeah man, it’s fine that the Royals won this one.
All these are rigged thru gematria
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I don't get the title of the video. The umpire blew the call, but I don't see how the poster of the video thinks the game was rigged. Yes, it was a horrible call......but there's no proof that the entire game was rigged
Exactly. The ump made a bad call. Period. But to suggest it was rigged ?? lol....Come on, man
Blown call or not, it wouldn’t have mattered.
1 out or 2, Dane Iorg was still gonna bat, and would have knocked one out of the yard if he had to.
The patron Saint of pinch hitters…
St. Louis should have never traded him. :D
Evidently, you've never played the game or laced a pair of cleats in your life then. They (St Louis) were 1 strike away from winning the 85-WS. YES, this blown call mattered.
@@thecrimsonknight4756 lol still upset about that call after all of these years huh?
YES IT WAS
That game was still the Cardinals after the missed call. Instead of letting it go and playing on, they were being crybabies. There was a wild pitch and a foul pop up that their 1st Baseman or Catcher didn't catch and they still could have won the Series in Game 7 but they got their butts 11-0 and they deserved it. Don Denkinger DID NOT cost the Cardinals the 1985 World Series, the Cardinals cost the Cardinals the 1985 World Series.
Yeah I guess, I think it was a bad call but I don’t think it was as bad as everyone says it is. It’s fine we have a lot of World Series and KC only has 2, they wanted it more and deserved it
safe
Rigged city
No, it wasn't rigged. It's called "human error."
rigged isn't the word i would use. a better choice might be scripted. just like every other show on television
@sixmax11 The umpire or some of them always are aware of the script. In this case the umpire is rigging the result because the Cardinals had a chance to win. I don't think the Cardinal players getting upset have an clue about the script. I'm sure some players were aware though.
No, it was a bad call but NO WAY it was fixed. I say that and I am a Cardinal fan. If you want to see an example of something that was fixed, watch the 1972 Olympic basketball game between The United States and The Soviet Union. That was fixed. This was not.
The USA robbed and the silver medal remains unclaimed
Yeah man it was a bad call, but that WS wasn’t fixed
Do you know if the Palestine situation is real. ? Gaza being an open air prison and all that. Land grab, persecution, apartheid .
@gb3ulyct Have you ever watched Pallywood or searched UA-cam for fakery in Palestine?
Had to be something because this was some BS!!!!
in that time there isn' t replay
Funny because the video shows 3 replays. And the announcer calls out the replays so he sees them. How could they not have somehow relayed that to the umpires
Because they didnt use replay. WHY IS THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?
back in the 80's umpires didn't overturn calls, and what they said on the field stood, look at the 1991 Gant play at first base in the World Series.
"Don Denkinger, Umpire #11, made one of the worse blown calls in Major League Baseball history"
That was NOT anywhere close to "one of the worse blown calls in Major League Baseball history"
Besides being a pretty close play (I know it wasn't bang bang, and YOU would've gotten it right in your sleep), it was not a normal play, pretty hard to even predict who and how the it would end up. Besides the race to the base, in full speed it actually looks like the pitcher might have pulled his foot. Bugs me that in all the slow-motion replays they don't let the footage roll after the ball hits the glove. Honestly I don't think he pulled his foot, but at full speed it looks weird, and that might have been part of what went into Denkinger's split second decision. I do believe he called it way too fast though. One or two seconds of delay is way better than any missed call.
In the end though, that call was not even close to being responsible for the outcome of the game, let alone the series.
The only big call I can think of being responsible for an outcome is Jim Joyce's safe call for the last out of Armando Galarraga's perfect game.
(and BTW, imagine if more people could handle sh*t the way that kid handled that. priceless)
This is no proof sorry just a close call
@Stupid What else would be proof to you?
1985 was a complete fix. The KC Royals benefited from the most corrupt umpiring in history, not just in the WS, the ALCS was also fixed, the umps gave them that series too over the Blue Jays. Some gamblers, with a lot of money, paid a bunch of umpires off so that a truly mediocre team would win against two superior teams; Blue Jays and Cards.
Hank Murphy Maybe the Cards should've stayed focused and not let a blown call completely unravel them. Maybe not have Clark miss catching a pop up right in front of him, allow a base hit, a passed ball, and another bass hit, and the fact that their all star player couldn't throw out slow ass sunburg to score the winning run, and do I even need to get started on game seven? They lost, get over it and shut the fuck up!
@@EvilKiller-jl5yl Yeah they should have just kept playing but instead they focused too much on the call
Clark's toss was off line and caused Worrell to stop, throw all his weight backward, and reach back for the throw; you can see that this caused him to pull his foot off the bag, and if you watch Denkinger, he swipes his arm sideways to indicate that THAT is what he based his GOOD call on. Cardinals and their fans, sorest losers ever, .... just like this year, ... when the Cubs kicked the livin' shit out of 'em ... ;) ...
Denkinger says in an interview posted on you tube you can find very easily that he blew the call. Denkinger said it is too bad baseball did not have instant reply challenges like they do now...the call would have been reversed........dufus....
Good call??
This comment section is killing me 🤦♂️
Here’s why the Cardinals weren’t cheated out of a World Series. I’m about to point out some stuff, so strap in.
1) Orta was obviously out, I’m not denying that, but he was thrown out at third a little bit later in the inning and was the first out of the inning, like he would have been had he actually been called out at first. Now let’s assume he was called out at first for a bit. Both batters after him still get base hits, passed ball occurs, advancing the runners, and Iorg hits the game winning single. Barely anything would have changed except for the fact that he was thrown out at 1st instead of 3rd
2) St Louis was handed 2 free outs, but botched them both. First, the pop fly foul, and second, the throw to home on the final play of the game. Had the catcher been just a bit further back, that’s an out 100%, and if they got both, it would have sent the game to extra innings, but they didn’t. These were EASY OUTS.
3) Earlier in game 6, frank white was called out on 2nd base during an attempt to steal, but he was pretty clearly safe. The next batter up got a base hit, which would have scored White easily if the correct call was made. If that had happened, the score would have been 1-1 in the 9th, not 1-0, which means Kansas City still wins in both scenarios (the one that happened and the one I just explained) even if Orta is out.
4) They led 3-1 and allowed a game 7. Enough said
5) I’m sure by now a lot of people are thinking that “iT cHaNgEd tHe MoMeNtUm” but that meltdown was completely on the Cardinals. Instead of acting like crybabies when one call didn’t go their way, they should have kept their cool, like the royals did after their blown call, and they might have actually won game 7, or maybe have been able to end it in game 6.
6) St Louis still had a chance in game 7, but instead of showing up, they let the blown call from game 6 get to their heads and lost 11-0. ELEVEN TO ZERO. That is completely on the Cardinals. They shit the bed in game 7.
The St Louis Cardinals choked, plain and simple.
TL,DR: That blown call didn’t cost St Louis the series, their errors in game 6 and lack of showing up in game 7 did.
The Fix Was In For The Royals. This video clip clearly shows umpire Don Denkinger making the worst call in World Series history. You talk about Game 7, well guess who was behind the plate calling balls and strikes? Don Denkinger. Major League Baseball allowed this after his Game 6 performance. I mean come on man, wake up. This guy coordinated the outcomes of Game 6 and Game 7. This is easy as pie to figure out. Do you know Don Denkinger appeared at sports memorabilia shows signing his name to photos of the Game 6 blown call? What else do you need to understand the 1985 World Series was in you face rigged?
@@QuestioningOurReality If you would have actually read my comment, you’d know that I’m not denying that it was a horrible call. He definitely was out, but ONE call going the royals way doesn’t mean it’s rigged. It was an honest mistake by the ump because in real time from his angle it might have been pretty hard to call. Also, you say that the fix was in for the royals but what people tend to ignore or forget about is that earlier in the game there was a more significant blown call AGAINST THE ROYALS. Frank White was called out at 2nd when he was clearly safe. The next batter hit a single which would easily have scored White. So it’s tied 1-1 in the 9th and Don gets the call correct at 1st. The royals still would have gotten at least 1 run from Iorg’s single, so they would have won either way. Another thing is in either game one or two, a runner for the royals, can’t remember the name, was called out at HOME when he was clearly safe. This sounds familiar, huh? Had that call been made correct, the Royals could have won in 5 or 6 games. Still, you can’t blame the Umps for the Cardinals botching 2 free outs that would have won them the series. Not to mention that the Cards had a chance to end it in St Louis and not even go to a game 6, but botched that too. They choked, it’s that simple. Maybe you should actually do some research or watch the rest of the series before jumping on the “hating on Don Denkinger” bandwagon.
I've watched the clip of Frank White. That one looked like an honest mistake by the umpire. Not every umpire (or player) is in on the fix. This play in this video is a big deal compared to the other calls by umpires in that 1985 World Series. I point out again umpire Don Denkinger signs photos of his famous blown call. Why is this happening? If this blown call isn't a big deal compared to others then why is Denkinger showing up to sports memorabilia shows to make money off of signed photos of the blown call? It's a tell.
I don't hate Denkinger. That's you distorting what's going on here. Are you like related to him or what? I've simply pointed out a blown call in the 1985 World Series that altered the outcome of who won the series.
Baseball is rigged and this is a great example. George Brett got a ring in 1985 because of Denkinger. That's not to say he got robbed in previous playoff runs with the Royals. Still, the way the game is played is not fair and there is an agenda on a yearly basis for a certain team to win and 1985 was supposed to be the Royals year. Sometimes guys like Brett get rewarded for "playing along" and not questioning what is the norm in Major League Baseball. I wouldn't be surprised if the Royals could've been the champs in the late 1970s with all their ALCS appearances but did they get a fair shake against the Yankees or was the fix in for New York to be the champs because with Reggie in '77 and '78? I'm sure the Phillies got help from the umpires in 1980 to beat the Royals in the World Series. It doesn't have to be blatant bad calls for these teams to win. Sometimes players "choke" and go hitless or make a defensive error on purpose or a pitcher tips his pitches. The ways a game is rigged is endless but this video shows a blatant not even trying to hide it example.
@@QuestioningOurReality … how are you going to say that the frank white call was an honest mistake but the Orta call was an obvious example of why it’s rigged? Now you just sound like an angry Cards fan that has resorted to using Denkingers call as a scapegoat. This is hilarious 😂 Also, you cant use him signing photos as an excuse to say the series was rigged. That’s just stupid. St Louis also missed out on 2 free outs that would have ended the series in game 6 and then didn’t bother to show up in game 7. The Cardinals performance in the last 10 innings of the series was embarrassing. That blown call didn’t cost them anything except for *maybe* their momentum, but letting it affect them was their own fault. Instead of letting the call get to their heads and not staying focused, they should have got their act back together and closed it out, which they could have easily done. The royals did it multiple times. They had this one in the bag if they would have just stayed focused, so I’m gonna say it again, the Cardinals choked, simple as that. Quit trying to make excuses.
he was safe and the Royals won get over it
yeah, that's why everyone calling the play says he's out. It wasn't that which made the Cardinals lose, it was the hits after, along with the passed ball.
Royals were given the ALCS and the WS by bought off umps. Total fix.
Nope we beat them 3 other games
He was out, but I don’t really care
The league doesn't fix games. Some umps will due to what's at stake. lol
Uh...I can not stand the lousy broadcaster Al Michaels !
Youre kidding right? He is the best announcer of his generation. Has announced the the WS, SB, NBA Finals and a gold medal hockey game.
and unlike Joe Buck he actually was neutral!
You're s******* me right who's the better broadcaster