Two teams, one night, zero chill — the greatest comeback story baseball ever wrote.
Crazy sums up the final night of the baseball season, when the Tampa Bay Rays and St. Louis Cardinals overcame improbably long odds and huge September deficits to waltz into the post-season as wild cards. As part of the Walk-Off Stories series, this film takes a deep look at September 28, 2011 – the dramatic final day of the 2011 Major League Baseball season with playoff berths on the line.
Direction
Weinbach weaves four games into one breathless crescendo.
Editing
Seamless cuts between ballparks build unbearable parallel tension.
Director
Jon Weinbach
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Game 162' documentary label exists because of this night — MLB had to invent new language for what happened.
This night killed the 'Wild Card is a consolation prize' argument forever; now it's a strategic battlefield.
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