September 28, 2011 was one of the greatest baseball nights ever. Four teams were playing for the two Wild Card spots. At the beginning of the month, the Red Sox and Braves were ahead in their races by 8+ games. But then things started to unravel in an amazingly parallel fashion. On this night, the Red Sox and Rays were tied, and the Braves and Cards were tied. Would there be a Game 163? Two of them?
Here are two articles from the New York Times recapping the unlikely (to say the least) turn of events of the last night of the regular season.
First, more of the human side of things:
And, the cold hard numbers (and, of course, a Buckner reference):