Why can't baseball be this exciting all 162 games throughout the season? The Minnesota Twins just clinched the AL Central after beating the Detroit Tigers in a 12 inning thriller of a tie-breaker game after being 7 games behind the Tigers just over a week ago.
The game was highlighted by Fernando Rodney (the Tigers closer) pitching four clutch innings, several close plays at home plate, and the Twins' Carlos Gomez scoring the game winning run in the bottom of the 12th.
Now this isn't the first exhilarating walk-off tie breaker game in the MLB. Just two years ago in 2007 the Colorado Rockies beat the San Diego Padres in 13 innings, ending with the controversial play at home plate ending in umpire Tim McClelland calling Matt Holliday safe. The Rockies road this momentum straight to the World Series where they met their match in the Boston Red Sox.
And don't forget about last year's 1-0 shutout win for the Chicago White Sox over this years victors, the Minnesota Twins.
I don't know if this is because of the magnitude of the games, but these tie-breaker games have become what I feel is the best that baseball has to offer in big games, next to maybe a game seven in the LCS or World Series.
If all of the baseball season, or at least the baseball playoffs were like this baseball could reclaim it's place as America's favorite past-time. I mean, we can't always have the Red Sox coming back from three down over the Yankees to beat them and break the curse of the bambino.
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