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The drama and unforgettable images of baseball are the World Series moments etched in our minds and celebrated from generation to generation. These dynamic events are preserved and commemorated in MLB's annual World Series films.
Starring: Joe Buck, Rafael Furcal, Skip Schumaker, Albert Pujols, Lance BerkmanSport | 100% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
Spanish: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
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25GB Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)
DVD copy
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 4.0 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 2.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
It may not exactly have the makings of a fantastic drinking game, but it might at least provide some passing amusement to count how many times the Fox Sports anchors ask “Can the Cardinals come back from this?” as the epochal sixth game of the 2011 World Series between the St. Louis Cards and the Texas Rangers plays—and plays and plays—out. This game has already gone down in the history books, and in fact ESPN deemed it the greatest game in the history of baseball, which may or may not be debatable, but which at least helps to highlight just how amazed both the public at large and industry professionals were the day after the game aired in late October 2011. The entire 2011 World Series was summed up in the excellent Major League Baseball release 2011 World Series Champions: St. Louis Cardinals, but that release covered everything from the regular season to the post season to the actual World Series and thus couldn’t spend a huge amount of time on just the sixth game of the Series, despite its mind boggling aspects. This new release simply reproduces the Fox broadcast from the evening, minus a few bumpers and including a couple of fairly clunky edits in and out of what were commercial breaks. It’s a “you are there” sort of release, one which features a cascading series of incredible events which are met with a certain amount of appropriate incredulity by the on air personalities. The game originally ran four hours and thirty plus minutes, with commercials, and even here, shorn of those revenue producing breaks (well, mostly anyway—more about that later), this release runs well over three and a half hours, some indication of what an epic battle was waged that frosty night at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.
Baseball's Greatest Games: 2011 World Series Game 6 is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of A + E Networks Home Entertainment with an AVC encoded 1080i transfer in 1.78:1. This port over of Fox's broadcast of that evening looks appropriately sharp and well defined, with excellently saturated color and decent overall contrast. There are some niggling issues to contend with here, including passing flare from some stadium lights and minor shimmer aliasing on some close cropped patterns like the chain link fence surrounding the bullpen. Otherwise, though, this presentation offers great fine detail and features a wealth of really fantastic coverage, a testament to the floor (stadium?) director for this broadcast, who manages to catch an amazing amount of action on the fly (no pun intended).
Baseball's Greatest Games: 2011 World Series Game 6 features a really nicely rendered lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix that offers some fantastic immersion in terms of the roar of the crowds filling the stands of St. Louis' Busch Stadium, as well as nicely directional moments when close-ups catch various groups of guys either on the field or in the bullpen. Fidelity is very strong throughout the broadcast, and the Fox Sports anchors' voices are clear and easy to hear throughout, even over some of the manic reactions of the crowds as the ninth through eleventh innings play out in their increasing improbability. There are some clunky audio edits at places where the original broadcast segued to commercials, but otherwise this is a very solid and involving track that really nicely recreates not just the original broadcast ambience but also what it must have been like to have been in the stadium for this game.
Three alternate play by play radio broadcasts are included as other audio options, one from St. Louis Radio Network, one from Texas Radio Network and a third Spanish Language option. These play by play broadcasts do not always synch up perfectly with the television broadcast, and so there are some long pauses of no audio. Therefore don't be alarmed if you chapter skip ahead while listening to one of these alternate broadcasts and don't hear any audio for a while. For the record, the DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 audio specs listed above refer to these radio broadcasts.
Baseball's Greatest Games: 2011 World Series Game 6 is a hugely enjoyable way to revisit one of the most improbable games ever played in the long, storied history of baseball, let alone a championship. Things may get off to a slow and even comical start, but anyone who loves this game (and maybe even those who don't care one whit for it) will find their hearts in their throats at the bottom of the ninth, and then again in the bottom of the tenth. Watching David Freese work his magic not once, but twice, is certainly among the most memorable moments ever in the history of professional sports. This release has excellent video and audio, as well as some nice alternate play by play broadcasts in the audio options, and it comes Recommended.
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