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Roger Mooney covers the Tampa Bay Rays for The Tampa Tribune, TBO.com and News Channel 8. He has covered the Rays since their first season in 1998, including 11 years for the Bradenton Herald. Roger has also covered Florida, South Florida and Florida State football, the Bucs and the Lightning.

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Sam Fuld’s take on Game 162

Posted Feb 21, 2012 by Roger Mooney

Updated Feb 21, 2012 at 07:40 PM

ROGER MOONEY

“I like to consider myself a coordinated person. I make a living running after baseballs in the outfield, sometimes dodging bullpen mounds, dancing along unpadded walls, even leaping over oncoming teammates on occasion. I think I could more than hold my own on those Japanese obstacle course TV shows. But when Evan Longoria lined a walk-off homer in the bottom of the 12th inning against the Yankees during the last game of the 2011 season to put us in the playoffs, and it came time to climb the three steps that lead from our dugout to the field, I lost all semblance of body control. I ate it. Face-first.”

And so begins Sam Fuld’s tale of Game 162, which he wrote for grantland.com.

It’s a great first-person look at one of the most dramatic nights in baseball history, certainly the most dramatic night of the 2011 regular season and second only to the Rays win against the Red Sox in Game 7 of the 2008 ALCS as the most dramatic night in team history.

Some will argue the Rays comeback win Sept. 28, 2011 against the Yankees, which happened minutes after the Red Sox choked away their season, rivals Game 7 for the most incredible night in Rays history.

Anyway, the rest of Fuld’s tale can be found here http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7593528/sam-fuld-tampa-bay-rays-win-new-york-yankees-game-162-2011-regular-season