"The night of Sept. 28, 2011, is one that will be celebrated for decades and chronicled as one of the most magical few-hour spans the game has ever seen. But for two cities and two franchises, it will be remembered as a dark night that served as a fitting gut-punch from a month gone very, very bad.
In Boston and Atlanta, they will try to forget 9/28/11, but the sting might linger until the next champagne celebration.
The Red Sox and Braves were postseason-bound teams for most of the summer. And when September arrived, they had everything but the corks to prove that their seasons weren't going to end after Game No. 162. "