Freese wins World Series MVP after magical October

Freese wins World Series MVP after magical October: ST. LOUIS - David Freese gave credit to Albert Pujols to install it on the right path. He praised the manager Tony La Russa for his faith in him. He thanked Mark McGwire for swing tips that dividends are paid, few could have imagined.

Just maybe, Freese should give a little credit to himself.

Native child who once threw a baseball finished off October to remember the World Series MVP with a Friday night. St. Louis Cardinals wrapped up their 11th championship in dramatic fashion, winning 6.2 over Texas Rangers in the first Game 7 since 2002.

Freese batted .348 for the series, with seven RBIs, three doubles and one large Homer. He fourth player the Cardinals to win the award MVP, joining Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson in 1964 and '67, catcher Darrell Porter in 1982 and David Eckstein in 2006, a victory over Detroit.

Freese drove in 21 runs in the postseason, breaking the previous record.

"I have had many days in my life when I thought that I would not be even close to the big leagues," Freese said. "I'm here because everyone around me They've already invested so much trust in me for not only baseball, but the only things in life, and do it -. I'm just full of joy, at last."

Freese was burned to baseball after a standout career in the suburbs of St. Louis, so he decided to reject the proposal of a scholarship from Missouri, just to be a college student. He even rebuffed Tigers coaches when they call in the middle of his first term, to make sure that he changed his mind.

It was not until about a year after graduation, that itches to play, finally returned.

Freese gave up and went to St. Louis Community College-Meremec, and his play there caught the attention of the coaching staff at South Alabama. Freeze flourished in the ninth round pick of the draft Padres "in 2006 and trade the Cardinals finally took him home.

"If you write a story like this - a guy gets traded, returns to his hometown, he is a hero - if you sent that to the script, he would get thrown back in your face," commissioner Bud Selig said.

It was not perfect fairy tale, though. It would be too easy.

After he arrived in St. Louis Freese was arrested for DUI and found that the blood alcohol level of 0.232 - almost three times the legal limit. He needed a season-ending surgery to repair a torn tendon in his right ankle last year, and he broke his left hand when he was hit by pitch this season. He was hit by another pitch in August and had a concussion.

Every time he came back better than before.

"I'm so proud of him," said McGuire. "I kept telling him that it shows the character when you start to break through these walls, these stumbling blocks. There's always something good at the end of the road, and here it is."

Freese hit three run Homer in Game 6 of the NLCS against Milwaukee, earning the MVP of this series. His performance against the Rangers made him the sixth player to be a player league championship series World Series in one season.

Until the Cardinals' last shot in Game 6, tying Freese delivered two run triple in the ninth inning Thursday night. Vries then one better: leadoff Homer in 11th, which gave St. Louis a dramatic victory and forced the first Game 7 since 2002.

"You Game 6 performance, David, will be one for the ages," Selig said, in announcing the award MVP. "I'm sure it's a dream for the native of St. Louis."

It is often forgotten in a ruler, which shows Pujols, Matt Holliday and Lance Berkman, Freese left his own impression of the greatest baseball stage if necessary.

Holliday fought most of the series before dislocating his right wrist during Game 6, taking him to the roster Friday. Pujols intentionally walked whenever he was threatened.

Freese made the Rangers pay for thinking that he is easily out.

"I said, I have no words to describe David Freese more", Pujols said. "A modest man, he liked me as soon as we received it. To go through what he has done in his career, just shows who is David Freese."

In Knife World Series, with the game in the sixth inning connected, Freese delivered on time twice. He quickly moved to third base on a wild field, which allowed him to score easily for a possible winning run on a single Allen Craig in right field.

Freese scored the Cardinals' only run in a 2-1 loss in Game 2, and then drove in a pair of runs in 16.7 victory in Game 3 - a performance that will be forever overshadowed by Pujols "three homers.

Nobody could outshine Freeze in Game 6.

After committing a critical error when a pop-up easily popped out of his glove, Frieze with a vengeance for it with his bat. Up until his final blow, his two run triple in the ninth forced extra innings, and he joined the Bill Mazeroski, Carlton Fisk, Kirby Puckett and Joe Carter, as only players to hit a game of infinite Homer in Game 6 or later Fall Classic.

This is a pretty select company.

Much like the company, which he will enjoy as a World Series MVP.

"I have had many days in my life when I thought, you know, I would not even be close to the big leagues," Freese said. "I'm here because of all around me. They put so much trust in me to accomplish, not just baseball, but things in life. To do this, I'm just full of joy."