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Starters: Steve Avery vs. Scott Erickson WP: Rick Aguilera   LP: Charlie Leibrandt HR: ATL: Terry Pendleton (5th); MIN: Kirby Puckett (11th)

In Minnesota, fans waved the Twins to victory with their "Homer Hankies," while in Atlanta, fans urged on the Braves with the controversial "Tomahawk Chop." Through the first five games, the home team prevailed each time.

For Game 6, the scene (and the home-field advantage) shifted back to the deafening cacophony of Minnesota's Metrodome. In a rematch of Game 3 (a 12-inning classic in its own right won by the Braves) a young Scott Erickson faced an even younger Steve Avery. But the player that everyone would be talking about after the game was the Twins' future Hall-of-Famer Kirby Puckett.

Puckett was a one-man gang for the Twins, knocking in two runs, scoring another, and robbing the Braves of still another with a gravity-defying snare of a Ron Gant drive to the wall in the third. But thanks to a game-tying homer by Terry Pendleton in the seventh, Puckett would need to produce even more.

The game remained tied at three through the eleventh when Atlanta skipper Bobby Cox sent Game 1 starter Charlie Leibrandt, the veteran left-hander, to the hill to face the heart of the Twins' order. He never even got past Puckett. The first batter up that inning, Puckett capped his performance by driving the game winner into the seats in left-center to force a Game 7.

When all was said and done, five games were decided by one run, four were won on the final play, three went into extra innings, and the home team won every contest in a Series that played its final game in Minnesota.

Copyright 1991 by the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball