Breaking news? More like broken news.
In a bit of premature celebration, the Fox affiliate for the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area sent out a news alert message regarding the Texas Rangers and the World Series on its iPhone app Thursday night.
In KDFW's defense, most people watching and covering Thursday night's Game 6 around 10:30 p.m. CT probably thought the Rangers had this one in the bag.
Solo home runs by Adrian Beltre and Nelson Cruz, along with an RBI single by Ian Kinsler, had given Texas a three-run lead after seven innings. And with Derek Holland, Mike Adams and Neftali Feliz available to close it out, a World Series clinching victory looked almost inevitable.
As we know, it didn't quite turn out that way, thanks to several late-inning heroics by the St. Louis Cardinals resulting in a 10-9, 11-inning win to force a decisive final game. Oops.
KDFW might get the chance to resend those text alerts Friday night, if the Rangers manage to win Game 7. If not, maybe those alerts can be salvaged by sending them to third world countries.
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