The 2011 Major League Baseball wild card chase culminated in one of the most dramatic regular-season finales in history, known as "Game 162" on September 28, 2011. The Boston Red Sox and Atlanta Braves both held massive September leads—9 and 8.5 games respectively—but suffered historic collapses, going 7–17 and 8–16, allowing the Tampa Bay Rays and St. Louis Cardinals to tie them going into the last day. In the American League, the Rays erased a 7–0 deficit against the Yankees, with Dan Johnson hitting a game-tying homer in the 9th and Evan Longoria a walk-off shot in the 12th, moments after the Orioles beat the Red Sox on a walk-off single. Meanwhile, the Cardinals clinched the NL wild card after the Braves lost to the Phillies in 13 innings. These four teams made history as the first to blow leads of eight or more games in September and miss the postseason, with Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci calling the final day "the most thrilling 129 minutes in baseball history." The Cardinals rode this momentum to win the World Series, and the 2011 season marked the end of the single wild card format, as MLB added a second wild card team per league starting in 2012.