'Doesn't get any better ' than Andrus' Game 2 defense

Rangers infielder says he's never made better play in bigger situation

updated 10:16 p.m. ET Oct. 22, 2011

Tony DeMarco

ARLINGTON, Texas - With Ian Kinsler as his witness, Elvis Andrus says he has made that spectacular glove-flip play before.

Surely, if you didn't see it in the fifth inning of Game 2, you've caught the replay by now. It's only been aired a couple hundred times, and you have to think we'll be seeing it for years to come.

Andrus making a diving stop on Rafael Furcal's hard smash up the middle, then from the edge of the outfield grass, making a glove flip of about 25 feet right to Kinsler on the bag at second for a force out to end the inning and strand two Cardinals runners.

"I don't know if I've made a better play,'' Andrus said afterward. "I have made that kind of play a couple times. No, not in the World Series. The fact that it was in the World Series makes it real special. It's a play I'm never going to forget. You can't practice it. It's instinct, reaction. You have to be focused. In those situations, you have to help the pitcher.''

Asked if that was the best play he's seen Andrus make, Kinsler -- his double-play partner -- actually said: "There are a couple others that come to mind.''

And then he added: But yeah, being that it was a World Series game and that was a run-saving play, that was ridiculous. It was one of the best I've seen, not just by (Andrus), but one of I've the best I've seen. The glove flip was right on the money. It doesn't get any better than that.''

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