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During Fox's broadcast of the 2002 World Series, Joe Buck paid implicit tribute to his father, who had died only a few months earlier ( he had read the eulogy at his father's funeral ), by calling the final out of Game 6 ( which tied the series at 3 – 3, and thus ensured there would be a Game 7 broadcast the next night ) with the phrase, " We'll see you tomorrow night.

" This was the same phrase with which Jack Buck had famously called Kirby Puckett's home run off Braves pitcher Charlie Leibrandt which ended Game 6 of the 1991 World Series.

Since then Joe has continued to use this phrase at appropriate times, including Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS, in which the Boston Red Sox famously rallied off of New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera in the 9th inning to avoid elimination.

When David Ortiz's walk-off home run finally won it for the Red Sox in the 12th inning, Buck uttered " We'll see you later tonight ," alluding to the fact that the game had extended into the early morning.

He also used the phrase at the end of Game 6 of the 2011 World Series when the Cardinals ' David Freese hit a walk-off home run in the 11th inning against the Rangers to send the series to a seventh game ( it was actually 20 years and a day since Kirby Puckett's home run ).

The similarity of both the call and the game situation resulted in mentions on national news broadcasts.