Legendary moments and Busch Stadium go together like few other combos, to the point where Budweiser¡¯s marketing tagline is, quite literally, ¡°celebrating legendary moments.¡±

So it should be no surprise that the list of the top Cardinals moments in their home park is rife with prime selections, hard to limit to a list of just five. But let¡¯s try.

For the purposes of this exercise, we¡¯re limiting ourselves to Busch Stadium II and onwards (i.e. from 1966-present).

1)?¡°We will see you ¡­ tomorrow night¡±
Date: Oct. 27, 2011
Sure, you could give the 2011 clincher the top spot, but given Game 6¡¯s lore and build-up, we¡¯ll go with the moment whose legend lives on. You know how it goes: Down 3-2 in the World Series to the mighty Texas Rangers, and down 7-5 with two outs in the ninth inning, David Freese laced a ball over the head of Nelson Cruz and raced all the way to third for a two-run, game-tying triple. The Rangers took the lead back in the 10th and Lance Berkman tied it in the bottom of the frame -- setting up Freese¡¯s immortal homer onto the batter¡¯s eye in the 11th.

2) Ozzie sends things to Game 6
Date: Oct. 14, 1985
While Freese¡¯s home run was of much larger magnitude, and his overall World Series performance made him a hero in St. Louis, Ozzie Smith¡¯s walk-off blast in the 1985 NLCS was a crowning moment for a king already. It also spawned one of Jack Buck¡¯s most legendary calls: ¡°Go crazy, folks! Go crazy!¡± And Busch Stadium did.

3) Seat Cushion Night
Date: April 18, 1987
It was merely the 10th game of the 1987 season when Tom Herr blasted a walk-off grand slam for a 12-8 win over the Mets. It improved the Cardinals to 6-4 during a season when they¡¯d win the pennant but lose the World Series to the Twins. In the grand scheme of that year, it was a nice win. Then the 41,942 fans in attendance started chucking their giveaway seat cushions onto the field, and it became a moment in time.

Though the stakes were low, we¡¯re giving this one a bump for its sentimental, cultish place in Cardinals lore.

4) Big Mac hits No. 62
Date: Sept. 8, 1998
The epic home run chase of the 1998 season came to a poetic head on this September evening, with Mark McGwire smashing his 62nd home run to pass Roger Maris for the single-season record -- while his lone competitor in the chase, Sammy Sosa, was standing in right field at Busch Stadium II as the ball sailed beyond the left-field wall. Big Mac would homer eight more times in the summer of ¡®98, including five alone in the final home series of the season against the Expos. But this one -- with Sosa in tow -- set him apart.

5) Albert makes his return
Dates: June 21-23, 2019
The Cardinals faithful had to wait eight years in order to welcome Albert Pujols back to Busch Stadium, after he signed his megadeal with the Angels. But The Machine¡¯s return to St. Louis was a magical one, with a full Busch Stadium on its feet for what seemed the entirety of the three-game set. There was constant applause for one of the franchise¡¯s all-time greats, a hug from Yadier Molina and a hat tip from Adam Wainwright. And when Pujols hammered a homer in Game 2, Busch Stadium erupted.

Honorable mentions
Lou Brock gave Busch Stadium II a trio of seminal moments, when he set the single-season stolen-base record with his 105th on Sept. 10, 1974, when he set the all-time record with his 893rd on Aug. 29, 1977, and when he laced his 3,000th hit on Aug. 13, 1979. Hard to pick just one entry for this list. ¡­ Their homers came in very different circumstances, as Jim Edmonds and Matt Adams provided two different Busch Stadiums with two different marquee moments, with Edmonds¡¯ blast walking off Game 6 of the 2004 NLCS and Matt Adams¡¯ 7th-inning homer proving the game-winner in the decisive Game 4 of the 2014 NLDS. ¡­ And who can forget the 2006 World Series clincher, when Wainwright delivered Strike 3 to Molina to end a 24-year ¡°drought¡± and christen Busch Stadium III in its first year of existence.