After a strike-shortened 1981 season, baseball came back strong in 1982. In particular, the World Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals, dubbed the Suds Series, came down to a great last call.

Behind a temperamental starting pitcher and clutch hitting, St. Louis, home of Anheuser-Busch, beat Milwaukee, home of Miller, 6-3, in Game 7. The Cardinals brought home their first championship in 15 years, and catcher Darrell Porter was named series MVP.

Every day from now to Spring Training, MLB.com Live will air a classic game on Baseball's Best. Game 7 of the 1982 World Series can be seen on Tuesday at 10 a.m. CT.

In a rematch of Game 3, Milwaukee's Pete Vuckovich went up against St. Louis right-hander Joaquin Andujar in an aces affair. Vuckovich won the American League Cy Young Award in 1982, and Andujar finished second in the National League with a 2.47 ERA.

The self-described "one tough Dominican," Andujar gritted through Game 7 after getting nailed in the right leg by a Ted Simmons liner that forced him out of Game 3. He held Milwaukee to three runs -- two earned -- in seven innings to finish the series 2-0 with a 1.35 ERA in two starts.

Andujar wasn't done with his last pitch. After getting Jim Gantner to ground out to end the seventh, he and Gantner exchanged verbal barbs.

In a postgame news conference, Andujar said Gantner called him a "hot dog," followed by one of George Carlin's seven dirty words. Andujar's comeback was even more profane, as he was being escorted off the field by umpire Lee Weyer.

Meanwhile, St. Louis handed Vuckovich his second straight loss, knocking him out with 10 hits in 5 1/3 innings. That sixth inning proved pivotal. Down 3-1, the Cardinals put five men on in a row. After Bob McClure replaced Vuckovich, singles by Keith Hernandez and George Hendrick drove in three runs to take a 4-3 lead. The Cardinals added a pair of insurance runs in the eighth.

The Brewers relievers faltered without 1981 AL MVP Rollie Fingers, who stayed home with an arm injury. The Cardinals bullpen featured a healthy Bruce Sutter, who finished what Andujar started and threw two scoreless innings to close it out. In a series that went the distance, a simple Hall of Fame bullpen edge may have made the ultimate difference.

The Brewers still got a parade, but went dry after 1982. The club waited through 26 years, a league change and a stadium switch before returning to the playoffs in 2008. The Cardinals reached the World Series twice more in the 1980s, losing in Game 7s to the Royals in 1985 and the Twins in 1987.