WEBVTT 1 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:24.039 Hello, and welcome to bat Flips and Nerds, the Baseball 2 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:28.320 Podcast with a British twist. I am your host this evening, 3 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:32.719 Ben Carter. I am joined by Darius Austin. Darius, imagine 4 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:36.799 not loving baseball couldn't be me. What did we see last. 5 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:38.600 Night couldn't be me. 6 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:42.600 It might be the best baseball game I've ever waved. 7 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:45.079 I think it was. It was extraordinary from start to 8 00:00:45.079 --> 00:00:48.359 finish pretty much. There wasn't a moment that you felt 9 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:51.119 like the tension and had dropped. I think the closest 10 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:53.320 we got was maybe when the Chet hit the home 11 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:55.479 run and it felt like, oh, maybe the boys are 12 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:57.679 going to pull away here. But we can get into 13 00:00:57.719 --> 00:00:59.759 all of that. Yeah, it was. It was a tremendous game. 14 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:02.920 Everybody watching it live was kind of losing their minds 15 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:05.640 and they just sort of kept stacking things up on 16 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:07.000 top of it as well. It was when you're like, 17 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:09.400 already like that, this is ridiculous, and there did another 18 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:12.439 six things after that that were also ridiculous. 19 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:15.000 It was an insane game. 20 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:17.879 It feels like we could do a five parta just 21 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:19.879 on last night's game, and at some point I imagine 22 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:23.200 there will be oral histories and stuff to talk through 23 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:25.879 this whole series. But we thought, yeah, what an insane game. 24 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:28.040 Let's jump on very quickly talk about some of the 25 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:31.480 crazy things that happened. I cannot imagine being a fan 26 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:34.040 of either at those two teams. 27 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:36.840 I was. I didn't stay up late for it, Darius. 28 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:37.359 I know that you did. 29 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:38.680 I'll let you talk about what it was like to 30 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:40.959 experience it life. I just watched the highlights this morning, 31 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:43.200 made sure to get no spoilers, pulled them up on YouTube. 32 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:44.920 I think it was a good forty minute package that 33 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:47.640 m'll be blessed us with, and my heart was racing 34 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:49.959 for about thirty eight of those forty minutes, just watching 35 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:52.000 the highlights with absolutely no skin in the game. 36 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:53.480 Yeah. 37 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:56.159 Blue Jays fans who obviously are waking up devastated this morning. 38 00:01:56.239 --> 00:01:58.480 Dodgers fans who must be on cloud nine. I cannot 39 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:01.439 imagine the rollercoaster of emotions. What was it like for you, Darius? 40 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:02.680 I know you stayed up and watched it all. 41 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:03.480 Yeah. 42 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:05.640 What was your your heart rate like as that game 43 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:08.599 went on, especially as the later when He's unfolded. 44 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:11.759 Yeah, it was pretty high. I was thinking while I 45 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:13.800 was watching it that I have been in this position. 46 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:17.000 I've watched the Giants in Game seven against the Royals 47 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:22.000 in twenty fourteen, and that didn't really feel like this. 48 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:25.680 This was almost more nerve wrecking. It felt like, if 49 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:28.319 people remember, I think it was Alex Gordon maybe hit 50 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:31.560 the triple in the ninth after Bumgarner had gone in 51 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:34.719 his heroic bullpen stint, and it sort of seemed like 52 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:36.759 he was cruising and then suddenly this triple came out 53 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:42.159 of nowhere. It sort of felt like that, but for 54 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:45.400 about three hours instead of you know, five minutes. It 55 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:48.639 was ridiculous. I was like, I don't actually, like, you know, 56 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:50.719 obviously I'd prefer the Blue Jays one, but like, I 57 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:52.840 don't have a personal stake in this. I'm not a 58 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:56.360 fan of his teams. And I was dying. Yeah, the 59 00:02:56.680 --> 00:02:59.800 poor fans of the actual teams must have been absolutely 60 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:02.360 hearts jumping out of their chests because there were so 61 00:03:02.479 --> 00:03:04.960 many moments as well. It wasn't like a bunch of 62 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:07.840 scoreless innings. It wasn't like the the epic Game three 63 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:11.240 were actually mostly you know, we're setting down the lineups 64 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:13.960 and the pitchen's doing it stuff. I think there was 65 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:17.159 traffic on the bases pretty much every inning, a lot 66 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:20.199 of hits, a lot of close plays, a lot of 67 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:23.719 you know, bang bang defensive stuff that you just think 68 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:25.439 for actually a second, either way, this game could have 69 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:29.680 been totally different. So yeah, but I felt emotionally drained 70 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:34.120 by the It was a fantastic watch. Couldn't really believe 71 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:36.199 that it went on as long as it did either. 72 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:39.840 And obviously we had some incredibly unlikely heroes as well, 73 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:43.840 which was pretty cool. And I think maybe the most 74 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:47.199 remarkable thing about about last night was just who ended 75 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:50.000 up saving that game for the Dodgers. 76 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:53.159 Yeah. I think we're going to get into all of that. 77 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:55.599 I mean, it's rare that a game lives up to 78 00:03:56.159 --> 00:03:59.479 the hype, especially a World Series Game seven at the 79 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:00.719 end of a US series, that it has been as 80 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:01.400 good as this one. 81 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:03.560 But yeah, I think it truly did deliver. 82 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:06.840 I think we're going to try and just focus really 83 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:08.400 on some of the things that happened in that game 84 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:10.240 in this series as a whole. There will be plenty 85 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:14.000 of time maybe for more of a reflection on you know, 86 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:16.959 where this ranks among World Series games or among World 87 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:21.160 series generally boring? Is this good for baseball chat? About 88 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:22.560 whether the Dodgers are ruining the sport. 89 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:23.040 They're not. 90 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:25.079 I'm sure we have plenty of time for that in 91 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:26.720 the off season, but I think right now it all 92 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:29.279 feels very visceral and real, and maybe we'll just reflect 93 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:31.800 on some of the stuff that happened. I know our 94 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:35.800 podding colleague, Rachel was at both Game six and Game seven, 95 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:39.480 obviously a huge Blue Jays fan who has supported the team. Yeah, 96 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:41.240 since she was a little girl. I know she went 97 00:04:41.279 --> 00:04:43.319 with her dad. I think to both games must have 98 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:46.240 been just an unbelievable experience. She might be able to 99 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:48.360 jump in here and chat with us for five minutes 100 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:50.199 about what it was like to be in the ballpark. 101 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:53.279 If not, we'll try and make sure we can pin 102 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:54.959 her down another times talk about that, because like, yeah, 103 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:58.839 I can only imagine the level of emotion and feelings 104 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:01.680 and things happening if you're actually in the ballpark. But 105 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:03.079 maybe we can go back and forth a little bit 106 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:05.920 at the start here, just talking and throwing out some 107 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:08.279 of the most insane moments from last night. We don't 108 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:10.319 necessarily have to stick to a certain order. It's almost 109 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:12.040 hard to remember what order some of these things happened. In, 110 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:15.439 but I think it's worth calling out some of the 111 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:19.480 insane stuff that happened. Maybe we start, maybe we start 112 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:24.519 at the end. Honestly, it almost gets forgotten that it 113 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:26.199 was well to me, even though it was twelve hours 114 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:28.519 ago or whatever, that Will Smith hit the game winning 115 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:32.240 home run for a guy who had basically the biggest 116 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:33.720 hit of the game, the go ahead home run that 117 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:35.480 ended up being the difference. It almost feels like that 118 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:37.879 will end up being like the fifth or sixth best 119 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:41.839 remembered moment from this game. But wow, what an unbelievable 120 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:44.680 moment for Will Smith. I guess we can combine that, 121 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.040 maybe with just with that final inning and the game 122 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:49.519 ending double play, and that in itself, like everything that 123 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:52.240 went into it, the fact that Betts was the one 124 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:54.639 to do it, having struggled all series, the fact that 125 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.040 Bets and Smith swap spots in the lineup right before 126 00:05:57.160 --> 00:05:58.879 was at Game six, and that happened to you know, 127 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:01.720 he was the guy gaming up the unbelievably clutch home 128 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:04.439 run at the end. Almost the personification really of why 129 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:06.360 this Dodgers team is so hard to take down, right 130 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:08.600 because they have quality players up and down the lineup 131 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:10.720 who can hit a home run at any time will 132 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:12.600 get onto a less likely home run that was hit 133 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:15.720 another time in this game, and who played really really 134 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:17.959 good fundamental defense and that was on display, i think, 135 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:20.879 especially throughout the final few unings of this game. But 136 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:24.800 an underratedly difficult double play to end it by Betts, 137 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:26.480 I think, going to his left having to then throw 138 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:28.560 back across his body. Kaik obviously not a fast runner, 139 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:32.439 but it was not routine. Yeah, what are your thoughts 140 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:35.120 on Smith's home run and then the Dodgers managing to 141 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:36.959 close it out when it looked like it could get 142 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:39.160 away from again in the bottom of the eleventh. 143 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:44.360 Yeah, Smith is I think, yeah hit. It might get 144 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:46.680 a little bit lost in all of it, especially because 145 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:48.759 obviously there was maybe an even bigger home run to 146 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:50.600 tie the game a couple of innings before, which we 147 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:54.240 can talk about any minute. But yeah, it was kind 148 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:57.519 of a surreal experience to watch it because that ballpark 149 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.680 was so loud and everybody was so hypes, and it 150 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:03.480 felt like even when the Dodgers had scored most of 151 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:05.319 the evening, you know, they got back up quickly, and 152 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:08.920 this was the real sort of deflating you know, you 153 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:11.480 could just hear the pin drop, suddenly the air went 154 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:14.360 out of the room. Yeah, Smith definitely got all of it. 155 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:17.319 Shane Bieber kind of looked like he was cruising that 156 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:20.439 inning and then suddenly the ball was out of the 157 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:23.759 park and the ballpark was silent. I think Rachel Thomas 158 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:26.040 it was one hundred and twelve decibels in the earlier 159 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:29.319 in the evening they flashed up something on there. So 160 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:31.519 if you're thinking to watching on TV, was it really 161 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:33.480 loud and there, Yeah it was. It was really loud, 162 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:38.759 fantastic atmosphere, So yeah, it did. It kind of felt 163 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:41.920 like the Dodgers were just going to find a way 164 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:45.759 even though the offense didn't really click ever in this series. 165 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:47.560 You know that the most they scored was six runs. 166 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:49.560 This is a team that averaged more than five runs 167 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:52.040 a game in the regular season. So the bnja's did 168 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:54.720 a fantastic job to limit them the way they did. 169 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:57.000 And there was definitely, as I said that that point 170 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:01.079 when home earlier in the game, he thought three nil 171 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:03.680 already that this could be it. You know, just really 172 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:08.079 struggled to score runs and you didn't think that they 173 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:09.879 were necessarily gonna be able to do it. That evening 174 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:12.360 and they you know, exit out in dribs and drabs 175 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:16.160 and solo homers and sacrifice flyers, and yeah, it was 176 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:20.600 it was not a Dodger's like offensive performance. But the 177 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:22.920 thing about this lineup is they've got so much quality 178 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:25.480 up and down it. And yeah, a guy like Bets 179 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:27.600 is struggling, a guy like Freheim of struggling. It's okay, 180 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:30.920 we've got tiny, We've got Will Smith. Yeah there's there's 181 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:34.519 guys everywhere who can hurt you on this team. And yeah, 182 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:38.440 an unreal moment for Smith to just hit that home runner. 183 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:42.720 Guess he'll be a Dodger's legend forever now. But then 184 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:45.799 the bottom of the inning up, he doesn't get more 185 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:48.840 tense than having the tying run on third base, as 186 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:51.399 in the bottom of the eleventh inning and games set 187 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:52.080 the World Series. 188 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:54.080 Hats off. 189 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:57.039 I'm sure we want to talk about Yamamoto because the guy, 190 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:00.240 the guy pitched the night before this. It wasn't like 191 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:02.480 he's on the short rest. You know, he's said a 192 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:04.679 day or two off. It's came out. He pitched in 193 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:07.159 those six fantastic innings that I before, after throwing a 194 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:09.519 complete game earlier in the week and he's just back 195 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:11.919 on the bound and not not for like a couple 196 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:14.559 of pitches. Is this was the third inning he was 197 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:17.120 out there, and it looked like, you know, they weren't 198 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:21.399 going to get the ball off him. Yeah, Flad coming 199 00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:23.039 up the first guy in that inning was not the 200 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:25.320 guy he wanted to see. I don't think he hit 201 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:30.360 a pretty authorestive double to set that up. But then, yeah, 202 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:33.200 that double play, I think people I saw it live, 203 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:35.039 I was like, oh my god, like, I think that 204 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:37.679 they're going to tie this game up when the ball 205 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:39.159 got hit, because I didn't think there was going to 206 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:42.519 be time. And people have made a lot about Bets 207 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:46.519 and his unreal transformation into one of the best defensive 208 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:50.480 short sobs in baseball in his mid thirties. Pretty crazy 209 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:52.960 thing to do. And yeah, I think that just typified 210 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:55.840 what he'd done because he did make it look pretty easy, 211 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:58.759 even though the amount of tension there was. That ball 212 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:01.879 was not you know, a week out in the middle, 213 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:04.559 and he just scooped it up and stepped on second 214 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:06.639 and made a pretty clean throw to first. It was 215 00:10:06.840 --> 00:10:09.759 kind of seamless. So yeah, hands off to Mooki Betts, 216 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:13.200 who's really struggled at the plate and just, yeah, a 217 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:15.960 Moto World Series MVP. What more can you say about 218 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:18.320 a performance like that? The dude don't like, Yeah, you'd 219 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:21.240 probably have to tear him off the mound if they 220 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:22.639 were going to get him out of that game because 221 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:25.679 he wanted to be the guy who was closing that out. 222 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:26.879 Yeah. 223 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:30.360 That was the best individual pitching formats across the world too, 224 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:32.799 as I can remember since Bunar, and arguably even better 225 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:35.159 given he went out in Game seven on zero days rest. 226 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:37.919 Like you say, I don't know if that's happened before. 227 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:39.759 I think probably last time it did would have been 228 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:42.919 like the nineteen twenties or something. It just isn't something 229 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:45.279 that has been done, never mind in modern baseball, but 230 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:49.559 just since starting pitchers were, you know, given days between starts. 231 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:52.840 It's absolutely unbelievable what he was able to do. And 232 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:54.840 like you say it, it almost felt like if that 233 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:56.879 game went thirteen, fourteen, fifty innings, he was just going 234 00:10:56.919 --> 00:10:59.159 to be like, I'm good, leave it to me, I've 235 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:02.799 got this. We saw him in god, what would have 236 00:11:02.840 --> 00:11:06.879 been Game three that went eighteen innings? Right, he was 237 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:09.240 warming up to come in to pitch, right, And that 238 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:11.720 was again on maybe one day's rest because he pitched 239 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:14.480 Game two, didn't he? So I mean, this guy clearly 240 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:16.879 just wants the ball in his hands in the biggest 241 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:20.000 spots and could care less about, you know, whether they 242 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:21.919 will have his best stuff, just wants to be out 243 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:24.519 there doing it. And an unbelievable tip of the cap 244 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:27.879 for his World Series performance. I was among many who 245 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:32.039 didn't necessarily think he was the picture that maybe we 246 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:35.279 all expected when he first signed that contract. And this 247 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:37.799 whole season he's been unbelievable. But this postseason has just 248 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:41.440 got to a whole new level. And yeah, they will 249 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:44.519 tell stories and write books and make films about some 250 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:47.240 of his feats in this series. And look shoheo. Tani 251 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:50.000 is special and always will be and had a massive 252 00:11:50.039 --> 00:11:52.120 role to play in this game and in this series. 253 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:55.799 But really fitting that the Amamoto got World Series MVP. I 254 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:58.600 just am out of words to describe what he was 255 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:01.000 able to do in this series. You know, finding that 256 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:03.159 groundball when you did it the most, just just summed 257 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:07.240 it up. What an unbelievable athlete. Yeah, what an amazing 258 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:11.399 performance in this series. Let's get back I guess a bit. 259 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:13.759 Sorry go on that did also remind me there was 260 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:16.840 the moment it didn't really come to pass. There wasn't 261 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:18.559 enough time to dwell on it, but there was a 262 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:20.759 moment during that inning where they cut to the ballpen 263 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:23.480 and Clayton Kersher was warming up in the ballpen. Yes, 264 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:26.840 and I thought back to our conversation about what are 265 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:29.759 we going to get Clayton Kershew blows save in the 266 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:34.720 World Series. It did career. Fortunately it was taken out 267 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:36.919 of Dave Robertson's hands, but there was there was definitely 268 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:38.159 a moment there where I thought they're going to tie 269 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:39.759 this up and they're going to have to bring Cursher 270 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:41.200 in because nobody else is left. 271 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:44.159 It did feel for a moment that we were getting 272 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:46.879 to that inevitable moment where Kershel comes in with option 273 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:50.039 A and the save in Game seven of the World Series, 274 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:51.759 in the final game of your Hall of Fame career, 275 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:55.960 be blow it final time in the playoffs to endjo 276 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:58.399 illustrious Hall of Fame career. So I'm quite glad that 277 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:01.120 didn't come to pass, but it did feel that was 278 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:03.799 really going to be on the cards for a moment there. 279 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:06.080 And I will say one of the very cool things 280 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:08.559 I think about a game seven, and this one in particular, 281 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:10.960 given the just ability of the teams on displayers, it 282 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:15.799 becomes like this crazy Avengers. You know, all stars, guys 283 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:17.720 just coming out of the bullpen, no matter what, to 284 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:20.000 pitch where you get, you know. I think glass Now 285 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:22.600 came in, Blake Snell came in for the night, obviously, 286 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:25.399 had the Ammamoto on the Blue Jay side, We had 287 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:27.879 Bassett came into the game, obviously, had Beaver come into 288 00:13:27.879 --> 00:13:31.039 the game. Like all arms, whoever we need, you have 289 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:34.120 to be ready to go, which is just yeah, unbelievable. 290 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:36.360 Yay Savage, he came in, didn't he? I mean I 291 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:38.399 love that about that, Like there is no tomorrow. You 292 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:40.440 just got to throw everyone out there. We're going to 293 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:42.639 see all of your best players, all the stars of 294 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:44.919 this series out there one more time. So that I 295 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:47.360 think is a really cool element of these, Like when 296 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:49.200 I'll go home games, it's like you just got to 297 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:50.840 you got to throw it all out there. 298 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:53.960 Yeah. I don't remember one call at this, probably because 299 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.759 we've never seen a team with talent call at this, 300 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:00.440 but just show here. Tony tier, glass Now, Blake's and 301 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:05.759 Mooto pitched in the same game and then the blue 302 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:10.120 Jay's three shares and Beaver and your savage like this is, yeah, 303 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:12.279 don't you just don't see this even in the World Series, 304 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:14.960 it like it hardly ever happens that you get quite 305 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:19.960 this volume of it. But it was remarkable to see, unbelievable. 306 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:24.759 We should probably talk about the ninth inning, and yeah, 307 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:28.080 I'll be interested to hear what what it felt like 308 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:30.240 for you watching live. When I was watching the highlights, 309 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:31.919 they were kind of making this big point in the 310 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:34.120 top of the ninth about blue Jay's up by one. 311 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:36.320 O'tarani has to bat this inning. You know, it was 312 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:38.279 kind of like, we've got eight nine to one, no 313 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:40.159 matter what, Otny will come up with a chance to 314 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:42.960 tire the game. If someone gets on bass a chance 315 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:46.879 to win it. And even during the the at bat 316 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:50.639 that ended up tying the game from Meggy Rojas, they 317 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:52.639 were talking about like, you cannot let rohats get on 318 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:54.120 base here, you cannot walk here, but you do not 319 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:55.960 want to have o'tony come up with a chance to 320 00:14:56.120 --> 00:14:58.679 give the Dodgers the lead. And I'm sure it felt 321 00:14:58.679 --> 00:14:59.799 like that a little bit watching it was like a 322 00:15:00.200 --> 00:15:01.960 just skip to the bit where Atani comes up and 323 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:03.440 its game on the line, and he has to hit 324 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:05.879 a home run to tie it, and almost people forgot 325 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:07.360 that there were two batters to come before them, and 326 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:10.559 especially Mickey Row who hadn't had a hit in a 327 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:12.799 month before this game. He did get one a bit 328 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:14.919 earlier in the game, didn't he but hadn't had a 329 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:17.919 hit in this game and is never really has never 330 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:19.799 really been a home run threat in his career. No 331 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:23.840 offense to Mickey Row, who we've all come come to love, 332 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:26.480 but certainly a sup utility at best. And it just 333 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:30.000 felt like, so that's baseball, that he would be the 334 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:32.679 one to turn on the pitch after a really good 335 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:35.799 at bat and stick it effectively, no doubt, over the 336 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:37.759 left field fence to tie it off. Jeff Hoffman, who 337 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:40.360 to that point Colorado Rockies legend, by the way, to 338 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:42.519 that point, had been lights out in the series and 339 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:46.200 in the entire postseason for the Jays. Yeah, could you 340 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:48.600 believe what your eyes were seeing? What was going through 341 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:49.000 your mind? 342 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:49.440 Is that night? 343 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:52.000 Thenning unfolded and Rojas came to the plate, and it 344 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:53.919 Twani stood watching him in the on deck circle. 345 00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:57.639 Yeah, I think I think you're right. Nobody was even 346 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:00.960 really looking at rows, they were thinking about O'tarani. I 347 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:03.480 think somebody in one of the baseball chats said, who 348 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:05.600 writes so tany scripts? It felt like this was going 349 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:10.480 to be another WBC moment. You know, Otani comes up 350 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:12.399 two out s bottom of the ninth to save the 351 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:15.639 Dodger season. And even looking at the other guys, you know, 352 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:20.519 and Rica Hernandez, you know, he's always had this postseason magic, 353 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:22.440 he thought, or maybe he's going to do it again. 354 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:26.480 And then Will Smith he was up after Tarni. Rowhaus 355 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:29.200 was the guy nobody was looking at, certainly not to 356 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:31.159 tie the game. He thought, oh yeah, maybe if they 357 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:33.440 let one of these guys get on, then then Ty's 358 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:37.679 got a better chance to drive somebody in. But nobody 359 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:40.639 was thinking he's going to take Jeff Offman deep, I 360 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:44.480 mean Rowhouse h one home run off a right handed 361 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:49.279 starting picture, right handed picture full stop. I think this 362 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:54.399 this season just unreal that it was sehim. He stepped 363 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:57.879 up of ninety four ops he had against writes this season. 364 00:16:58.679 --> 00:17:00.840 If you were making the list of like who would 365 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:02.480 you want in baseball, not just on these teams, who 366 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:04.279 would you want in baseball to come up in the 367 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:06.119 bottom of the ninth of the team down by one. 368 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:09.160 Micguil Rohas would be very very far down that list 369 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:14.119 against especially against the writing this is not a thing 370 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:17.200 that should happen. But this is what makes baseball great, right, 371 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:19.039 and this is what makes it so hard to predict. 372 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:21.920 Anybody can be a star at any point. And I 373 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:24.039 don't don't know if there's ever been a better personification 374 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:27.160 of that than Rohas being the one to tie it, 375 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:30.480 and to tie it on a home run with just yeah, 376 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:33.400 really really shocking, not a wall scraper, as you say, 377 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:38.000 just yeah, definitely got all of it. And I could 378 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:40.559 not believe it. You know, I was just waiting for 379 00:17:40.599 --> 00:17:44.240 the Iffman could get him out. I did not think 380 00:17:44.279 --> 00:17:45.759 this was going to be the moment. 381 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:49.480 Yeah, it took me back. I actually it took me 382 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:52.319 back a bit to the would I Davis home run 383 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:56.799 off Chapman for the Guardians back in that series against 384 00:17:56.799 --> 00:17:58.640 the Cubs in twenty sixteen, but in terms of like 385 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:01.759 unexpected source of power. But I almost think like in 386 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:04.200 that moment, we all knew that, like Davis was a 387 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:06.119 tying run and this was you know, he just had 388 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:06.759 to get hold of one. 389 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:07.359 It would tire the game. 390 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:09.799 It almost felt like we forgot here that Rojas was 391 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:11.720 able to swing the bat and could do something with it. 392 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:17.680 Just yeah, folklore instant for Dodgers fans obviously, who I'm 393 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:20.119 sure couldn't believe their rise. Broadcast, couldn't believe their Ryes Stadium, 394 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:22.559 couldn't believe their rise. It felt like an absolute pin 395 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.119 could drop. But yeah, what a moment for Rojas. And yeah, 396 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:30.319 like you say, what an insane display of what makes 397 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:33.480 baseball so great in that moment. And then the bottom 398 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:35.799 of the inning, I'm gonna mess up the sequencing of 399 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:38.240 exactly what happened in what order here. I think Vladdy 400 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:42.079 doubled to lead off right and got himself in scoring 401 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:44.920