2024 WS: Yankees vs. Dodgers

DeadlySplitter

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To be clear, if Verdugo had jumped back into play after taking the tumble and THEN thrown the ball back to the infield, the runners would not have been awarded
Looking this up, the ball was dead as soon as he fell into the stands and it's one base awarded, because he caught it in live ball territory. That's a bit of a curious rule but it is such a rare play.
 

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Weaver was only at 19 pitches, I know he got tired last series but the other options were Jake Cousins, Tim Hill and a half-dead Nestor Cortes, so maybe that was the time to extend Weaver.
 

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i have an odd one for you!

Per the below Daily news article (local paper here in LA) Gibsons walkoff HR was hit at 8:37 PM.
time stopped 25 years ago, where were you?

At 8:37 p.m. on Oct. 15, 1988, Kirk Gibson reached out across the plate from the left-handed batters box at Dodger Stadium.

He flipped his bat awkwardly with as much arm strength as he could generate since his legs were of little use at that point.

The result was a fly ball that kept going and going and going, and the back-door slider from future Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley landed in the right-field pavilion.

On the replays, maybe you see the red tail lights from people hitting the breaks on their cars as they’re leaving the stadium parking lot, convinced the game was over.

Anyone else who stayed in the park for that moment wasn’t going anywhere.
https://www.dailynews.com/sports/20131014/kirk-gibsons-home-run-moment-still-as-powerful-25-years-later/

Freemans walk off Grand Slam in Game 1 this season. Was ALSO hit at 8:37 PM.


Pretty sure that has never happened before in baseball
 

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And of course there's always someone in the media ready to ask the most important and relevant questions about future use of international signing bonus money minutes before Game 1 of the WS. Friedman not quite feeling it:

 

cheekydave

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Saturday Morning.

Wake up...

Turn on Computer..

Watch Freedie Freeman Walk off Grand Slam..

Watch it another 1000 times..

Still watching it!

What a great day!!!!!!
 

jon abbey

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This is what I don't understand. Isn't Hill a lefty? Why Cortes and not Hill? Hurt?
No, Hill is fine but was a midseason waivers pickup, whereas the last time Nestor was in the postseason, he started and won a deciding ALDS game 5 against CLE on 3 days rest. He was a warrior in that series, I'm sure that's what tipped Boone (rightly or wrongly, Hill could have easily blown it too against the top of that lineup),
 

Ed Hillel

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So, having taken the time to carefully review the footage and cogitate, I think we can safely say that Freeman’s Grand Slam last night was the sole responsibility of one person - Alex Verdugo.

Had he not drunkenly fallen into the stands in order to create a viral social media Derek Jeter moment, Mookie Betts probably would have popped up to end the game.

That’s my Alex Verdugo.