MLB Playoffs - World Series Thread

Just WOW!!!

That was one of the most exciting World Series ballgames I've ever seen!

When Kenley got those two corner(ish) pitches on both sides of the plates called strikes by the ump, I figured that Phillips had absolutely no chance and that Kenley would work the corners and even if he was off the corners, Phillips would have it in his head that he had to swing - so I figured he was a strikeout waiting to happen.

It was shocking that Kenley threw it over the plate and Phillips got that big line drive hit, Taylor booted the ball and then the short relay to home was missed by Smith who's doing a swipe tap of the runner who's not even there because he fell down like he was Luis Aparicio, but Arozarena got away with it - because EVERYTHING is going that guy's way.

Just incredible. I've gotta say - I thought LA would take the Series in 5 games. Not happening now, and there's pressure on them to win Game 5 because the matchup in Game 6 for the Dodgers is kind of dicey. The Rays have Blake Snell going and the Dodgers have either Dustin May or Tony Gonsolin going and both have been struggling. I do think this is the Series where Kershaw will have his 2018 David Price moment, but we'll see.

Meanwhile, Anderson, Fairbanks, and Castillo look like they're overworked and tired, so who knows how this goes? Not that the Dodgers' pen has been any great shakes. I think if it goes 7 Buehler will shut down the Rays, but I have to say this: Tampa has a ton of guts.

I mean, they were even with the Yankees until Brosseau hit his HR in the 8th inning of Game 5 to decide the ALDS.

They blew a 3-0 game lead and lived to tell about it. They recovered in Game 7 instead of being shattered by blowing that huge lead. From what I hear David Ortiz say, he told a story about a reporter going into both the Yankees and Sox locker rooms before Game 7 and he said the Sox locker room was a fiesta and the Yankees locker room was like a funeral. The point being that the Rays did not behave like the Yankees. They won anyways.

Now in a Series where it seems obvious to me that LA is a lot better than TB, here they are finding ways to win the games they absolutely need to win. I thought the Rays offense was HR or nothing - or more specifically Arozarena or nothing, but Lowe has hit some big homers, Kiermaier had a good game, Choi gets those important walks, and we'll never forget what Brett Phillips did.

This is why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

Yes too all, although I can think of another epic "ridiculous" play to end a WS game that I wanted to forget - it involves am injured veteran 1b missing a slow roller through his legs after 3 straight hits and a wild pitch that ticked off the catcher's glove, all happening after the scoreboard operator accidentally "rewarded" the World Series championship to a team about to break a 68 year drought, and no that team didn't win - they had to wait another 18 years, but boy was it worth it!

Ball also bounced off the home plate ump's leg.

Sooooo, Kershaw May take the day off ?

I think we can all agree that Mookie should have been in position to get Taylor's kick into right field and throw home. Jeter would have been there.

LOL, 2021 ROY. Houck or Arozarena.

Do catchers getting throws from RF usually not have enough sense as to where the runner is? Legit question because I’ve heard some go into detail about what they knew the runner was going to do, like a fade slide, or something more direct. I assumed the sswipe tags were when they knew it was a last resort.

Then you have Smith here not even sure the runner was 30 feet away. Did he look at him rounding third then focus on the throw and sense from timing that he should be there?

I'd forgotten that Chris.  I wouldn't thank you for reminding me except that it all turned out well!  :-)  We'll see if the Dodger fans remember this in a few years.

Edit: typo.

Horrible strike three call on wendle took the bat out of his hands.

Add. A better throw by betts Diaz is out by ten feet

Margot is a spark plug

and then he made a big yikes, though a very close play trying to steal home