World Series Game 7

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by rats60

All the Blue Jays needed was Isiah Kiner-Falefa to run hard through the base instead of slide into home and the Blue Jays win in 9.

Did you see how small his lead was off third base was when the ball was hit? A few feet more and he easily scores.

[samosa4u]

Series was mentally exhausting. I'm glad it's over.
Jays surprised everybody this year. Who thought they were going to set all these postseason records and play in the World Series ??
And this team has depth. Even if their best players are down, then no problem! They can play well without Bichette and Springer !!
Vladdy is one hell of a leader and made some insane plays this postseason.
Jays will be back.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by calvindog

Did you see how small his lead was off third base was when the ball was hit? A few feet more and he easily scores.

This. Muncy was a good 20 feet off the bag, the runner about five. Where was the coach, what in the world was he doing? That's the tying run, get him as close as you can in case of a wild pitch, passed ball, or slow grounder to the infield!

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

This. Muncy was a good 20 feet off the bag, the runner about five. Where was the coach, what in the world was he doing? That's the tying run, get him as close as you can in case of a wild pitch, passed ball, or slow grounder to the infield!

Actually it was the World Series winning run...

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by jayshum

Actually it was the World Series winning run...

Oof!

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

This. Muncy was a good 20 feet off the bag, the runner about five. Where was the coach, what in the world was he doing? That's the tying run, get him as close as you can in case of a wild pitch, passed ball, or slow grounder to the infield!

IMO it was pretty clearly an overcorrection in response to the way game 6 ended.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by BobbyStrawberry

IMO it was pretty clearly an overcorrection in response to the way game 6 ended.

That would make you play it differently from how you would in any other game? I can't see that.

[Huck]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

This. Muncy was a good 20 feet off the bag, the runner about five. Where was the coach, what in the world was he doing? That's the tying run, get him as close as you can in case of a wild pitch, passed ball, or slow grounder to the infield!

"Kiner-Falefa, to his credit, spoke about the play after the game and explained exactly what went wrong. "They told us to stay close to the base," Kiner-Falefa said, per Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet. "They don't want us to get doubled off in that situation with a hard line drive. Varsho hits the ball really, really hard. (Max Muncy's) right there. I'm waiting for a backpick from (catcher) Will Smith in that situation. "It was obviously a tough play. They got it done. The lead is small. In that situation, you can't get doubled off. I got the best secondary lead I could, and it didn't work out."

"Upon rewatching, however, it looked as though it took Kiner-Falefa a few steps to get into high gear, and he even peeked over his left shoulder a bit to gauge where the grounder was hit in relation to Rojas."

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Huck

"Kiner-Falefa, to his credit, spoke about the play after the game and explained exactly what went wrong. "They told us to stay close to the base," Kiner-Falefa said, per Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet. "They don't want us to get doubled off in that situation with a hard line drive. Varsho hits the ball really, really hard. (Max Muncy's) right there. I'm waiting for a backpick from (catcher) Will Smith in that situation. "It was obviously a tough play. They got it done. The lead is small. In that situation, you can't get doubled off. I got the best secondary lead I could, and it didn't work out."

"Upon rewatching, however, it looked as though it took Kiner-Falefa a few steps to get into high gear, and he even peeked over his left shoulder a bit to gauge where the grounder was hit in relation to Rojas."

Doesn't explain why he slowed himself down by sliding into home plate. Overrunning home plate isn't a problem.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

Doesn't explain why he slowed himself down by sliding into home plate. Overrunning home plate isn't a problem.

Force of habit. Pretty rountine play under most circumstances, but of course this one magnified every little move into a gamechanger, which they were. All the attention would have been on Rojas, who stumbled and double-clutched the throw, if the runner had been safe.

[campyfan39]

I am so happy for Kershaw. Sometimes the good guys end up winning in the end.

I stopped watching baseball in August of 1994 because of the strike. I might occasionally watch the World Series, but that was it at best. I only got back into it in 2013 after reading Clayton's book "Arise." Such a good dude, and he and his wife opened an orphanage in a foreign country. Faith and family, etc.

My wife and I were blessed to get to go on vacation near Tampa this August, and they just happened to be in town! I got to see Kershaw pitch six scoreless and get a win! It was at Steinbrenner Stadium, so we were up close. It was only my third MLB game live ever! What a wonderful blessing that was.

Needless to say, we woke up the neighborhood when Mookie made that double play!

[Fred]

I watched the entire 7 game series and was hoping to see the Dodgers choke because they had the second highest payroll, just $2M behind the Mets, but then when you consider all the deferrals in payment that would actually place the Dodgers well ahead of everyone. Dave Roberts a great manager? Hell, you could put an experienced college level coach in and he'd probably have had a better record. I loved it when Roberts was playing the odds and put a lefty in vs Barger (no HRs vs lefty's in 117 at bats prior to the "SLAM").

There were also disgusting moments like in game 7 when Springer was jogging to second thinking Vlad walked and then was thrown out for a stike'm out, throw'em out double play which killed the first inning for the Jays in game 7.

At what point do these "big leaguers" get reprimanded for not hustling. Yes, 99% of the time not hustling will not lead to outs or potential scoring losses, but when it does happen, it makes you wonder why the players aren't benched. Baseball is a game of "Charlie Hustle". You play hard and never stop. Looks like today's players just don't get that.

I was happy that Kershaw's last game was him holding the Jays in the ninth inning of that marathon win for the Dodgers. All you could do was hope that Roberts wouldn't put Clayton in a position to have to pitch in a high leverage situation and blow it with that 90mph fast ball. So sad to see the skills diminished on a player like Kershaw. I mean he was one of the games best when he was in his prime.

You have to give a lot of props to Yamamoto. Wow, throws near a hundred pitches in game 6 then comes back out the next night for the win in game 7. That was a pretty interesting game 7 when you consider (4) starters pitched in that game.

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