November 7, 2025 • 33 mins
Dodger Blue Dream came true... again! Richard Parks III breaks down Game 7, the winner-take-all game of the 2025 World Series. Many are calling this Game 7 the best baseball game of all time, and this World Series the best World Series of all time. With the Dodgers beating the Blue Jays with a score of 5-4, the Boys in Blue secured their second consecutive World Series title, and third in six years.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, Dodger Blue Dreamers. A short preface, hard to believe.
It's already been most of a week since the Dodgers
did it, winning their second consecutive World Series title in
a fall classic that is being talked about as maybe
the best World Series ever and a deciding Game seven
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that I think is the best baseball game I have
ever seen. It had it all, and thank goodness, a
happy ending Dodger blue dream came true again. It's turning
into a recurring dream, and that is beyond any fantasy
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I ever would have entertained before I started making this show.
Since when the Los Angeles Dodgers have won the World
Series in each of their two opportunities, the first back
to back winners in twenty five years. So today on
the show, we're gonna look back on Game seven, the
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winner take all game, and relive some of the most
exciting moments of baseball ever played.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And I'm gonna start edge of the seat the entire
time right here.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Breathe parks, top of the ninth inning in Toronto, Game seven,
four to three Blue Jays, and we got Miggy row
do up.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
This is it, This is it.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Game seven, top of the ninth inning, the Dodgers are
on the ropes. It's four to three Blue Jays, winner
take all game. If the Dodgers don't score here in
this inning, it's all over. Rarely cat back on it worked.
Last inning goes one run with one out, meaning two
more outs, and the game and series and season is over.
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Dodgers veteran backup shortstop and known clubhouse leader, Miguel Rojas
miggi Row steps into the box.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Come on, let's make something happen.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
He taps the plate with his bat, waves it once
toward Toronto reliever Jeff Hoffman, maggi Row and bounces it
off his back shoulder a few times.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Wow, meggi Row at the plate, sold out.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Crowd on its feet, the underdog. I love meggi Row.
He is my kind of ballplayer. He plays shortstop with
a beletic grace that is just a joy to watch,
air handing little numbers that would otherwise go for infield hits,
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stabbing hard hit grounders as they scream passed at triple
digit speeds, and galloping like a gazelle onto the outfield
grass to make plays other guys just don't make. Plus,
he's known for his team leadership, he makes it a
point to mentor the younger guys, often taking them out
to buy them new Jordan sneakers. He's played an integral
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role in Mooki's switch to shortstop, and when the team's bonding,
miggi Row is always the guy right in the middle
of it. He's the MC with the microphone on the
team bus. He's known as the glue. It keeps this
special group of guys bonded together. He said that he
wants to manage one day, and you can see how
he'd be a great manager. And then there's his flare,
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that blue Onyx von Cleef necklace that he wears, plus
the matching stud earrings. There's not too many guys who
can pull that off. With the iblack put on miggi Row,
it works. But miggi Row is a career below average hitter.
His ops plus is point eight two. That means he's
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almost twenty percent less productive offensively than the league average
player over his career. And miggi Row particularly has true
facing righty's and Toronto has Jeff Hoffman, a very tough,
hard throwing righty on the mound to close out this
game and this series for the Blue Jays. On top
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of all that, Miggie is thirty six aseball old, and
he hadn't played much through this October. This was just
his second start since October first, and in the only
other game he started, the previous night's Game six, he'd
gone oh for three and he hadn't recorded a hit
in a month. So, honestly, I was kind of surprised
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that Dodgers manager Dave Roberts let Miggi row hit here
with just two precious outs remaining before a World Series defeat. Dave,
what was the mood in the dugout like when mcel
was coming up there in the ninth.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Obviously it doesn't look great, you know, in that moment.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
In a presser following the game, the La Times, Jack
Harris asked Dave Roberts about his decision to use Mggi here.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
But you know, for us him to take the bat,
you know, it's nice when you can look down the
roster and have twenty six guys if you believe in
and know that at some point in time their number
is gonna be called, and and that's kind of what happened.
And so you know, Miggy row I talk about the
game honors you, and you know right there the game
honitor them.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Wow, Maggie row at the play rule, so gonna do
that slider?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
With that slider on the dirt, Miggy's first swing on
a pitch down and a way and way out of
the zone did not look good.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Every quarner of the roster is contributed during this run.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Going into this ninth inning, the Blue Jays had a
ninety one point seven win probability.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Take Good or they even bodied to forget him.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
During this at bat, Joe Davis and John Smoltz started
doing their wrap up talk block and they did the
thing where they show close ups of all the Blue
Jays players that had a big game, which gives you
an idea of how much faith people had that this
game could turn around at this point.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Went the distance in the Championship Series and have done
the same in the World Series.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
No, I Hay.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
When they start doing the wrap up spiels, it's like,
it's not over.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
We could still win this game. We could.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
So Toni waits on deck, Is Hoffman throws two runner.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We get a base runner for show.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Hey, the camera's cut to show Hey, who's standing on deck?
The guy we've all been thinking about, praying for a
heroic moment from our superstar.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Hoffins two one in the air, foul round.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
That is going to reach the seats.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Meggie can't catch up to Hoffman's fastball.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Come on, Meggie, come on, Meggi Row.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Two two pitch ros rise. It often stays alive.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Two and two, ballot sounding just this, that's ball three,
William three and two and with the count now full,
everybody knows that a strike is coming. Jeff Hoffman doesn't
want to face show Hey with a runner on and
a chance to take the lead. He's going to give
him something to hit because he does not want to
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walk him and then face show Hey.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So he's gonna give him something in the zone. Come on, Maggie,
come on, biggie, bro. You got this, y'all.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Real?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Do not building deep.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The unlikely hero? Meggie Row, Yeah, I was never I
was never trying to beat that.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
How run?
Speaker 7 (07:41):
I think this is a first one wrong against right hand.
The picture during the whole year, and he came to
the biggest bottle of my life and my career in
front of these fans, saying in front of the and
my teammates kind of like, Hey, I can read this
guy right now, the emotions that I fail.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
This unlikely source says changed Game seven.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
It's tied at four.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Today on the show, we're talking all about Game seven,
but we're digging in deep on that exhilarating ending the
ninth through eleventh innings that followed this historic home run,
perhaps the most important home run in Dodgers' World Series history,
because it saved us from defeat and opened the doorway
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to some of the most exciting baseball I have ever seen.
And then it culminated in a Dodgers win and a
second consecutive World Series title, something that had not been
done in twenty five years, and the establishment of a
Dodgers dynasty three World Series wins in six years, and
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the second in two years that I've spent making this show,
Dodger Blue Dream. I'm Richard Parks, the third Thanks for
tuning in today's episode Game seven.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
What do you think should we keep doing this every year?
Dream On.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
They say that baseball is a game of inches. What's
fair and what's foul, what's a strike and what's a ball,
what's safe and what's out? These things are a matter
of minuscule margins, a game of inches, or, as this
is the World Series and we are in Canada, a
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game of millimeters, if you will, and you should in
the case of the bottom of the ninth inning of
this game seven, because with a tie game thanks to
Miggy Rose improb bull home run, there would be a
play that made all the difference for the result of
this game. And it looked a lot closer than mere inches.
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By the way, if you're wondering, there are about twenty
five millimeters in an inch. For my American listeners.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
All right, beautiful, beautiful thing. It's bottom of the ninth.
If they score, they win.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
In the bottom of the ninth inning Thai game, Blake
Snell on the mound for the Dodgers, and we were
gonna need him to be nearly perfect because as the
home team, all the Blue Jays had to do to
win the World Series was push a single run across.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And here they come.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Rolling.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
He just missed.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Vladimir Guerrero Junior just misses hitting a walk off home
run for the first out. But then Bob Sheet singles.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Line drive left field. That's down, and.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Addison Barger works a walk after a nine pitch battle
with Snell.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Payoff shut no way running a store.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Position control is usually the first thing to go when
a pitcher's tired and Snell was slipping.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Yoshi Nobu Yamamoto, twenty four hours after starting, had a
winning game.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Six wow.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Ready to do some heroic stuff coming on to face
kirk and a tie game at the bottom of the night.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Dave Roberts calls for right handed pitcher Yoshi Nobu Yamamoto,
who had already started and won two games in this
World Series, including Game six the day before. On zero
day's rest. Yamamoto comes out of the bullpen with two
on and one out in the bottom of the ninth
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inning and a tie game.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Oh wow, oh wow, Ready to do.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Some bullet stuff to face Toronto catcher Alejandro.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Kirker, the catcher that nobody wanted.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yama had thrown almost one hundred high pressure pitches the
day before. He'd thrown a complete game in Game two,
his second consecutive complete game after a three hitter he
threw during the CS.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
A chance to be a World Series hero. Takes a stride.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
First pitch splitter in there. It doesn't look like the
fatigue is affecting Yama at all, but then on just
the second pitch he throws, sinker, slips on it, and
it hits Kirk on the forearm. Faces loaded, Yama closes
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his eyes and throws his head back like h one
out Dalton Varshow coming to the pot.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Anyone walked it off with a sacrifice fly.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
At nineteen twelve, the Red Sox did it against Christy
Mathewson the hotel.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Favor, with the bases loaded and one out in the
bottom of the ninth inning and a tie ball game.
There are so many ways for the home team to win.
You don't need to get a hit to win it.
Any ball hit in the air hard enough could win it,
as long as the runner at third tags up and
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makes it home before the throw. A ground ball could
win it if the force out isn't made at home,
and if it's not a double play. Obviously a walk
or a hit by pitch could win it. But mostly
we're all thinking about the sacrifice fly. If Dalton Varshow
can get the ball in the air to the outfield,
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especially to the middle to right side of the outfield,
he could give his teammate on third base enough time
to tag up and make it home, and only a
high velocity, very accurate throw from the outfield with a
good tag could stop that from happening. Two players on
the baseball field were subbed in in this inning, specifically
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for a scenario like this one from each team. For
the Blue Jays, Isaiah Kiner Falaffa Ikf is now the
runner at third base. Blue Jays manager John Schneider subbed
him in after Bashett singled. Bashett is coming off of
an injury, and he's not running well. He's got a
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bum knee, and this was a big decision. Bashett had
hit the three run home run that had given the
Blue Jays the lead in the first place. It's still
a tie ball game, and theoretically it could go on forever,
but Schneider opted for a fresh base runner over keeping
Bashett's bat in the lineup. They're trying to win it here, obviously,
in the bottom of the ninth. Ikf's is to take
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every opportunity to make it home with smart base running.
And for the Dodgers, Dave Roberts has brought in Andy
Payees to play center field. Pajes had been in the
lineup all postseason long. He's a very talented young ballplayer.
He plays great defense and the motivating factor for this switch.
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He has a terrific arm, and he had a really
good year at the plate too. He hit twenty seven
home runs, But when the calendar turned to October, Pie
started slumping. In fifty one at bats, he'd gotten only
four hits for a point zero seven to eight batting average.
As the nine hole hitter in front of Shohei Otani.
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That's just not acceptable. Ironically, Pajes's offensive struggles are actually
the reason that Miguel Rojas was in the lineup for
this World Series. Dave Roberts had put Miggy Rowe at
second and moved Tommy Edmund into play center field. But
Tommy Edmund doesn't have a great arm and Andy Pajes does,
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and so after the hit by pitch that loaded the bases,
Dave Roberts subbed in Andy Pajes. I kf is at
third trying to get home. Andy Pajes is in center
field trying to stop him, and Miggy Rowe, having just
hit the home run to tie the game in the
top of the inning, is playing second. Bottom of the ninth,
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one out.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Don't show him.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Up, No where to put him free alto photo gonna
from out for the winning role.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Everybody at the Rogers Center is standing and after a
foul ball and a cold strike, it's one and two.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
One two pitch bar show.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Varshow chops a one to two splitter to the right
side of the infield, right towards Miguel Rojas, who's playing
on the edge of the infield grass in to reduce
the time it would take to make this play. At
the plate, Miggie ranges slightly to his right, drops down
briefly to his right knee, and stabs the ball off
the second bounce backhanded. With Ikf running flat out towards
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home plate, Miggie wobbles his momentum carrying him backwards, but
then he rights himself, plants his feet, double clutches, and
throws home to Will Smith, who stretches out his left
arm like a first baseman to glove the ball for
a force out just ahead of Ikf's foot first slide.
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Game of inches or millimeters. Let's roll the tape a second.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Let's the girl Rosas, who ties it on the top
of the kne saves it on.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
The bottom of the nine. Wow, you got the runner
at home. I mean he was stumbling.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
They're going to take a look, just to take a look.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
But he had lost his balance right here and gathered
to make the draw very close. Look at this, I
mean almost loses every bit of those balance to make
this drow.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
But oh, he's on the plate.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
But then looking at the replay, there's a problem.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
Question is going to be that will Smith have his
spike on the plate or not in time on the field,
is that he's out.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
As he stretches out to catch the ball, Will Smith
lifts his right cleat off of home plate just at
the moment Ikf is sliding in before putting it back
down again. Blue Jays manager John Schneider challenges the out
call at home. If the call is reversed, the Blue
Jays win the World Series.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Man, this would be an epic reversal. It's off, it's down.
I think it's back down.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Before his foot it's the plate where it's so close.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Then, instead of a World Series victory for the Blue Jays,
it was the second out of the bottom of the
ninth inning, still a tie game, and a bird's eye
view shows that Ikf had a very small lead off
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a third base at the time of contact. With Mickey
Rose stumbling backwards and the kind of double clutch and
Will Smith lifting his cleat off of the plate, it
is highly plausible, if not certain, that Ikf would have
been safe in the Blue Jays would have won the
World Series had Ikf taken a normal length lead off
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of third base. The night before Game six of the
World Series ended on a double play where there was
a fly ball to Keik Hernandez in the outfield and
then he threw to Miggy Row at second and doubled
off Addison Barger, and apparently the Blue Jays coaching staff
was trying to avoid something similar here. They told us
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to stay close to the base. Ikf told sportsnets Ben
Nicholson Smith after the game. They don't want us to
get doubled off in that situation with a hard line drive.
Varshow hits the ball really really hard. Munsey's right there.
I'm waiting for a backpick from Will Smith in that situation,
meaning throw to third to pick him off. So Ikf
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is giving two reasons for the short lead. One that
a line drive right at Munsei would give him enough
time to both catch the ball and beat Ikf back
to third to double him off and end the inning,
and two that Will Smith would backpick him, which many
baseball media people have pointed out is a play that
has basically never happened. Ikf is said that he wanted
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to avoid a double play, which I guess he succeeded
in doing. The inning continued with two outs, which led
to another play that nobody will ever forget. We'll get
into that and the rest of the thrilling, entertaining baseball
that ensued during Game seven. After a short break, still
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in the bottom of the ninth inning, with the bases
still loaded, Ernie Clement comes to the plate with yet
another chance for the Blue Jays to score a run
and win this World Series.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Ernie Clement has talked it more hits in this postseason
than any hitter in any postseason.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I am a perennial baseball Pollyanna. I never give up faith,
but I will admit that in this moment, I thought
for sure the Dodgers were gonna lose the World Series.
The way the ball came off the bat, solid contact,
shooting straight up to left center field, it just looked
like trouble.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Hernandez on the run up.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
The broadcast shows a wide shot of the outfield, and
you see Keik Hernandez, who's playing left field, racing to
the warning track, looking back over his right shoulder. As
the ball flies through the air towards the outfield, seats operas.
But then as the camera zooms in, Andy Pajes enters
the frame. He was playing super shallow in center field,
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but it looks like he's got a bead on the
ball as well, coming from the opposite direction. The two
outfielders triangulating towards the baseball. I wonder as either of
them have it clocked. It just doesn't look good, and
I still can't tell if the ball is going to
stay in the ballpark. If it goes out, the blue
Jays win. If it drops, the blue Jays win. And
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the reaction in the room I was watching in tells
the tail PA has over time.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
As they reach the warning.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Track, the two outfielders are vectoring towards each other, running
at top speed on a collision course with either the ball,
the wall, or themselves, each of them traveling at if
we use their top sprint speeds, almost thirty feet per second.
These are two beefyed dudes.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Mind you.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Andy Pajes is listed at six' one two hundred and
twelve Pounds kik five ten one ninety.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Five that's a lot of.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Meat by the time their feet hit the dirt of
the warning, track they're about six feet, apart both of
their necks crane, back staring straight, up eyes fixed on
the ball. Overhead it doesn't look like either of them
is calling the other, off but the crowd's, deafening so
there's no way that they could hear one another.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Anyway and With kik trying to make.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
A basket catch glove out in front of him Like Willie,
mays they both start to jump and their front legs
collide and Pa haes basically body.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Slams kik in mid.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Air he dunks on, him his left thigh kind of
Clotheslining keik's, back and in, Midair kik kind of goes
into a backflip with his legs rotating up out in
front of, him and then Pa, hees now sailing up
above his, teammate squeezes the ball in his mitt and
slams into the wall As kik rolls in the dirt.
Below holy.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Like if that was football was passing.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Appearance, right thank, you thank, you thank.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
You, okay so bases load at nine, thing ball, drops
we lose.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Right KEY k talked about his experience of the catch
On Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
KIM i get a bad, JUMP i.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
BROKE i have to step in and.
Speaker 9 (25:03):
Then i'm running And i'm thinking about my entire life
As i'm following this, ball AND i felt Like i've
ran four on a mere, dash and like AS i
finally am about to catch the, Ball i'm, like the
only THING i got to worry about is the, wall,
Right and if you look at the, Video i'm slowing
down Because i've got it and out of. NOWHERE i
felt like AN nba player because my teammate posterized me
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AND i go down and in my head everything is,
quiet which should have told me that he caught. It
But i'm like my brain has protecting me from. Heartbreak
we just lost This World series.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Because my teammate dunked on.
Speaker 9 (25:39):
Me And i'm just laying on the ground sad because
we had just lost The World series AND i feel
it like.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
A tap in the. Back he's, like are you?
Speaker 9 (25:47):
Okay AND i was, like f, me being, okay did
you catch?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
It he, goes, YEAH i caught.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
IT i was, like, oh, yeah let's.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
GO i just got.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
It you would have caught it.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Out ninth inning.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
Over.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Wow so basses loaded and The jays came so so
close to winning it more than once in the bottom
of the, ninth but no. Dice onto the top of the,
Tenth freddy flies, out but Then mooki draws a, walk
And munsey singles to center field first and. Second Then
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tao works a. Walk Good, anya and the basses are.
Loaded we've got a chance to blow this thing, open
which would be great because the guy we have on
the mound threw one hundred pitches yesterday and through a
complete game a couple days before. That but with the bases,
loaded All Andy pajes could do is ground out to
shortstop and with The toronto infield in in a play
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that mirrored what happened in the bottom of the ninth
inning With Ikf mooki was forced out at, home except
Unlike Ikf mooki was out by a. Mile after, That
kiki had a swinging bunt to the right side and
that was the third.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Out Torontos ona the basis on a Jam it's. Day
it's tied at four the flottom of the tenth.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Did gage seven bottom of the. Tenth The jays had
the nine hole hitter due, up and then it was
the top of the, order post season hero and. Revile
the Former houston Astro George springer was due, next But
yama was nails three, up three down the eleventh.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Inning this is a night we're going to talk about
for a long, time no matter how it, finishes no
matter who the last two.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Is before we'd had eighteen innings In game, three and
it was starting to feel like this one could go
on forever. Too for the top of the, eleventh we
Had Meggie, rowe the game's home run hitting, hero followed
By Shoe, hey the best baseball player On, earth, who
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in his first two seasons as A dodger has hit
over one hundred home runs and could easily change this
into a five to four game with a single, swing
followed By Will, Smith america's. Catcher But toronto had brought
On Cy Young award Winner Shane, bieber who had outpitched
Show hay In game, four to help hold the, lead
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and with just three, Pitches bieber had induced groundouts from
Both meggie row and Show. Hey it was up To
smitty Will. Smith before This game, seven in the history
of The World, series there had only ever been one
game tying or go ahead home run hit in the
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ninth inning or later of a winner take all. Game
that Was Bill mazeroski in nineteen. Sixty Miggi roe's home
run in the top of the ninth was the second
such home. Run and then here in the eleventh Will
smith Joined zarowski And Miggy rowe on this.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
List, smith it's a high fly ball to deep left.
Field it's got a. Chance there's God Jesh. Smith In game.
Speaker 10 (29:12):
Seven, yeah the eve Of game, seven The dodgers laid.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
For the first time.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
They Will smith's home run sails over the left field,
wall takes a single, bounce and goes into the, stand
landing in the exact same spot As Miguel rojas's homer.
Did two innings, BEFORE i saw this video posted by
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A dodger fan who it seemed looked like he was
in a party of two in a stadium full Of
Toronto Blue jay. Fans this is what it sounded like
When smitty's home run landed in the. Stands, wow.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Why oh?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
YEAH i.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Whoa the silence is crushingly.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Loud.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
But then a down line turns the exist faces, tired
hoarded score position.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Plash in the bottom of the, Eleventh Vladimir Guerrero junior.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Hit a leadoff.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
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with one, Out toronto has the tying run on third.
Base they gave up the out to advance the runner
because once again everybody's thinking about the sacrifice fly that
could tie the. Game they're playing to, tie not necessarily to,
win but they want to extend the game and they're executing,
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good solid baseball fundamentals By Toronto Blue, jays team many
say is better than The. Dodgers but after a four
pitch walk To Addison, barger it was now first and
third with one out And Alejandro kirk coming to the.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Plate World series could end on one swing in either.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Direction here's THE o two pitch bounces.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Come out The dodgers stump.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
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a rally At Dodger, stadium in a parade through the
streets Of La already the players are talking about a three.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Peak i'm ready to get another.
Speaker 9 (32:49):
Ring.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Another ring three in three.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Years dream On.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
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Hello, Dodger Blue Dreamers. A short preface, hard to believe.
It's already been most of a week since the Dodgers
did it, winning their second consecutive World Series title in
a fall classic that is being talked about as maybe
the best World Series ever and a deciding Game seven
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that I think is the best baseball game I have
ever seen. It had it all, and thank goodness, a
happy ending Dodger blue dream came true again. It's turning
into a recurring dream, and that is beyond any fantasy
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I ever would have entertained before I started making this show.
Since when the Los Angeles Dodgers have won the World
Series in each of their two opportunities, the first back
to back winners in twenty five years. So today on
the show, we're gonna look back on Game seven, the
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winner take all game, and relive some of the most
exciting moments of baseball ever played.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And I'm gonna start edge of the seat the entire
time right here.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Breathe parks, top of the ninth inning in Toronto, Game seven,
four to three Blue Jays, and we got Miggy row
do up.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
This is it, This is it.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Game seven, top of the ninth inning, the Dodgers are
on the ropes. It's four to three Blue Jays, winner
take all game. If the Dodgers don't score here in
this inning, it's all over. Rarely cat back on it worked.
Last inning goes one run with one out, meaning two
more outs, and the game and series and season is over.
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Dodgers veteran backup shortstop and known clubhouse leader, Miguel Rojas
miggi Row steps into the box.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Come on, let's make something happen.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
He taps the plate with his bat, waves it once
toward Toronto reliever Jeff Hoffman, maggi Row and bounces it
off his back shoulder a few times.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Wow, meggi Row at the plate, sold out.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Crowd on its feet, the underdog. I love meggi Row.
He is my kind of ballplayer. He plays shortstop with
a beletic grace that is just a joy to watch,
air handing little numbers that would otherwise go for infield hits,
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stabbing hard hit grounders as they scream passed at triple
digit speeds, and galloping like a gazelle onto the outfield
grass to make plays other guys just don't make. Plus,
he's known for his team leadership, he makes it a
point to mentor the younger guys, often taking them out
to buy them new Jordan sneakers. He's played an integral
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role in Mooki's switch to shortstop, and when the team's bonding,
miggi Row is always the guy right in the middle
of it. He's the MC with the microphone on the
team bus. He's known as the glue. It keeps this
special group of guys bonded together. He said that he
wants to manage one day, and you can see how
he'd be a great manager. And then there's his flare,
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that blue Onyx von Cleef necklace that he wears, plus
the matching stud earrings. There's not too many guys who
can pull that off. With the iblack put on miggi Row,
it works. But miggi Row is a career below average hitter.
His ops plus is point eight two. That means he's
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almost twenty percent less productive offensively than the league average
player over his career. And miggi Row particularly has true
facing righty's and Toronto has Jeff Hoffman, a very tough,
hard throwing righty on the mound to close out this
game and this series for the Blue Jays. On top
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of all that, Miggie is thirty six aseball old, and
he hadn't played much through this October. This was just
his second start since October first, and in the only
other game he started, the previous night's Game six, he'd
gone oh for three and he hadn't recorded a hit
in a month. So, honestly, I was kind of surprised
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that Dodgers manager Dave Roberts let Miggi row hit here
with just two precious outs remaining before a World Series defeat. Dave,
what was the mood in the dugout like when mcel
was coming up there in the ninth.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Obviously it doesn't look great, you know, in that moment.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
In a presser following the game, the La Times, Jack
Harris asked Dave Roberts about his decision to use Mggi here.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
But you know, for us him to take the bat,
you know, it's nice when you can look down the
roster and have twenty six guys if you believe in
and know that at some point in time their number
is gonna be called, and and that's kind of what happened.
And so you know, Miggy row I talk about the
game honors you, and you know right there the game
honitor them.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Wow, Maggie row at the play rule, so gonna do
that slider?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
With that slider on the dirt, Miggy's first swing on
a pitch down and a way and way out of
the zone did not look good.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Every quarner of the roster is contributed during this run.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Going into this ninth inning, the Blue Jays had a
ninety one point seven win probability.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Take Good or they even bodied to forget him.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
During this at bat, Joe Davis and John Smoltz started
doing their wrap up talk block and they did the
thing where they show close ups of all the Blue
Jays players that had a big game, which gives you
an idea of how much faith people had that this
game could turn around at this point.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Went the distance in the Championship Series and have done
the same in the World Series.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
No, I Hay.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
When they start doing the wrap up spiels, it's like,
it's not over.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
We could still win this game. We could.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
So Toni waits on deck, Is Hoffman throws two runner.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
We get a base runner for show.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Hey, the camera's cut to show Hey, who's standing on deck?
The guy we've all been thinking about, praying for a
heroic moment from our superstar.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Hoffins two one in the air, foul round.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
That is going to reach the seats.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Meggie can't catch up to Hoffman's fastball.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Come on, Meggie, come on, Meggi Row.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Two two pitch ros rise. It often stays alive.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Two and two, ballot sounding just this, that's ball three,
William three and two and with the count now full,
everybody knows that a strike is coming. Jeff Hoffman doesn't
want to face show Hey with a runner on and
a chance to take the lead. He's going to give
him something to hit because he does not want to
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walk him and then face show Hey.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So he's gonna give him something in the zone. Come on, Maggie,
come on, biggie, bro. You got this, y'all.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Real?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Do not building deep.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The unlikely hero? Meggie Row, Yeah, I was never I
was never trying to beat that.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
How run?
Speaker 7 (07:41):
I think this is a first one wrong against right hand.
The picture during the whole year, and he came to
the biggest bottle of my life and my career in
front of these fans, saying in front of the and
my teammates kind of like, Hey, I can read this
guy right now, the emotions that I fail.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
This unlikely source says changed Game seven.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
It's tied at four.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Today on the show, we're talking all about Game seven,
but we're digging in deep on that exhilarating ending the
ninth through eleventh innings that followed this historic home run,
perhaps the most important home run in Dodgers' World Series history,
because it saved us from defeat and opened the doorway
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to some of the most exciting baseball I have ever seen.
And then it culminated in a Dodgers win and a
second consecutive World Series title, something that had not been
done in twenty five years, and the establishment of a
Dodgers dynasty three World Series wins in six years, and
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the second in two years that I've spent making this show,
Dodger Blue Dream. I'm Richard Parks, the third Thanks for
tuning in today's episode Game seven.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
What do you think should we keep doing this every year?
Dream On.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
They say that baseball is a game of inches. What's
fair and what's foul, what's a strike and what's a ball,
what's safe and what's out? These things are a matter
of minuscule margins, a game of inches, or, as this
is the World Series and we are in Canada, a
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game of millimeters, if you will, and you should in
the case of the bottom of the ninth inning of
this game seven, because with a tie game thanks to
Miggy Rose improb bull home run, there would be a
play that made all the difference for the result of
this game. And it looked a lot closer than mere inches.
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By the way, if you're wondering, there are about twenty
five millimeters in an inch. For my American listeners.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
All right, beautiful, beautiful thing. It's bottom of the ninth.
If they score, they win.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
In the bottom of the ninth inning Thai game, Blake
Snell on the mound for the Dodgers, and we were
gonna need him to be nearly perfect because as the
home team, all the Blue Jays had to do to
win the World Series was push a single run across.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And here they come.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Rolling.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
He just missed.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Vladimir Guerrero Junior just misses hitting a walk off home
run for the first out. But then Bob Sheet singles.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Line drive left field. That's down, and.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Addison Barger works a walk after a nine pitch battle
with Snell.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Payoff shut no way running a store.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Position control is usually the first thing to go when
a pitcher's tired and Snell was slipping.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Yoshi Nobu Yamamoto, twenty four hours after starting, had a
winning game.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Six wow.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Ready to do some heroic stuff coming on to face
kirk and a tie game at the bottom of the night.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Dave Roberts calls for right handed pitcher Yoshi Nobu Yamamoto,
who had already started and won two games in this
World Series, including Game six the day before. On zero
day's rest. Yamamoto comes out of the bullpen with two
on and one out in the bottom of the ninth
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inning and a tie game.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Oh wow, oh wow, Ready to do.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Some bullet stuff to face Toronto catcher Alejandro.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Kirker, the catcher that nobody wanted.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yama had thrown almost one hundred high pressure pitches the
day before. He'd thrown a complete game in Game two,
his second consecutive complete game after a three hitter he
threw during the CS.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
A chance to be a World Series hero. Takes a stride.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
First pitch splitter in there. It doesn't look like the
fatigue is affecting Yama at all, but then on just
the second pitch he throws, sinker, slips on it, and
it hits Kirk on the forearm. Faces loaded, Yama closes
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his eyes and throws his head back like h one
out Dalton Varshow coming to the pot.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Anyone walked it off with a sacrifice fly.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
At nineteen twelve, the Red Sox did it against Christy
Mathewson the hotel.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Favor, with the bases loaded and one out in the
bottom of the ninth inning and a tie ball game.
There are so many ways for the home team to win.
You don't need to get a hit to win it.
Any ball hit in the air hard enough could win it,
as long as the runner at third tags up and
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makes it home before the throw. A ground ball could
win it if the force out isn't made at home,
and if it's not a double play. Obviously a walk
or a hit by pitch could win it. But mostly
we're all thinking about the sacrifice fly. If Dalton Varshow
can get the ball in the air to the outfield,
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especially to the middle to right side of the outfield,
he could give his teammate on third base enough time
to tag up and make it home, and only a
high velocity, very accurate throw from the outfield with a
good tag could stop that from happening. Two players on
the baseball field were subbed in in this inning, specifically
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for a scenario like this one from each team. For
the Blue Jays, Isaiah Kiner Falaffa Ikf is now the
runner at third base. Blue Jays manager John Schneider subbed
him in after Bashett singled. Bashett is coming off of
an injury, and he's not running well. He's got a
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bum knee, and this was a big decision. Bashett had
hit the three run home run that had given the
Blue Jays the lead in the first place. It's still
a tie ball game, and theoretically it could go on forever,
but Schneider opted for a fresh base runner over keeping
Bashett's bat in the lineup. They're trying to win it here, obviously,
in the bottom of the ninth. Ikf's is to take
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every opportunity to make it home with smart base running.
And for the Dodgers, Dave Roberts has brought in Andy
Payees to play center field. Pajes had been in the
lineup all postseason long. He's a very talented young ballplayer.
He plays great defense and the motivating factor for this switch.
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He has a terrific arm, and he had a really
good year at the plate too. He hit twenty seven
home runs, But when the calendar turned to October, Pie
started slumping. In fifty one at bats, he'd gotten only
four hits for a point zero seven to eight batting average.
As the nine hole hitter in front of Shohei Otani.
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That's just not acceptable. Ironically, Pajes's offensive struggles are actually
the reason that Miguel Rojas was in the lineup for
this World Series. Dave Roberts had put Miggy Rowe at
second and moved Tommy Edmund into play center field. But
Tommy Edmund doesn't have a great arm and Andy Pajes does,
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and so after the hit by pitch that loaded the bases,
Dave Roberts subbed in Andy Pajes. I kf is at
third trying to get home. Andy Pajes is in center
field trying to stop him, and Miggy Rowe, having just
hit the home run to tie the game in the
top of the inning, is playing second. Bottom of the ninth,
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one out.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Don't show him.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Up, No where to put him free alto photo gonna
from out for the winning role.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Everybody at the Rogers Center is standing and after a
foul ball and a cold strike, it's one and two.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
One two pitch bar show.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Varshow chops a one to two splitter to the right
side of the infield, right towards Miguel Rojas, who's playing
on the edge of the infield grass in to reduce
the time it would take to make this play. At
the plate, Miggie ranges slightly to his right, drops down
briefly to his right knee, and stabs the ball off
the second bounce backhanded. With Ikf running flat out towards
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home plate, Miggie wobbles his momentum carrying him backwards, but
then he rights himself, plants his feet, double clutches, and
throws home to Will Smith, who stretches out his left
arm like a first baseman to glove the ball for
a force out just ahead of Ikf's foot first slide.
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Game of inches or millimeters. Let's roll the tape a second.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Let's the girl Rosas, who ties it on the top
of the kne saves it on.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
The bottom of the nine. Wow, you got the runner
at home. I mean he was stumbling.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
They're going to take a look, just to take a look.
Speaker 8 (18:05):
But he had lost his balance right here and gathered
to make the draw very close. Look at this, I
mean almost loses every bit of those balance to make
this drow.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
But oh, he's on the plate.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
But then looking at the replay, there's a problem.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
Question is going to be that will Smith have his
spike on the plate or not in time on the field,
is that he's out.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
As he stretches out to catch the ball, Will Smith
lifts his right cleat off of home plate just at
the moment Ikf is sliding in before putting it back
down again. Blue Jays manager John Schneider challenges the out
call at home. If the call is reversed, the Blue
Jays win the World Series.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Man, this would be an epic reversal. It's off, it's down.
I think it's back down.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Before his foot it's the plate where it's so close.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Then, instead of a World Series victory for the Blue Jays,
it was the second out of the bottom of the
ninth inning, still a tie game, and a bird's eye
view shows that Ikf had a very small lead off
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a third base at the time of contact. With Mickey
Rose stumbling backwards and the kind of double clutch and
Will Smith lifting his cleat off of the plate, it
is highly plausible, if not certain, that Ikf would have
been safe in the Blue Jays would have won the
World Series had Ikf taken a normal length lead off
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of third base. The night before Game six of the
World Series ended on a double play where there was
a fly ball to Keik Hernandez in the outfield and
then he threw to Miggy Row at second and doubled
off Addison Barger, and apparently the Blue Jays coaching staff
was trying to avoid something similar here. They told us
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to stay close to the base. Ikf told sportsnets Ben
Nicholson Smith after the game. They don't want us to
get doubled off in that situation with a hard line drive.
Varshow hits the ball really really hard. Munsey's right there.
I'm waiting for a backpick from Will Smith in that situation,
meaning throw to third to pick him off. So Ikf
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is giving two reasons for the short lead. One that
a line drive right at Munsei would give him enough
time to both catch the ball and beat Ikf back
to third to double him off and end the inning,
and two that Will Smith would backpick him, which many
baseball media people have pointed out is a play that
has basically never happened. Ikf is said that he wanted
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to avoid a double play, which I guess he succeeded
in doing. The inning continued with two outs, which led
to another play that nobody will ever forget. We'll get
into that and the rest of the thrilling, entertaining baseball
that ensued during Game seven. After a short break, still
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in the bottom of the ninth inning, with the bases
still loaded, Ernie Clement comes to the plate with yet
another chance for the Blue Jays to score a run
and win this World Series.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Ernie Clement has talked it more hits in this postseason
than any hitter in any postseason.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
I am a perennial baseball Pollyanna. I never give up faith,
but I will admit that in this moment, I thought
for sure the Dodgers were gonna lose the World Series.
The way the ball came off the bat, solid contact,
shooting straight up to left center field, it just looked
like trouble.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Hernandez on the run up.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
The broadcast shows a wide shot of the outfield, and
you see Keik Hernandez, who's playing left field, racing to
the warning track, looking back over his right shoulder. As
the ball flies through the air towards the outfield, seats operas.
But then as the camera zooms in, Andy Pajes enters
the frame. He was playing super shallow in center field,
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but it looks like he's got a bead on the
ball as well, coming from the opposite direction. The two
outfielders triangulating towards the baseball. I wonder as either of
them have it clocked. It just doesn't look good, and
I still can't tell if the ball is going to
stay in the ballpark. If it goes out, the blue
Jays win. If it drops, the blue Jays win. And
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the reaction in the room I was watching in tells
the tail PA has over time.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
As they reach the warning.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Track, the two outfielders are vectoring towards each other, running
at top speed on a collision course with either the ball,
the wall, or themselves, each of them traveling at if
we use their top sprint speeds, almost thirty feet per second.
These are two beefyed dudes.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Mind you.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Andy Pajes is listed at six' one two hundred and
twelve Pounds kik five ten one ninety.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Five that's a lot of.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Meat by the time their feet hit the dirt of
the warning, track they're about six feet, apart both of
their necks crane, back staring straight, up eyes fixed on
the ball. Overhead it doesn't look like either of them
is calling the other, off but the crowd's, deafening so
there's no way that they could hear one another.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Anyway and With kik trying to make.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
A basket catch glove out in front of him Like Willie,
mays they both start to jump and their front legs
collide and Pa haes basically body.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Slams kik in mid.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Air he dunks on, him his left thigh kind of
Clotheslining keik's, back and in, Midair kik kind of goes
into a backflip with his legs rotating up out in
front of, him and then Pa, hees now sailing up
above his, teammate squeezes the ball in his mitt and
slams into the wall As kik rolls in the dirt.
Below holy.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Like if that was football was passing.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Appearance, right thank, you thank, you thank.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
You, okay so bases load at nine, thing ball, drops
we lose.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Right KEY k talked about his experience of the catch
On Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
KIM i get a bad, JUMP i.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
BROKE i have to step in and.
Speaker 9 (25:03):
Then i'm running And i'm thinking about my entire life
As i'm following this, ball AND i felt Like i've
ran four on a mere, dash and like AS i
finally am about to catch the, Ball i'm, like the
only THING i got to worry about is the, wall,
Right and if you look at the, Video i'm slowing
down Because i've got it and out of. NOWHERE i
felt like AN nba player because my teammate posterized me
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AND i go down and in my head everything is,
quiet which should have told me that he caught. It
But i'm like my brain has protecting me from. Heartbreak
we just lost This World series.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Because my teammate dunked on.
Speaker 9 (25:39):
Me And i'm just laying on the ground sad because
we had just lost The World series AND i feel
it like.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
A tap in the. Back he's, like are you?
Speaker 9 (25:47):
Okay AND i was, like f, me being, okay did
you catch?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
It he, goes, YEAH i caught.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
IT i was, like, oh, yeah let's.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
GO i just got.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
It you would have caught it.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Out ninth inning.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
Over.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Wow so basses loaded and The jays came so so
close to winning it more than once in the bottom
of the, ninth but no. Dice onto the top of the,
Tenth freddy flies, out but Then mooki draws a, walk
And munsey singles to center field first and. Second Then
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tao works a. Walk Good, anya and the basses are.
Loaded we've got a chance to blow this thing, open
which would be great because the guy we have on
the mound threw one hundred pitches yesterday and through a
complete game a couple days before. That but with the bases,
loaded All Andy pajes could do is ground out to
shortstop and with The toronto infield in in a play
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that mirrored what happened in the bottom of the ninth
inning With Ikf mooki was forced out at, home except
Unlike Ikf mooki was out by a. Mile after, That
kiki had a swinging bunt to the right side and
that was the third.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Out Torontos ona the basis on a Jam it's. Day
it's tied at four the flottom of the tenth.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Did gage seven bottom of the. Tenth The jays had
the nine hole hitter due, up and then it was
the top of the, order post season hero and. Revile
the Former houston Astro George springer was due, next But
yama was nails three, up three down the eleventh.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Inning this is a night we're going to talk about
for a long, time no matter how it, finishes no
matter who the last two.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Is before we'd had eighteen innings In game, three and
it was starting to feel like this one could go
on forever. Too for the top of the, eleventh we
Had Meggie, rowe the game's home run hitting, hero followed
By Shoe, hey the best baseball player On, earth, who
(28:02):
in his first two seasons as A dodger has hit
over one hundred home runs and could easily change this
into a five to four game with a single, swing
followed By Will, Smith america's. Catcher But toronto had brought
On Cy Young award Winner Shane, bieber who had outpitched
Show hay In game, four to help hold the, lead
(28:24):
and with just three, Pitches bieber had induced groundouts from
Both meggie row and Show. Hey it was up To
smitty Will. Smith before This game, seven in the history
of The World, series there had only ever been one
game tying or go ahead home run hit in the
(28:45):
ninth inning or later of a winner take all. Game
that Was Bill mazeroski in nineteen. Sixty Miggi roe's home
run in the top of the ninth was the second
such home. Run and then here in the eleventh Will
smith Joined zarowski And Miggy rowe on this.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
List, smith it's a high fly ball to deep left.
Field it's got a. Chance there's God Jesh. Smith In game.
Speaker 10 (29:12):
Seven, yeah the eve Of game, seven The dodgers laid.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
For the first time.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
They Will smith's home run sails over the left field,
wall takes a single, bounce and goes into the, stand
landing in the exact same spot As Miguel rojas's homer.
Did two innings, BEFORE i saw this video posted by
(30:10):
A dodger fan who it seemed looked like he was
in a party of two in a stadium full Of
Toronto Blue jay. Fans this is what it sounded like
When smitty's home run landed in the. Stands, wow.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Why oh?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
YEAH i.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Whoa the silence is crushingly.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Loud.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
But then a down line turns the exist faces, tired
hoarded score position.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Plash in the bottom of the, Eleventh Vladimir Guerrero junior.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Hit a leadoff.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
DOUBLE i k f perfectly executed a sacrifice bunt and
with one, Out toronto has the tying run on third.
Base they gave up the out to advance the runner
because once again everybody's thinking about the sacrifice fly that
could tie the. Game they're playing to, tie not necessarily to,
win but they want to extend the game and they're executing,
(31:21):
good solid baseball fundamentals By Toronto Blue, jays team many
say is better than The. Dodgers but after a four
pitch walk To Addison, barger it was now first and
third with one out And Alejandro kirk coming to the.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Plate World series could end on one swing in either.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
Direction here's THE o two pitch bounces.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Come out The dodgers stump.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
Toples after the boys got home From, toronto we had
(32:39):
a rally At Dodger, stadium in a parade through the
streets Of La already the players are talking about a three.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Peak i'm ready to get another.
Speaker 9 (32:49):
Ring.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Another ring three in three.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Years dream On.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Dodger Blue dream is written and produced By Me Richard
parks the Third this episode was story edited By Caitlin.
Esh original music in this episode By William Ryan, Fritch Jonathan,
Snipes boyd Pro The Blasting, company and By. Me production
(33:30):
assistants From Tyler hill And Elizabeth Parks. Kibbi my co
host Is chef Wes. Avila Dodger Blue dream is produced
in partnership With Iheart's My cultura podcast. Network for more
podcasts From, iHeart visit The iHeartRadio, App Apple, podcasts or
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