r/baseball • u/handlit33 Atlanta Braves • 17d ago
Tim Anderson bat drop and walk-off reaction. GIF
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u/lemondhead Colorado Rockies 17d ago
What a game that was. I'd watch 10 more of those.
Were those balls juiced, or were the pitchers that bad and the walls that close?
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u/Accomplished-Monk254 17d ago
The fences are like 6 feet tall so any liner that goes 335 on the line goes out.
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u/tiga4life22 17d ago
So like Yankee stadium
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u/smellyjerk Chicago White Sox 17d ago
The dimensions are based on old comiskey park lol
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u/mbmariogc3s 16d ago
Should've based it on the Polo Grounds
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u/kozilla Chicago White Sox 16d ago
Everyone remember the Polo ground for the enormous power alley/CF dimensions, but down the lines it was one of the shortest fields ever... 279 ft to LF, 258 ft to RF. Add in the fact that lots of inside the park homers become possible with those power alleys and I think the park would play a lot differently than people think.
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u/Archer-Saurus Arizona Diamondbacks 16d ago
MLB The Show intensifies
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u/CommentsRarely 16d ago
In this old game called High Heat you could have a homerun derby at polo grounds but the hits would just be home runs if u had good contact, the game didn't factor in distance so if you hit them out in center the ball would just go like 800 feet haha
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u/DementedUnicorn Chicago White Sox 17d ago
Well, and I do not mean any disrespect to the Yankees, one of those pitchers was Andrew "Meatball" Heaney
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u/Patrickrk New York Yankees 17d ago
That’s not disrespectful at all. It was a combination of a lot of things, bad pitching, players being more excited, humidity, (in my opinion) juiced balls. 16 of the 17 runs scored were by home run. Two of those homers by Anderson and one by Gardner, two guys who are not home run hitters.
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u/UncleGoldie Chicago White Sox 17d ago
Fwiw Tim Anderson may have literally been put on this earth for the express purpose of hitting memorable walk-off HRs
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u/Aperture-Employee Chicago White Sox 17d ago
Timmy hits homers in the first AB of the game or the last and fucking nowhere else and I love it
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u/Archer-Saurus Arizona Diamondbacks 16d ago
Gardner hit exactly his style of home run: a screaming piss missle that barely clears a short porch in right. Seemed pretty normal to me.
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u/liftoff88 Chicago White Sox 16d ago
Two of those homers by Anderson and one by Gardner, two guys who are not home run hitters.
Weird you’d say TA isn’t, when that was his 13th HR of the season, and not include Seby.
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u/tuckedfexas Seattle Mariners 16d ago
I mean if I’m the MLB I’m sure as fuck juicing those balls. How kinda sad would it have been if the game was 1-0, this game needed to be exciting for sure
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u/michaelt2223 17d ago
That’s what humidity does to baseballs.
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u/trymeitryurmom New York Yankees 17d ago
Those balls were definitely juiced. Anderson had a 300 ft check swing out earlier in the game
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u/doc_faced Oakland Athletics 17d ago
Humidity. Lots of humidity. And the walls were not that high. Some of those HRs definitely stay in the park at regular MLB parks.
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u/oakleez 17d ago
I mean maybe I'm just used to it, but it's 74% humidity here (I live 20min from Field of Dreams). Could definitely be worse.
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u/SuperDBallSam Chicago White Sox 17d ago
Wasn't bad this morning, but it got pretty dang humid this afternoon. (Also 20ish minutes from Field of Dreams.)
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u/WxBlue St. Louis Cardinals 17d ago
Meteorologist here: I don't like using relative humidity (74%) to tell the story because having relative humidity of 74% when the air temperature is 50 is not "humid" at all in traditional sense. Using dew point is a much better measure on how moist the atmosphere is. The dew point is the temperature the air needs to be cooled to (at constant pressure) in order to achieve a relative humidity (RH) of 100%. As a southerner... any dew point above 70 is pretty humid, with 75 being extremely so. 80 is just soup at that point and can be found along the Gulf Coast and the Lowcountry of Carolinas.
During the game, the humidity at the nearest airport with NWS weather stations (Monticello, Iowa) was recording between 72 to 77 degrees during the game. That's pretty damn humid and can really juice up baseballs.
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u/Ferentzfever 16d ago
Add in transpiration... an acre of corn can give off 4000 gallons of water per day... and they were smack dab in the middle of 100s of acres of corn. Having played high-school baseball in Iowa (which we play in the summer) on fields next to and/or surrounded by cornfields I can tell you, it's often much more humid on the field than in town / at the airport.
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u/zerovanillacodered Philadelphia Phillies 16d ago
As a native of the low country in NC... thank you for explaining why I was so miserable mowing the lawn when I was a kid.
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u/UncleGoldie Chicago White Sox 17d ago
Also the audible bat cracks on every hit due to the mic set-up at this game made every well struck ball sound like a dong off the bat.
Also so many meatball pitches.
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u/chaosof99 Philadelphia Phillies 17d ago
As an NHL fan this is basically what the Winter Classic was like for us. Unfortunately then the NHL started overdoing it and had at one point I believe six stadium games in a single year.
I think it would be cool to have this game in that exact location once a year, but if you do it too much it kind of loses a bit of its flair.
Then again, I can't complain too much considering the offshoot Stadium Series gave us the Flyers-Pens game at the Linc in 2019.
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u/[deleted] 17d ago
I bet adrenaline played a part. Regular season games are repetitive. Games like these bring out the best in players.
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u/SPDScricketballsinc Chicago White Sox 17d ago
Wind blowing out, humidity, just a different environment
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u/SuperDBallSam Chicago White Sox 17d ago
I can't speak to whether or not the balls were juiced. (And neither can anyone else in this thread.) But I gotta think the fact that they were playing on a ball field with only 8000 seats as opposed to being surrounded on all sides by a giant stadium would have some effect on how the ball would fly.
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u/WxBlue St. Louis Cardinals 17d ago
Meteorologist here - I don't think having 8,000 seats make a big difference comparing to having 45,000 seats. At least not as huge of a difference as the Iowan humidity would make during peak corn crop. Locals there call the month of August the "corn sweat" because of how moist and humid the air get from the corn. That would really juice up baseballs.
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u/stupidcrap420 17d ago
MLB executives sucking each other off in between lines of cocaine tonight
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u/SuperDBallSam Chicago White Sox 17d ago
Looking forward to the stories I'm gonna hear from my people that work at the Hotel Julien.
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u/flightsim777 St. Louis Cardinals 17d ago
TBF if i was an exec, after the insane game tonight, i would probably be in a fridge at the coroners office after how much coke i did to celebrate how well this went. This probably went 300% better then their best expectations.
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u/FirePowerCR Chicago White Sox 16d ago
That was a nearly flawless broadcast. They had drones flying all over and getting solid shots and not crashing. Interesting Pregame interviews and videos. A sick iconic stadium next to an iconic movie set. All kinds of perfectly designed throwback aesthetics. And then the game with 9th inning drama with a walk off for the pretty much home team. Like they should do it again, but I don’t see how they live up to that?
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u/PMMeYourDairyPillows 17d ago
Straight out of a movie...
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u/ndemerson Atlanta Braves 17d ago
Tim probably hasn't watched that one either
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u/Baseball_Witts Miami Marlins 16d ago
He said it on a podcast once that he hasn’t and he just wanted to play in a corn field lmao
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u/Notre_Dame_Football 17d ago
This game was arguably the best thing to happen to baseball in a long time. What a showcase.
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u/SuperDBallSam Chicago White Sox 17d ago
As a baseball fan, I'm thrilled with every bit of that. As a native Iowan (live about 25 minutes from Field of Dreams), and a White Sox fan, I am absolutely awestruck. Haven't felt this way about anything in a long time. I just fell madly in love with baseball all over again. Truly special.
"How can you not be romantic about baseball?"
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u/jeffereryjefferson Los Angeles Dodgers 17d ago
Yes I am kinda mind blown by how that game turned out.
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u/Tommy-Two-Times 17d ago
Yeah, I love the MLB. So, I couldn’t have been happier about how it turned out.
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u/ndemerson Atlanta Braves 17d ago
Now go watch the movie, Tim!
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u/BoosherCacow Cleveland Indians 16d ago
Hijacking a comment to ask what that gesture means, I've never seen it before. Does it have a name or some significance?
I was forcibly reminded of my dad's rheumatic arthritis the way his hands were positioned and holy shit was I not ready for that emotional response.
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u/aceboogie601 16d ago
Vince Carter's celebration after winning the dunk competition awhile back.
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u/TacitlyDaft Chicago White Sox 16d ago
Sorry to hear that. That is certainly an unexpected encounter during a baseball game.
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u/BoosherCacow Cleveland Indians 16d ago
Nah, don't be sorry my friend. Since he and I shared so much baseball his mug shows up quite often in my head in connection with baseball. It's nice. He wasn't crippled by the arthritis, his hands were just gnarled like that so the association wasn't unpleasant.
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u/Spinmove55 California Angels 17d ago
He definitely earned it. What a game!
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u/ScorchedAnus Chicago White Sox 17d ago
Totally. We will be seeing this on MLB promos for years lol
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u/JayMerlyn Chicago White Sox 17d ago
Hey, I'm all for it!
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u/trymeitryurmom New York Yankees 17d ago
I for one am not
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u/wil555 New York Yankees 17d ago
I can live with it. Field of Dreams, White Sox walk off, can't get too mad at that.
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u/funsohng Toronto Blue Jays 17d ago
Ngl, batflips are cool but I always thought some of the MLB bat drops are as swag as Asian batflips.
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u/huffer4 Toronto Blue Jays 17d ago
That absolute doofus in the front row staring at his phone makes me unreasonably angry
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u/yoursweetlord70 Chicago White Sox 17d ago
If there was ever a time to not look at your phone, bottom of the 9th with the home team down by 1 at the fuckin field of dreams is it.
Look at your phone between at bats? Fine, between innings is even better. But you paid to watch a baseball game, so watch the damn game. Idiot didn't even see the swing that won the game, but you know he's gonna tell all his friends about how awesome the swing was anyways.
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u/Lionheart1224 Chicago White Sox 16d ago
Didn't just pay for it. Paid at least four figures for that ticket.
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u/FirePowerCR Chicago White Sox 16d ago
I wonder if jomboy will call it out. His mom or girlfriend was watching and got his attention.
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u/BeardedWonder47 Los Angeles Dodgers 17d ago
This is how I feel about every game I watch.. get the damn ungrateful idiots out of those seats. Let the real fans pay their hard earned money to sit in the best seats in the house and actually enjoy it
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u/dylansesco San Francisco Giants 16d ago
I mean this is why fans in SF hate the wave and beachballs and people say we don't want to have fun lol
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u/Monk_Philosophy Los Angeles Dodgers 16d ago
If I can hit a beach ball during a concert and still enjoy the concert I can smack a beach ball during a baseball game and still watch the game.
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u/dasoxarechamps2005 Chicago White Sox 17d ago
Probably just rich and doesn’t care about baseball. Really fucked up
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u/dreadredheadzedsdead Chicago White Sox 16d ago
Props to that Cubs fan in the Wrigleyville uni. He was pumped up
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u/bran_bran New York Yankees 17d ago
Knew it was gonna be a big night for TA, he just lives for the spotlight (just wish it wasn’t a walk off after a near comeback by my team 😭)
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u/Dusty-05 17d ago
fr bro same, after the Yankees had a GREAT top 9th, Tim walked it off in a cool way
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u/Yolopogo Houston Astros 17d ago
I so wish he just pimped the hell out of that bat, but that was pretty sweet too.
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u/tenacious-g Chicago White Sox 17d ago
Should have thrown it into the corn
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u/HazyIPAs Oakland Athletics 17d ago
This comment made me think of the Muncy/Bumgarner beef and now I want the same thing to happen here where someone says “go get it out of the corn”
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u/TheThoroughCrocodile 17d ago
Maybe unpopular but I'm glad he didn't. If there's ever a time to not excessively pimp a homer, and just do things more the old fashioned way, isn't this the night?
It was already a magical day for all in every way possible, and he just ended it in a story book fashion. Let the moment and the play speak for itself and just celebrate the game with your teammates and fans everywhere.
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u/full_metal_brobot San Francisco Giants 16d ago
ah yes, old fashioned baseball. a simpler time with no bat flips and no Tim Andersons
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u/michaelt2223 17d ago
Hendricks forgot to tell him they’re supposed to throw the game
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u/dogboyboy New York Yankees 16d ago
Other way around. Forgot to tell Stanton. I’m a Yankee fan but you can’t have the bad guys win this game. Had to be the sox
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u/swarlyisback St. Louis Cardinals 16d ago
I'm pretty sure OP was referencing the Black Sox scandal. Y'know, the inspiration for field of dreams
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u/evcorder Texas Rangers 17d ago
Tim Anderson the coldest player in all of baseball. Good for him. Good for baseball.
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u/wonderboywilliams 17d ago
More runs than hits, how often does that happen?
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u/doc_faced Oakland Athletics 17d ago
A's today: 17 runs, 14 hits
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u/wonderboywilliams 17d ago
Talking about between both teams, but yeah, that game was close.
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u/JDog1402 Cleveland Indians 17d ago
We really didn’t add much to the hit column. It’d make it an even 17 each.
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u/yumyumapollo Tampa Bay Rays 17d ago
99 Diamond Tim Anderson is going to be a STUD.
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u/yoursweetlord70 Chicago White Sox 17d ago
Yes pls, my lineup needs more white sox in it. That the best TA7 card right now is the 88 ovr 42 series is criminal.
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u/GoldNippleClamps Chicago White Sox 16d ago
Are you referring to the absolute Javelin against the Royals?
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u/Peter_Panarchy Seattle Mariners 17d ago
Love the dude zoned out on his phone and the girl smacks him to get his attention
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u/godly_mercs Chicago White Sox 17d ago
I love Tim Anderson.
All my Southside Homies love Tim Anderson
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u/Durango_bob New York Yankees 17d ago
As soon as there was a runner on first and Britton on the mound, I knew exactly what was going to happen. The Yankees have done this so many times this year.
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u/IronicTunaFish New York Yankees 17d ago
It’s become a competition between my buddies and I. How many saves will the Yankees blow this year? The over/under is at 22.
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u/holybolt9 Detroit Tigers 17d ago
Tim Anderson is a top 5 fun guy to watch in baseball.
And this is from a Tigers fan. If he wasn’t a south sider, I’d buy a jersey
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u/ZarosGuardian Philadelphia Phillies 17d ago
That game was amazing, but watching Liam collapse like that was infuriating, and it also confuses me that he gets the win even though he blew a save. The way they calculate who wins just never make sense. But hell yeah Tim Anderson!
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u/yoursweetlord70 Chicago White Sox 17d ago
That right there is why wins/losses are basically meaningless for a pitcher. A pitcher can throw 9 innings, let up 1 run, and be credited with the loss while Hendriks can do everything in his power to blow the game, and still get credited a win.
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u/rob_s_458 Chicago White Sox 17d ago
I think in another thread someone noted that of his 6 blown saves this year, Hendriks went on to get the win in 4 of them.
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u/GoldGlove2720 Chicago White Sox 16d ago
Yeah. He hasnt pitched in a couple of games and every single time he takes a break he gets shelled. Not sure what the fuck happened with alternating saves between him and Kimbrel. It gives them more games to stay hot and less pressure when it isnt a save situation. Idiotic.
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u/MildlyInconvenient San Francisco Giants 17d ago
Tim is up there for just the coolest player in the league
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u/Bitches_Be_Bonkerz New York Mets 17d ago
Fucking guy in the background on his phone what a damn shame he missed the crack of the bat
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u/Soxogram Chicago White Sox 16d ago
This was epic! The Sox often don’t get any national love —-it was beautiful to see, that for one awesome night we were on center stage and won in such a dramatic way.
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u/AllOfTheDerp Cleveland Naps 17d ago
Tim has fucking 90 grade swag I wish he didn't play for an ALC team
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u/Own_Entertainment_90 Chicago White Sox 17d ago edited 17d ago
It’s fucked up that Tim Anderson wouldn’t have been allowed in the MLB in 1919
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u/dreadredheadzedsdead Chicago White Sox 17d ago
I’m so glad to see the White Sox have 4 black players who are absolute all star caliber. They built the sport, it doesn’t survive without black players.
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u/younggun92 Chicago White Sox 17d ago
TA, LuBob, Eloy, and...
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u/dreadredheadzedsdead Chicago White Sox 17d ago
Ok, All star caliber was an overzealous statement. I mean TA, Robert, BGood and Billy Hamilton.
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u/younggun92 Chicago White Sox 17d ago
Hah, yeah those four are the soul of the team too. Goodwin and Billy especially never stop smiling.
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u/TysonBison7 New York Yankees 17d ago
These teams match up so well. We would be lucky to see them in a playoff series.
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u/andrew_wessel New York Yankees 17d ago
As a Yankees fan, this made me sick
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u/Lionheart1224 Chicago White Sox 16d ago
But as a baseball fan it made you feel romantic!
...right?
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u/AngryYank2 New York Yankees 16d ago
Crazy 9th. Not a fan of the results, but I'm glad Iowans got to see one hell of a finish.
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u/Barkerfan86 16d ago
One of the best games I have ever seen. I was almost in tears when I first seen the field and the players walking out from the corn.
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u/GamerNanedTim Cleveland Indians 16d ago
He's so goddamn cool. I really wish he wasn't in the same division
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u/Tadster4 New York Mets 17d ago
Anyone know what the handshaking at the neck celebration means? Is it like "no choke" because he prevented them from choking and losing? I've seen it a few times this year now
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u/Shamus_Beaglehole Houston Astros 17d ago
I think he was saying "it's over!".. basically like calling "game."
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u/dreadredheadzedsdead Chicago White Sox 17d ago
Think he was saying ‘it’s over’ and gesturing to indicate that the game was a wrap
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u/NannerRepublican Cincinnati Reds 17d ago
A good bat drop turns me on more than a flip ever will
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u/Lionheart1224 Chicago White Sox 16d ago
Grandal is the HR hitter for you, then. Sexiest bat drops in da league.
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u/JcGotNext St. Louis Cardinals 17d ago
It’s cliche but you actually can’t script a baseball movie better than how that game turned out
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u/tiga4life22 17d ago
For me, Best thing to happen in baseball since jomboy, and I doubt he’ll be commenting on this one 😆
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u/Shade_SST Minnesota Twins 17d ago
Speaking as someone who is ambivalent about bat flips, this is one of those where he earned every fucking second of that. Big bat flip on a solo shot? I'm kinda over that. Enjoying a walkoff homerun in the Field of Dreams game? Hell yeah, have some fun.
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u/Gatorguy35 Chicago White Sox 17d ago
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u/handlit33 Atlanta Braves 17d ago
You can just go to gfycat and save the video in a number of formats, let me know if you need help.
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u/lemondhead Colorado Rockies 17d ago
Hi, idiot checking in. Can you do that on mobile? I can't figure it out because I am from 1927, apparently.
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u/handlit33 Atlanta Braves 17d ago
It can be weird sometimes depending on what device you're using, here's the direct link. Let me know if that works.
https://giant.gfycat.com/ImmaculateWhichAfricanaugurbuzzard.mp4
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u/alunsmears84 New York Yankees 17d ago
Great game, not too happy with the end result. Helluva show though, or movie I should say.
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u/TerrenceJesus8 Detroit Tigers 17d ago
I look forward to this dude tormenting me for another 15 years