That was a great play by the Dodgers CF. If he hadn’t made it, the Jays would have won the WS. There were a few other examples of game saving defensive plays by Dodgers.
After Freeman hit into an inning-ending double play in the 7th, I thought the BJs had it. Clutch HRs from Rojas, Muncy and Smith, and what an amazing performance from Yamamoto.
I’m finally fully into the baseball season and now it’s over…
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A friend posted this on FB:“I know why the Blue Jays lost!
Ted Cruz is Canadian.
#notonlyinTexas”
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Probably he most evenly matched teams in a long time.
Disclaimer: not looking up anything on this.
Some awesome/heads-up defensive plays in this Series, some of which abetted by poor baserunning.
Close mostly plays verified by review.
Two games finished in less than three hours. One, yes, 6h:39m.
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I think he recently renounced his Canadian citizenship as he rightly thought it would be detrimental to his future presidential ambitions? Having said that, just being Ted Cruz is detrimental to his chances.
Was curious if this series had the most total innings in history. I assumed so, since they crammed a whole extra game there in the middle. With the extra innings last night it was a total of 74, the most in the modern era. I guess back in 1912 or something they played 8 games and a total of 75 innings.
I posted about this last week - I think the record was 73 innings, so this would have broken that.
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There were several individual records broken by a variety of players. I expect 20 years from now people will be asking “who was Ernie Clements?” as he set the record for the most hits (30) in a post-season but spent most of his career in the minors. Hard to say whether record-setter Yesavage will be a household name but more likely than Clements.
He almost won it on that fly ball that Pages caught. Felt bad for him. The look on his face when he was standing on first base, looking at the dodgers celebrating was so sad.
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Doesn’t the team that was scored on get to kickoff in soccer and basically get to keep the ball on offense? Not like mericn football where you have to kickoff to the other team (expect an on-sides kick)?
Yes. But it can be fleeting. Much easier to lose “possession” of the ball in soccer (and the puck in hockey) than in mer-cun Football.
I’ve officiated baseball, basketball, and soccer. I would say basketball is by far the hardest to do well, although I don’t envy the referee-to-field-area or referee-to-player ratios soccer referees have to deal with.
Baseball, football, tennis, etc. have very defined points in time you need to pay attention, whereas the more fluid sports require constant focus and hustle. And if you watched Big10 vs. Pac10 (RIP) basketball the last decade, you can see that there’s a lot of leeway in how to officiate those games and you need to develop consistency within your officiating crew. It’s tricky… tricky tricky tricky
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thanks for the informed reply. i have only officiated baseball/softball. and worked a little for volleyball. but had convinced myself that the games with constant flow seem harder.
basketball is something. the small court, the ever larger and faster players (good HS varsity and above the men are HUGE) and tons of contact you have to weigh as allowed/not allowed. add to it that the fans are the closest to the playing field of any and the constant barrage of feedback…not for me.
Encouraging viewing numbers for baseball.
https://www.mlb.com/amp/news/world-series-game-7-viewership-is-best-since-1991.html
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Thanks to Canderder, I’m sure
And Japan. But US viewership was relatively good as well for the entire series.
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Prior to Skenes - 4 players won a Cy Young in their first two seasons.
None are in the HoF
Were they injuries or did they just fizzle out?
Was Mark Fidrych one? I can’t think of anyone else likely.
Dontrell Willis?