I will say it again. I absolutely cannot believe how far you blokes have come in your understanding of baseball. When Damo explained why the bunt was a good idea I nearly fell out of my chair. It was crisp, clean and accurate. Well done guys, well done!! Easily my favorite channel just because of the tremendous effort you both have put in to become extremely competent with your understanding of baseball. I am floored. ♥
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100% agree, it's quite unbelievable, because us TH-cam folks are used to clueless reactors when it comes to sports. The ones that take their time to understand the intricacies of the sport are rare, the ones that dive this deep ... yeah sorry, they don't exist apart from these guys.
Yep. As a Jays fan, that was demoralizing having lost both games at home. But I remember telling my sister, they'll start coming back. I had a feeling.
@@DNReacts Not just that this was the first time in 22 years the Jays made it to the postseason. People country wide (only MLB team in Canada) were going nuts. If you want another look up the jays 27-5 blow out of the Red Sox...
The play under review. The runner was out by force from the catcher having his foot on the plate, since there were runners behind its a force out. But he slid into the catcher to prevent the catcher from making a double play throwing to first base. Since the catcher was still on the plate when the slide started, it was a smart play by the runner to take down the catcher preventing a double play. Umps reviewed the play to see if the slide was clean, if not, they could have counted it as a double play.
But importantly; until pretty recently the runner coming from 3rd to home base was allowed to steamroll the catcher. And they would just tackle the catcher in hopes he would drop the ball. Injuries galore. They changed the rule whenever ago. So they were reviewing to make sure- because if the catcher is trying to make a double play then he is treated as an infielder, not a catcher. You can slide and take out an infielder if you're within reach of the base, in order to prevent them making a double play. You cant take out catchers at home guarding home base.
I think today they would have called that interference, but the rule was a little looser then. Beginning the following season pretty much any contact would be considered interference.
If you're asking about the worst error ever, I think most baseball fans would tell you it's Bill Buckner in the 86 world series. The poor guy got death threats for years after he let the ball go through his legs
He probably still did up until 2004. There is a great curb your enthusiasm episode with him in it where he's still getting heckled. Obviously a show but I'm sure he still hears about it from some people. As if the guy wasn't heartbroken .
Thanks for this, seen a lot of mentions of Buckner in these comments. Definitely feels like a moment we’re going to have to watch. Appreciate the comment 🙏
Also, ALDS stands for American League division series, and this is game 5 which in the DS is equivalent to a game 7. ALCS would be the American League championship series, as opposed to NLCS, and the WS is the World Series. The order goes ALWC/NLWC (wild card, best of 3 games), ALDS/NLDS (best of 5 games), NLCS/ALCS (best of 7 games) and WS, (best of 7 games)
One thing not shown here is in the top of the inning, there was a crazy play where the catcher tried to throw the ball back to the pitcher and it hit off the bat of the batter and a run scored. It took the umps 20 minutes to figure out how to rule it, but they allowed the run and that is why Texas is winning 3-2. This was all sort of a revenge inning for the blue jays and especially the fans as they were mad about the call.
Thanks for this Andrew. Shame it didn’t have this. Took the video Blue Jays had on their TH-cam. Hoped they’d have the best version, but that could be the length because it sounds like a very long Top of the inning too. Appreciate the comment 🙏
As a long-time Jays fan, this whole series was absolutely electric and memorable. Everyone in Canada was watching this. It still gives me goosebumps. What a wild wild series!
Loved this inning! That would have been awesome re Canadian coverage. Took the video from the Blue Jays TH-cam, had hoped they’d have the best video. Appreciate the comment 🤝
this was in one of the years i wasnt following playoff baseball very closely as a nats fan, but i remember the bat flip. Yall deserve another ws. brutal division and now my nats are in a similarly brutal division.
@@DNReacts part of the reason why the toronto fans were so upset about the call on russell martin is that after the jays won back to back in 92 and 93, the tv ratings in the states were reported to be the lowest ever, and the next season the montreal expos were the best team in baseball and the jays were also contenders to be in the world series. A canada vs canada world series would have tanked the us tv ratings for sure. The conspiracy theory about screwing canadian teams started there. 94 was the lockout year which ended up cancelling the post season so the potential canada vs canada world series never happened. The expos fell apart as an organization after that and never recovered, moving to washington in the late 90s early 2000s. The jays continued to have good and bad seasons, one year having almost 100 wins but not even making the playoffs because the yankees were better. Over the years the conspiracy theory came and went every time fans needed an excuse for really bad calls made against the jays. Even the tv coverage of the jays in the states is generally dismissive or sometimes disrespectful of the team, not giving credit when the team is clearly good. in 2015 fans were upset that they didn't have the local tv coverage from the canadian networks because TBS the american channel had exclusive rights to broadcast the playoffs. Fans thought this was also a sleight against the jays as the fox coverage of the jays was horrible and very dismissive of achievements or nuances with the team, meanwhile they had books and books of irrelevant tiny details about the rangers. The perception was the coverage was not even. This is probably the single most ridiculous inning of baseball ever. Top and bottom halves. You guys watched the rangers in their previous playoff letdowns. This was probably beltre's last chance at a world series. The guy had an amazing career and never made it. He'll be in the hall of fame at some point, and in the inning you can see it on his face how badly he wanted to win and couldn't believe his eyes when drop after drop happened. He was suffering from a really bad back injury throughout the whole series and came back to play this game and tough it out through the pain only to have his team collapse around him. Texax fans will relish and cherish the punch that happened the next season, but they will fail to mention that they met the jays again in the playoffs and got crushed and swept, not even winning a game. The ultimate revenge against the punch, get beat and beat bad.
The third error was at third base, but the base was being covered by the short stop (Elvis Andrus) who made the first error. Second error was by the first baseman making a bad throw to...your guessed it...Elvis Andrus.
…and the bloop single over the 2nd baseman was a mid-judgement by the 2nd baseman, but was not officially an error as he did not drop a catchable ball. The fact that he misplayed it so badly that it wasn’t catchable is an equally bad defensive play as an error though. Rougned Odor vs. Jose Bautista - “better to be punched in May (Bautista in 2016, by Odor) than knocked out in October (Odor and the Rangers - in both 2015 AND 2016 by the Blue Jays)”.
This bay flip was the early turning point for the way bat flips are viewed in MLB. It was an unwritten rule to show little or no emotion while playing or it will “show up the pitcher”. There was a lot of back and forth and public debate when he did this. Now we are much more tolerant of emotion. Playing with lots of emotion and celebration was introduced to MLB by many of the Latin players who were not “brought up” in that weird American stoic mindset. But also PLEASE GO WATCH THE TOP OF THIS INNING!!! It would have been super long to watch both, but the drama in the top half that you missed makes the bottom half EVEN MORE unbelievable. THEN you gotta go watch the brawl from 2016 between Odor and Bautista. Ripple effects lasting to this day.
At 23:20, Nick says if this place had a roof, it would come off.....The Blue Jays play at the Rogers Center which is a domed stadium originally called the SkyDome.
I was at this game. The big thing not in this video is the top of the 7th inning, where Shin Soo Choo up to bat, held his bat out to adjust his glove, and then the catcher Russell Martin hit the bat when he went to throw the ball back to the pitcher, it bounced off toward third base, and Rougned Odor who was the runner on third ran home to put the Rangers ahead 3-2. There was a lot of confusion because during this play the umpire called the ball dead. However he did so errenously, and the umpires had to determine if the the run scored or not. They decided the run scored, and Jays fans began throwing beer onto the field, and it was a while before they calmed down. The rest of the Rangers half of the inning passed without incident and then you just watched the bottom of the inning. Also Elvis Andrus the Shortstop, is the player with the 2 errors, he bobbled the first groundball hit towards him. He was the player covering 2nd base and I agree the throw from the 1st baseman Mitch Moreland was poor. He was also the player who covered 3rd Base and recieved the throw from the 3rd baseman Adrian Beltre. The confusion about the play at the plate was whether or not they were going to call a double play. If they decided the slide was against the rules, than the penalty for that play is that they assume the double play will be made and they call the batter out at 1st base on top of the runner being out at home. I was there but like the broadcast I also missed the bat flip the first time, I was watching the ball. I don't know if it was where I was sitting under the RF foul pole becasue that's not a great angle for it, or because I just wasn't listening, but it felt like no one reacted, partly in disbelief, but partly because it was so poetic. We thought we got fucked on the play before, and we just came back and dominated.
Secret Base has a great video called "Bill Buckner’s World Series error against the Mets gets a deep rewind | 1986". Sounds like you should give it a watch, it is undoubtedly the most infamous error of all time and one of the most famous moments in American sports.
In my opinion, this IS the craziest inning ever, definitely the craziest in post-season history, and not just because I'm a Jays fan and was watching this game live. What makes it crazy is not just the 3 errors and Bautista's homerun and bat flip, which I had for a long time as my computer background image. It was that the half inning before, the Rangers scored their third run on a play you rarely see. There was a runner on third. Odor if I recall correctly, and Russell Martin the catcher after a pitch and throwing it back to the pitcher, the ball hit the batter's bat and rolled away. Odor scored. Initially, the umpire said it was a dead ball but it wasn't and sent Odor back to third. But after a brief discussion, there was no reason for the ball to be dead and so the run stood. The batter had not interfered, Martin just threw back the ball to the pitcher as he had done a million times. Just this time, the ball hit the bat. Fans were not happy with the decision but it was the correct one. It would have been the craziest way to lose the series on such a play. But the Jays came back as you saw making this seventh inning even crazier.
Important context for this inning is that earlier in the inning the Rangers had scored the go ahead run when the catcher's throw back to the pitcher bounced off the Texas hitter's bat - the umpires allowed the run and the stadium went BERSERK. So, the energy (and tempers) were already sky high going into the back half of the inning where the video starts.
Not just that the tempers were sky high, but Rangers players were (justifiably so) scared of getting beaned by a beer bottle. The Rangers fielders were also ice cold after having to sit through a half hour delay waiting for all the refuse to be cleaned off the field.
Things got so bad in the top half of the inning that Edwin Encarnacion (especially) and other Blue Jays players came out on the field to plead with the crowd to stop throwing bottles and other debris onto the field.
I didn't go to the game because of the prices but I went to city hall in Toronto where they installed a tv projector showing the playoff games and it was called "The Birds Nest". Now, when I tell you how crazy the crowd watching went when Bautista hit that home run after everything that previously happened in that inning I'll never forget it.
I was there for this game, and this inning is generally viewed as the wildest inning ever in baseball. You guys only watched the bottom of the inning though, the reason why the crowd was so hyped, is that in the top of the inning, there was a very strange play that resulted in the Rangers scoring to go up 3-2. The vast majority of the crowd thought that the run shouldn't have counted, and after a 15 minute delay for the umpires to check the rules, the run was allowed. The crowd blew up, was throwing stuff on the field, it was absolute pandemonium, and that was in the top of the same inning you just watched! So the crowd felt like they were just screwed in a game where the loser is done for the year, it's late in the game, it's been a low scoring game, and we thought we were about to lose, and that's how we all felt when you checked in. This was the longest inning ever, and it was in a very important playoff game. Wild stuff.
You guys should've reacted to the full unedited video of this inning as it was even more wild due to the benches clearing twice (after the Jose Bautista HR and after the inning ended). On top of that fans went so nuts that beer bottles, popcorn, and other particles of trash were thrown on the field, which led to police having to take control of the crowd! This was one of the most electrifying innings in MLB history!
That's the reason the Rangers kept making all those errors, they were cold from having to sit through a huge delay from having to have all the beer bottles cleaned off the field, and probably more than a little scared for their safety.
This is a great example of how fun baseball can be to watch, in contrast to the rep it sometimes has for being slow. And as you now know, being educated on the sport helps a LOT.
I'll never forget this inning in my life. I wasn't even watching, I was a delivery driver listening to this on the radio and to hear the drama and emotion swing back and forth for about 45 min trying to comprehend all the batshit happening that I couldn't see was driving me mental. Then that detonation of the crowd when Jose crushed that dinger had me screaming inside my van at the windshield at the top of my lungs. I must have looked insane to drivers within earshot but fuck it, what a moment. Go Jays 😂
The 1986 World Series, bottom of the 10th inning was the most thrilling in World Series history having the famous Bill Buckner error. Also, arguably the most emotionally exciting World Series ever.
Thanks for this, seen a lot of mentions of Buckner in these comments. Definitely feels like a moment we’re going to have to watch. Appreciate the comment 🙏
At this point in the ALDS both the Rangers and Astros were winning their respective series clinching games. The governor of Texas tweeted “Congrats to the @astros on advancing to the ALCS!. Hoping for an all-Texas #ALCS. Looking at you @Rangers.” The Astros blew a 4 run lead to Kansas City giving up 7 runs in the 8th force a game 5 which KC won. And the Rangers blew this lead on the Bautista HR.
How is there a video like this that doesn’t show the top of the inning?!? The top of the inning is what sets the whole stage for the bottom half. It’s the reason there’s so much cathartic emotion from Jose and everyone else in the stadium. It’s the reason Martin/his pinch runner reaching 3 bases on error is so meaningful. What a bust of a video, not your fault of course
Yeah it’s like watching the final 3 mins of an absolutely epic nba finals series with no context of the comeback that happened to get them from down 3-1
I absolutely love Postseason baseball! You get NFL crowds, exciting games… and then football on Sunday’s! 2022 NLCS, Game 5, Padres v Phillies is a MUST watch! It was raining hard and it was such an exciting game!
MLB Postseason: ALWS: American League Wildcard Series ALDS: American League Division Series ALCS: American League Championship Series (AL Pennant Winner) National League: NLWS, NLDS, NLCS (NL Pennant winner) World Series: American League (AL) v National League (NL)
Absolutely the craqziest inning, you only reacted to the bottom. The top of the inning was pretty wild too, and builds up to everything you see in the bottom.
I like that you chose the original, unedited broadcast. This inning does kind of speak for itself and the crowd helps a lot with the building and release of the tension. 4:09 - Nailed it! American League Division Series. Since the introduction of 3 divisions per league and wild card teams in 1995 (and even until now even after some further format tweaks) the DS has been name of the League semifinals series (last 8 overall) and are and have been 5-game series. At this point, it included the Wild Card Game winner and the 3 division winners. This was from 2015 with the Blue Jays representing the AL East and the Rangers the AL West. The Rangers actually lead 2-0 in the series and the Blue Jays had to win 2 in a row to get to this point (that meant that only the road teams had won to this point) and, as you can see, the Blue Jays were trailing in this game as well. 5:20 - Oh it's not just you. The Rangers have been cursed even after they got good around 2010. 11:48 - I disagree slightly with Harold Reynolds here in that it's not a perfectly clean slide but it is hard and well within the rules. The rules around slides to break up double plays were actually made more strict AFTER this 2015 season due to a play in one of the NLDS between the Mets and Dodgers when one of the Dodgers made a real hard and dirty slide to take out the Mets shortstop during a double play attempt. This was not that and was fair game. 13:50 - No, there was no question that the runner was out at home. However, if the umpires determined the slide to be unlawful, they could have called the batter out and made it a double play. 16:33 - He does misjudge it slightly but errors are usually only scored when the player has or should have had it in his glove. 19:35 - I believe it WAS in the loudest crowds compilation. 23:00 - Craziest inning of all time for me is the bottom of the 10th inning of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series between the Mets and Red Sox; watching both the top and bottom of the inning from the original broadcast there as well would make a great reaction (this is also includes the worst individual error based on circumstance of all time; there are reasons it wasn't the most egregious but it was relatively routine and and in a high leverage situation and has become synonymous with committing a bad error). Other candidates include the bottom of 9th Inning of Game 6 of the 2011 World Series that you recently watched the David Freese video about, the 9th and 10th of Game 7 of the 2016 World Series that you also watched a video about, the top of the 8th of Game 4 of the 1996 World Series where the Yankees came back from down 3 in a game that if they lost would have put them down 3 games to 1 and this propelled them to a game and series win.
Great comments. So I did not had to chime in about the slide at home. Men I need to get me a hard copy of the rule book and I definitely need the baseball dicctionary
This has got to be among the biggest chokes in playoff baseball history. Not only were the Rangers up 2-0 in the series (meaning they had to lose 3 in a row to lose the series, which they did), but they also blew it on three straight routine plays. You won't find many games where a team makes three straight errors in an inning, let alone playoff games, let alone playoff clinching games. Completely beat themselves here, it doesn't get much worse as far as nightmare innings in baseball.
I was lucky enough to be there for this game. I didn’t even notice the bat flip until rewatching it. Most of us were too busy tracking the ball as it left the field. Truly an iconic moment
not sure if there's a highlight package out there for it (maybe for the whole series if not the single game) but Game 4 of the 1993 World Series was another wild one. Toronto came from behind 14-9 in the 8th inning to beat Philadelphia 15-14. 3 days later, game 6 ended dramatically in a game that was picked as one of the 20 best games all-time.
See if you can find the 1 hour version of the inning, you don't necessarily need to do another reaction but it's well worth the watch. This one is missing a rare play by Martin, a near riot by the crowd and two bench clearing incidents. I was at this game and it was the craziest thing I've ever experienced.
Andrus (shortstop) committed error #1 by not fielding the ground ball. Moreland (first baseman) committed error #2 with the poor throw to 2nd base. Andrus (shortstop) committed error #3 when he dropped the throw covering 3rd base.
It’s a shame the video did not show the top of the inning. When the ball hit the bat for the go a head run, as a Jays fan I thought that was it. As the Jays are the only Canadian team they carry the eyes of the whole country.
Im not a fan on either team..but, the 7th inning had to be one of the greatest single-inning in MLB playoff history. Never seen anything like it, and you felt the electricity thru the tv, in both moments
I was at work when this inning started, it got so crazy I had it on the radio on the drive home, rushed in to watch after the second error. This was insanity from start to finish, and they did not even cover the beer thrown on the field (twice) after two separate decisions. Encarnacion trying to calm the crowd leads to a bench clearing brawl. The summer game the next year when one of the rangers punks out Bautista on a play at second smacking him in the face. And then the Blue Jays beat them AGAIN the following playoff. Seriously these two teams were the encapsulation of the American League in the mid 2010s (and neither won a world series in that time).
The thing at the play at the plate was of the runner was determined to have committed interference, it was on the catchers intended throw, so there'd be another out. It's why they kept saying they would get a double play if it happened. Two outs rather than just the out at the plate.
You asked about the worst fielding errors. I'm not sure if it's the worst, but I think a lot of people are going to mention Bill Buckner's famous error on first during the 1986 World Series between the Red Sox and the Mets. I'm sure there are tons of videos about it, but Secret Base did a good one called "Bill Buckner's World Series error against the Mets gets a deep rewind."
That was an insane series. I remember the Jays were counted out early after going down to the Rangers. But you gotta feel for Cole Hamels, seeing his fielders make error after error in a game he set them up to win.
I love the pitch clock but I’m somewhat conflicted if I’d want it during the postseason because of the extra suspense of waiting? On the other hand, you had that uneventful (in my opinion), 20 inning marathon in the 2022 ALDS.
I’ve really enjoyed watching you guys learn the game and start to get an appreciation for it - I’ve been a lifelong baseball fan, and I’ll be the first to say that the game can be slow and boring to newcomers, and there’s a huge amount of subtlety involved. It’s really fun to watch you guys learn it and have an appreciation. Keep it up!
Good stuff! Real quick, in Spanish the J is pronounced like the H in Harry. So it’s not Joe-say but Hose-ay. Similar to how you’d pronounce Julian Alvarez’s name as Hoo-lian.
The 1st out at home plate was a force play (no tag needed). The question was did the runners slide interfere with the catchers throw by sliding out of the base line. I believe the Mgr. for Texas knew it was a good play but wanted stall a bit because he was going to change pitchers anyway. Also you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him get the joke! ;-)
When you put a good swing on a ball, and you get all of it, you can definitely feel it. You swing right through the ball, and though you feel the impact of bat on ball, somehow it's like there was nothing there. It feels so good!
So guys for some context, the blue jays hadn’t make the playoffs in 22 years and had an insane run for about 2 months to get there. This is a best of 5 divisional round. In the top of the inning Texas scored because jays catcher Russell Martin had made a throw that hit off the bat off the batter and led to a run scored after a 15 minute delay. So after 22 years you can imagine how that would be to end their szn like that. That’s why the emotions were so high in this inning
it's really hard for me to call the throw from first to second an error becuase of how hard of a throw it became with martin so far down the baseline. martin made that throw _soooo_ much harder to complete by being where he was. good on him, probably the most impactful player in the inning imo. jose wouldn't have even had the chance to make that hit if not for russell.
One thing i wish this video did was give the context of the atmosphere in the building at that point in the game. So much happened in the first 6.5 innings to get the players and fans as fired up as they were at the moment bautista launched that bomb.
- this was indeed the craziest inning of baseball ever, especially when the top of the inning is factored in…the Rangers scored a run when the Blue Jays catcher hit the batters bat on a routine throw back to the pitcher. The entire inning took 53 minutes to play. An entire 9 inning game typically takes 150-180 minutes. I was at a team meeting for work at a hotel bar at the time, and our managers called the restaurant where we were supposed to have dinner to push back our reservation because NO ONE wanted to leave the bar while this inning was being played. - most infamous fielding error of all time was probably the 1986 World Series, game 6, ground ball that went through the first baseman’s legs. The NY Mets won that game to tie the series at 3-3, and then beat the Boston Red Sox in game 7 to win the Series. - on the play at home plate, the out was recorded by force-out (the catcher doesn’t need to tag the runner, they just need to step on home plate with the ball in hand) as the bases were loaded. The issue was whether or not the slide by the runner (which knocked the catcher off his feet) was within the rules. If it had been judged to be illegal, the batter would have been called out due to baserunner’s interference. It was a legal slide as the runner stayed in a direct path to slide into home plate…and did not leave that path to intentionally hit the catcher. Knocking the catcher down prevented him from trying to throw to another base to get a 2nd out
Ya'll need to react to MLB playoff highlights. There a few channels out there that do really good condensed playoff series highlights. They basically take extened highlights of the 3-7 games of a playoff series and manage to keep them all around 20 minutes. In my opinion, almost every single ALCS/NLCS starting from 2016/2017 have been absolutely insane and most are worth watching.
The MLB playoff format goes as follows: Wild Card series (3 games used to be 1), Division Series (ALDS and NLDS) (5 games), Championship Series (ALCS and NLCS) (7 games), and finally the World Series (7 games)
Im Canadian, I’ve never been a baseball guy but me and my whole Hockey team back in the day watched this instead of working out at our gym when this was live. The only time I’ve felt the feeling i felt watching this was when Kawhi hit the buzzer beater in 2019. 2 great moments in Canadian sports history.
Yeah, ALDS is the AL Divisional Series. Winner goes to the Championship Series (ALCS), winner of that faces the winner of the NLCS in the World Series.
To answer your question...I would say this is the wildest and greatest inning in baseball history. If you want the full idea of it all, check out what led up to this. It was crazy...when Texas was up to bat. That's why the dram was so high and over the top. I was around for the two World Series wins in Toronto in the 90's, but I've never seen anything like this. Haha. I heard you mention that you were going to watch the scenario from the following year, when Odor punches Bautista in the face...the one thing everyone talks about is the punch....but I want you to pay attention to how it had little to no effect on slowing Bautista down. He took that punch like a pro fighter and stayed on his feet to keep coming at him. No one ever talks about that. That cat is as tough as nails....
14:17 The runner was out at the plate on a force out since the bases were loaded. That wasn't in dispute. In the old days, people used to be able to run catchers over to try to dislodge the ball, but they changed the rules and added protections so that you couldn't take catchers out anymore. The Rangers were arguing that the slide was illegal and he went out of his way to take out the catcher, which would be considered interference, and would likely result in a double play, because without the slide, the catcher can just throw to first and get a double play. The umpires disagreed and so did the commentators, who believed it was a legal play.
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Guys, not sure if someone explained this earlier, but an error does not count as a base hit, so the grounder that Martin hit to the shortstop would be scored as an error on the shortstop, E6 in the score book. "An error does not count as a hit but still counts as an at bat for the batter unless, in the scorer's judgment, the batter would have reached first base safely …"
13:56 Texas was arguing that Pompey's slide into the catcher was interference and as per the rules, the batter would be out also. But the ruling was basically....."well, he didn't break the rules". The next season they added a rule where that would have been an interference call.
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ALDS is the American League Division Series where the division winners play their playoff games to determine who goes to the ALCS. The ALCS is the American League Championship Series for the American League Championship with the winner going to the World Series against the National League Champs. As you can imagine there is also an NLDS and NLCS. The winners of each league are said to have “won the pennant” (the league flag).
Thanks for this info Christopher, had a feeling it must be American League and had a guess at Divisional Series. Appreciate the confirmation and details 🤝
Baseball today has 4 rounds of playoffs. First is the Wild Card round, then the Division Series (ALDS & NLDS) then the League Championship Series (ALCS & NLCS) finally the World Series. The Division Series is a best of 5, so this game 5 was an elimination game for both teams. 23:23, when he said if there is a roof on this place, I chuckled because there is a roof on that place. It used to be called Skydome.
Thanks for this info, had a feeling it must be American League and had a guess at Divisional Series. Appreciate the confirmation 🤝 Haha I’ll have to let him know about the roof 😅
For the umpire review of the slide, the one out they did get was not in question, but if the review had gone the opposite way, meaning if the runner’s slide was ruled illegal, they’d have been given a second out at first base because in theory the slide prevented the catcher from throwing to first. These rules are still pretty murky and seem to cause controversy all the time. Happened IN TEXAS the last TWO nights in 2023!
The ALDS (American League Division Series) of which this was two of the four teams, is the first round of the playoffs and determines which two American League teams will play for the pennant in the ALCS (American League Championship Series). The winner of this series met the other ALDS winning team in the ALCS series to determine who represents the American League in the World Series. The ALDS are best-of-five series and the ALCS is a best-of-seven series.
This is Canada's team! I was at the game! Unreal how Canadians can celebrate without violence! It was great , I was hugging everybody, my wife too ,I hugged someone's wife as Canadian!
Are you being serious right now? I guess you can celebrate without violence, but heaven forbid a call goes against you guys, even if it's the right one. Were you one of the ones throwing bottles and cans onto the field?
14:13 They were reviewing if the slide was legal, because the catcher was going to turn a double play at 1st, but was interrupted by the slide. If they would’ve ruled it an illegal slide, Texas would’ve been awarded the second out at 1st, making it 2 outs with 2 runners on 2nd and 3rd.
And one more quick thing, someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but if there’s an error on the initial play, the batter isn’t credited for a hit, like in those three errors. But if the error occurs to advance the runner after he the hit, he is. Like, if a guy hits the ball and it should be a single, but then the fielder messes up and he can move to second base, the batter is given a single (because that’s how far he should have gotten if no one messed up) and then there’s an error that allowed him to go to second. And this effects that pitching stat ERA, earned run average. Like in this game, although the Blue Jays got four runs this inning, those weren’t all “earned” in terms of the pitchers getting dinged for it in their stats. They’re “unearned.” Obviously in terms of wins and losses it’s the same. But in terms of pitchers stats. I’m 95% sure I’m correct on all this, but I quit caring about baseball in 2001 when my Yankees got beaten by the diamond backs in the World Series. Was too soft, couldn’t handle the heartbreak haha. Someone correct me if I’m off.
In terms of the craziest inning, it's hard to beat the first game in Detroit Tigers history, opening day in April of 1901. There's obviously no video, but they were losing 13-4 entering the ninth inning, and scored 10 runs to win 14-13 -- still a major league record for biggest 9th-inning comeback.
Love watching you guys reacting to these moments of baseball. As far a greatest bat flips or home runs, it’s amazing to see Yordan’s walk-off homer in last years ALDS against the mariners. And then the one against the Phillies in the last game of the World Series. You’d love those. Keep it up with the baseball vids!!!
I will say it again. I absolutely cannot believe how far you blokes have come in your understanding of baseball. When Damo explained why the bunt was a good idea I nearly fell out of my chair. It was crisp, clean and accurate. Well done guys, well done!! Easily my favorite channel just because of the tremendous effort you both have put in to become extremely competent with your understanding of baseball. I am floored. ♥
We never wanted to just start a channel for the sake of it and use your sports just for views. We are learning as we go and genuinely loving the sports! Your support has been amazing and we are glad to have you on board! You should jump in discord if you can 😊 oh and we hit 20k!!
yep its awesome... and they were right on the money with AL divisional series
@@DNReacts Congrats on 20K. Don't know 2 guys who deserve it more. ♥ You've got something special here guys. ♠
Appreciate it as always!
100% agree, it's quite unbelievable, because us TH-cam folks are used to clueless reactors when it comes to sports. The ones that take their time to understand the intricacies of the sport are rare, the ones that dive this deep ... yeah sorry, they don't exist apart from these guys.
One thing that is forgotten is that the Blue Jays actually trailed the series 2-0 and had to win back-2-back games on the road to even get to a game 5
Then the royals smoked them
Yep. As a Jays fan, that was demoralizing having lost both games at home. But I remember telling my sister, they'll start coming back. I had a feeling.
@@pierrelevasseur2701haha yeah and as a rangers fan it was demoralizing to even lose that series😂 god I was so pissed
Incredible comeback! Appreciate the comment 🤝
@@DNReacts Not just that this was the first time in 22 years the Jays made it to the postseason. People country wide (only MLB team in Canada) were going nuts.
If you want another look up the jays 27-5 blow out of the Red Sox...
The play under review. The runner was out by force from the catcher having his foot on the plate, since there were runners behind its a force out. But he slid into the catcher to prevent the catcher from making a double play throwing to first base. Since the catcher was still on the plate when the slide started, it was a smart play by the runner to take down the catcher preventing a double play. Umps reviewed the play to see if the slide was clean, if not, they could have counted it as a double play.
I did not want to go to the trouble of breaking this down, glad you did.
Ahhh, okay gotcha, this now makes a lot of sense. Just watched that section back too and it’s a lot clearer now. Really appreciate this comment 🙏
It would be a “interference” call on the runner.
But importantly; until pretty recently the runner coming from 3rd to home base was allowed to steamroll the catcher. And they would just tackle the catcher in hopes he would drop the ball. Injuries galore. They changed the rule whenever ago. So they were reviewing to make sure- because if the catcher is trying to make a double play then he is treated as an infielder, not a catcher. You can slide and take out an infielder if you're within reach of the base, in order to prevent them making a double play. You cant take out catchers at home guarding home base.
I think today they would have called that interference, but the rule was a little looser then. Beginning the following season pretty much any contact would be considered interference.
If you're asking about the worst error ever, I think most baseball fans would tell you it's Bill Buckner in the 86 world series. The poor guy got death threats for years after he let the ball go through his legs
As a Sox fan that play was tragic
Definitely. And also arguably the most thrilling World Series.
I've heard arguments that Bill Buckner made the correct decision, but I can't remember how it goes.
He probably still did up until 2004. There is a great curb your enthusiasm episode with him in it where he's still getting heckled. Obviously a show but I'm sure he still hears about it from some people. As if the guy wasn't heartbroken .
Thanks for this, seen a lot of mentions of Buckner in these comments. Definitely feels like a moment we’re going to have to watch. Appreciate the comment 🙏
Also, ALDS stands for American League division series, and this is game 5 which in the DS is equivalent to a game 7. ALCS would be the American League championship series, as opposed to NLCS, and the WS is the World Series. The order goes ALWC/NLWC (wild card, best of 3 games), ALDS/NLDS (best of 5 games), NLCS/ALCS (best of 7 games) and WS, (best of 7 games)
Sounds nice and simple 😂 thanks for explaining!
Also, the LCS winners, have won the "Pennant" which are NL and AL winners respectively.
Currently, the wild card round is best of 3. But this was back in 2015, and at that time the wild card was one-and-done.
One thing not shown here is in the top of the inning, there was a crazy play where the catcher tried to throw the ball back to the pitcher and it hit off the bat of the batter and a run scored. It took the umps 20 minutes to figure out how to rule it, but they allowed the run and that is why Texas is winning 3-2. This was all sort of a revenge inning for the blue jays and especially the fans as they were mad about the call.
It wasn't to figure it out. The umps changed the call pretty quickly. It was to get the fans to stop disrupting the play.
@@nosliwecah yes, I forgot about how wild the blue jays fans could be 😂
@@nosliwec lol I was trying to figure out why ruling that a run would take 20 minutes.
@@jessejordache1869 They ruled it pretty quickly. It took that long to clear all the trash from the field. They were throwing full beers on the field.
Thanks for this Andrew. Shame it didn’t have this. Took the video Blue Jays had on their TH-cam. Hoped they’d have the best version, but that could be the length because it sounds like a very long Top of the inning too. Appreciate the comment 🙏
As a long-time Jays fan, this whole series was absolutely electric and memorable. Everyone in Canada was watching this. It still gives me goosebumps. What a wild wild series!
Would have been better watching the Canadian broadcast :)
Loved this inning! That would have been awesome re Canadian coverage. Took the video from the Blue Jays TH-cam, had hoped they’d have the best video. Appreciate the comment 🤝
This team was simply amazing. This should’ve been our year man, it should’ve been
this was in one of the years i wasnt following playoff baseball very closely as a nats fan, but i remember the bat flip. Yall deserve another ws. brutal division and now my nats are in a similarly brutal division.
@@DNReacts part of the reason why the toronto fans were so upset about the call on russell martin is that after the jays won back to back in 92 and 93, the tv ratings in the states were reported to be the lowest ever, and the next season the montreal expos were the best team in baseball and the jays were also contenders to be in the world series. A canada vs canada world series would have tanked the us tv ratings for sure. The conspiracy theory about screwing canadian teams started there. 94 was the lockout year which ended up cancelling the post season so the potential canada vs canada world series never happened. The expos fell apart as an organization after that and never recovered, moving to washington in the late 90s early 2000s. The jays continued to have good and bad seasons, one year having almost 100 wins but not even making the playoffs because the yankees were better. Over the years the conspiracy theory came and went every time fans needed an excuse for really bad calls made against the jays. Even the tv coverage of the jays in the states is generally dismissive or sometimes disrespectful of the team, not giving credit when the team is clearly good. in 2015 fans were upset that they didn't have the local tv coverage from the canadian networks because TBS the american channel had exclusive rights to broadcast the playoffs. Fans thought this was also a sleight against the jays as the fox coverage of the jays was horrible and very dismissive of achievements or nuances with the team, meanwhile they had books and books of irrelevant tiny details about the rangers. The perception was the coverage was not even.
This is probably the single most ridiculous inning of baseball ever. Top and bottom halves. You guys watched the rangers in their previous playoff letdowns. This was probably beltre's last chance at a world series. The guy had an amazing career and never made it. He'll be in the hall of fame at some point, and in the inning you can see it on his face how badly he wanted to win and couldn't believe his eyes when drop after drop happened. He was suffering from a really bad back injury throughout the whole series and came back to play this game and tough it out through the pain only to have his team collapse around him.
Texax fans will relish and cherish the punch that happened the next season, but they will fail to mention that they met the jays again in the playoffs and got crushed and swept, not even winning a game. The ultimate revenge against the punch, get beat and beat bad.
The third error was at third base, but the base was being covered by the short stop (Elvis Andrus) who made the first error. Second error was by the first baseman making a bad throw to...your guessed it...Elvis Andrus.
…and the bloop single over the 2nd baseman was a mid-judgement by the 2nd baseman, but was not officially an error as he did not drop a catchable ball. The fact that he misplayed it so badly that it wasn’t catchable is an equally bad defensive play as an error though. Rougned Odor vs. Jose Bautista - “better to be punched in May (Bautista in 2016, by Odor) than knocked out in October (Odor and the Rangers - in both 2015 AND 2016 by the Blue Jays)”.
After 150 years of MLB, all kinds of weird stuff has happened. It's the situational moment that makes them epic.
You'll never see the end of possible different shit that can happen in baseball. It's a huge reason why it's the greatest game on earth imo.
Definitely! Thanks for the comment 🤝
@@DNReactsTo clarify, a ball that bounces off a fielder and over the fence without hitting the ground is a home run.
This bay flip was the early turning point for the way bat flips are viewed in MLB. It was an unwritten rule to show little or no emotion while playing or it will “show up the pitcher”. There was a lot of back and forth and public debate when he did this. Now we are much more tolerant of emotion. Playing with lots of emotion and celebration was introduced to MLB by many of the Latin players who were not “brought up” in that weird American stoic mindset.
But also PLEASE GO WATCH THE TOP OF THIS INNING!!! It would have been super long to watch both, but the drama in the top half that you missed makes the bottom half EVEN MORE unbelievable.
THEN you gotta go watch the brawl from 2016 between Odor and Bautista. Ripple effects lasting to this day.
At 23:20, Nick says if this place had a roof, it would come off.....The Blue Jays play at the Rogers Center which is a domed stadium originally called the SkyDome.
I was at this game. The big thing not in this video is the top of the 7th inning, where Shin Soo Choo up to bat, held his bat out to adjust his glove, and then the catcher Russell Martin hit the bat when he went to throw the ball back to the pitcher, it bounced off toward third base, and Rougned Odor who was the runner on third ran home to put the Rangers ahead 3-2. There was a lot of confusion because during this play the umpire called the ball dead. However he did so errenously, and the umpires had to determine if the the run scored or not. They decided the run scored, and Jays fans began throwing beer onto the field, and it was a while before they calmed down. The rest of the Rangers half of the inning passed without incident and then you just watched the bottom of the inning.
Also Elvis Andrus the Shortstop, is the player with the 2 errors, he bobbled the first groundball hit towards him. He was the player covering 2nd base and I agree the throw from the 1st baseman Mitch Moreland was poor. He was also the player who covered 3rd Base and recieved the throw from the 3rd baseman Adrian Beltre.
The confusion about the play at the plate was whether or not they were going to call a double play. If they decided the slide was against the rules, than the penalty for that play is that they assume the double play will be made and they call the batter out at 1st base on top of the runner being out at home.
I was there but like the broadcast I also missed the bat flip the first time, I was watching the ball. I don't know if it was where I was sitting under the RF foul pole becasue that's not a great angle for it, or because I just wasn't listening, but it felt like no one reacted, partly in disbelief, but partly because it was so poetic. We thought we got fucked on the play before, and we just came back and dominated.
That Blue Jays crowd that game was amazing. They were loud the entire inning. Love Canadian baseball fans.
Definitely the best at throwing beer cans on the field.
Atmosphere was incredible, really enjoyable!
Canada needs another baseball team. Bring back the Expos!!
Yeah I would not call the fans "amazing" in that game. Complete trash comes to mind though.
it was was amazing !
Secret Base has a great video called "Bill Buckner’s World Series error against the Mets gets a deep rewind | 1986". Sounds like you should give it a watch, it is undoubtedly the most infamous error of all time and one of the most famous moments in American sports.
In my opinion, this IS the craziest inning ever, definitely the craziest in post-season history, and not just because I'm a Jays fan and was watching this game live.
What makes it crazy is not just the 3 errors and Bautista's homerun and bat flip, which I had for a long time as my computer background image. It was that the half inning before, the Rangers scored their third run on a play you rarely see. There was a runner on third. Odor if I recall correctly, and Russell Martin the catcher after a pitch and throwing it back to the pitcher, the ball hit the batter's bat and rolled away. Odor scored. Initially, the umpire said it was a dead ball but it wasn't and sent Odor back to third. But after a brief discussion, there was no reason for the ball to be dead and so the run stood. The batter had not interfered, Martin just threw back the ball to the pitcher as he had done a million times. Just this time, the ball hit the bat. Fans were not happy with the decision but it was the correct one. It would have been the craziest way to lose the series on such a play. But the Jays came back as you saw making this seventh inning even crazier.
Important context for this inning is that earlier in the inning the Rangers had scored the go ahead run when the catcher's throw back to the pitcher bounced off the Texas hitter's bat - the umpires allowed the run and the stadium went BERSERK. So, the energy (and tempers) were already sky high going into the back half of the inning where the video starts.
Not just that the tempers were sky high, but Rangers players were (justifiably so) scared of getting beaned by a beer bottle. The Rangers fielders were also ice cold after having to sit through a half hour delay waiting for all the refuse to be cleaned off the field.
Things got so bad in the top half of the inning that Edwin Encarnacion (especially) and other Blue Jays players came out on the field to plead with the crowd to stop throwing bottles and other debris onto the field.
I didn't go to the game because of the prices but I went to city hall in Toronto where they installed a tv projector showing the playoff games and it was called "The Birds Nest". Now, when I tell you how crazy the crowd watching went when Bautista hit that home run after everything that previously happened in that inning I'll never forget it.
I was there for this game, and this inning is generally viewed as the wildest inning ever in baseball. You guys only watched the bottom of the inning though, the reason why the crowd was so hyped, is that in the top of the inning, there was a very strange play that resulted in the Rangers scoring to go up 3-2. The vast majority of the crowd thought that the run shouldn't have counted, and after a 15 minute delay for the umpires to check the rules, the run was allowed. The crowd blew up, was throwing stuff on the field, it was absolute pandemonium, and that was in the top of the same inning you just watched! So the crowd felt like they were just screwed in a game where the loser is done for the year, it's late in the game, it's been a low scoring game, and we thought we were about to lose, and that's how we all felt when you checked in. This was the longest inning ever, and it was in a very important playoff game. Wild stuff.
I love the way the camera shakes in Toronto when the crowd gets into it
You guys should've reacted to the full unedited video of this inning as it was even more wild due to the benches clearing twice (after the Jose Bautista HR and after the inning ended). On top of that fans went so nuts that beer bottles, popcorn, and other particles of trash were thrown on the field, which led to police having to take control of the crowd! This was one of the most electrifying innings in MLB history!
That's the reason the Rangers kept making all those errors, they were cold from having to sit through a huge delay from having to have all the beer bottles cleaned off the field, and probably more than a little scared for their safety.
@@RonPowertell me you’re a rangers fan without telling me you’re a rangers fan
They probably didn't want the video to be an hour long lol
As if the jays didn’t have to sit through the same delay of game😂
Yes you should definitely review the top of the inning
This is a great example of how fun baseball can be to watch, in contrast to the rep it sometimes has for being slow. And as you now know, being educated on the sport helps a LOT.
I'll never forget this inning in my life. I wasn't even watching, I was a delivery driver listening to this on the radio and to hear the drama and emotion swing back and forth for about 45 min trying to comprehend all the batshit happening that I couldn't see was driving me mental. Then that detonation of the crowd when Jose crushed that dinger had me screaming inside my van at the windshield at the top of my lungs. I must have looked insane to drivers within earshot but fuck it, what a moment. Go Jays 😂
The 1986 World Series, bottom of the 10th inning was the most thrilling in World Series history having the famous Bill Buckner error. Also, arguably the most emotionally exciting World Series ever.
Thanks for this, seen a lot of mentions of Buckner in these comments. Definitely feels like a moment we’re going to have to watch. Appreciate the comment 🙏
I wish they showed the top of the inning cause that was what made it so nuts
At this point in the ALDS both the Rangers and Astros were winning their respective series clinching games. The governor of Texas tweeted “Congrats to the @astros on advancing to the ALCS!. Hoping for an all-Texas #ALCS. Looking at you @Rangers.”
The Astros blew a 4 run lead to Kansas City giving up 7 runs in the 8th force a game 5 which KC won. And the Rangers blew this lead on the Bautista HR.
THE 1-1 FROM DYSON
BAUTISTA WITH A DRIVE
DEEP LEFT FIELD NO DOUBT ABOUT IT
*BLARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGH*
Not even a Jays fan but this is ingrained in my brain
How is there a video like this that doesn’t show the top of the inning?!? The top of the inning is what sets the whole stage for the bottom half. It’s the reason there’s so much cathartic emotion from Jose and everyone else in the stadium. It’s the reason Martin/his pinch runner reaching 3 bases on error is so meaningful. What a bust of a video, not your fault of course
Exactly!!!!
Yeah it’s like watching the final 3 mins of an absolutely epic nba finals series with no context of the comeback that happened to get them from down 3-1
The irony of that last error, the play was fielded by and throw made by one of the best defensive third basemen of all time.
I absolutely love Postseason baseball! You get NFL crowds, exciting games… and then football on Sunday’s!
2022 NLCS, Game 5, Padres v Phillies is a MUST watch! It was raining hard and it was such an exciting game!
MLB Postseason:
ALWS: American League Wildcard Series
ALDS: American League Division Series
ALCS: American League Championship Series (AL Pennant Winner)
National League: NLWS, NLDS, NLCS (NL Pennant winner)
World Series:
American League (AL) v National League (NL)
Absolutely the craqziest inning, you only reacted to the bottom. The top of the inning was pretty wild too, and builds up to everything you see in the bottom.
I like that you chose the original, unedited broadcast. This inning does kind of speak for itself and the crowd helps a lot with the building and release of the tension.
4:09 - Nailed it! American League Division Series. Since the introduction of 3 divisions per league and wild card teams in 1995 (and even until now even after some further format tweaks) the DS has been name of the League semifinals series (last 8 overall) and are and have been 5-game series. At this point, it included the Wild Card Game winner and the 3 division winners. This was from 2015 with the Blue Jays representing the AL East and the Rangers the AL West. The Rangers actually lead 2-0 in the series and the Blue Jays had to win 2 in a row to get to this point (that meant that only the road teams had won to this point) and, as you can see, the Blue Jays were trailing in this game as well.
5:20 - Oh it's not just you. The Rangers have been cursed even after they got good around 2010.
11:48 - I disagree slightly with Harold Reynolds here in that it's not a perfectly clean slide but it is hard and well within the rules. The rules around slides to break up double plays were actually made more strict AFTER this 2015 season due to a play in one of the NLDS between the Mets and Dodgers when one of the Dodgers made a real hard and dirty slide to take out the Mets shortstop during a double play attempt. This was not that and was fair game.
13:50 - No, there was no question that the runner was out at home. However, if the umpires determined the slide to be unlawful, they could have called the batter out and made it a double play.
16:33 - He does misjudge it slightly but errors are usually only scored when the player has or should have had it in his glove.
19:35 - I believe it WAS in the loudest crowds compilation.
23:00 - Craziest inning of all time for me is the bottom of the 10th inning of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series between the Mets and Red Sox; watching both the top and bottom of the inning from the original broadcast there as well would make a great reaction (this is also includes the worst individual error based on circumstance of all time; there are reasons it wasn't the most egregious but it was relatively routine and and in a high leverage situation and has become synonymous with committing a bad error). Other candidates include the bottom of 9th Inning of Game 6 of the 2011 World Series that you recently watched the David Freese video about, the 9th and 10th of Game 7 of the 2016 World Series that you also watched a video about, the top of the 8th of Game 4 of the 1996 World Series where the Yankees came back from down 3 in a game that if they lost would have put them down 3 games to 1 and this propelled them to a game and series win.
Great comments. So I did not had to chime in about the slide at home. Men I need to get me a hard copy of the rule book and I definitely need the baseball dicctionary
This has got to be among the biggest chokes in playoff baseball history. Not only were the Rangers up 2-0 in the series (meaning they had to lose 3 in a row to lose the series, which they did), but they also blew it on three straight routine plays. You won't find many games where a team makes three straight errors in an inning, let alone playoff games, let alone playoff clinching games. Completely beat themselves here, it doesn't get much worse as far as nightmare innings in baseball.
best baseball moment of my life. i watch it quite often when i need some joy
I still get goosebumps watching this
I was lucky enough to be there for this game. I didn’t even notice the bat flip until rewatching it. Most of us were too busy tracking the ball as it left the field. Truly an iconic moment
not sure if there's a highlight package out there for it (maybe for the whole series if not the single game) but Game 4 of the 1993 World Series was another wild one. Toronto came from behind 14-9 in the 8th inning to beat Philadelphia 15-14. 3 days later, game 6 ended dramatically in a game that was picked as one of the 20 best games all-time.
Toronto Blue Jays was at one time a dynasty back in early 90's Toronto won the World series in 92-1993 seasons
See if you can find the 1 hour version of the inning, you don't necessarily need to do another reaction but it's well worth the watch. This one is missing a rare play by Martin, a near riot by the crowd and two bench clearing incidents. I was at this game and it was the craziest thing I've ever experienced.
This is quickly becoming my favourite reaction channel. Well done boys, love from 🇨🇦
This is great, love this, thanks for your support Adam, we really appreciate it 🤝
Andrus (shortstop) committed error #1 by not fielding the ground ball. Moreland (first baseman) committed error #2 with the poor throw to 2nd base. Andrus (shortstop) committed error #3 when he dropped the throw covering 3rd base.
You guys have really started to understand it pretty quickly and it makes me smile. Keep up the journey.
I've been watching sports for over 40 years, and I've never heard a crowd make the noise that this one did when Bautista connected.
It sounds like a jet engine on takeoff. Absolutely nuts.
It’s a shame the video did not show the top of the inning. When the ball hit the bat for the go a head run, as a Jays fan I thought that was it. As the Jays are the only Canadian team they carry the eyes of the whole country.
What you are missing here is the top of the 7th inning, when the rangers were giving the go ahead run by a very strange play .
Im not a fan on either team..but, the 7th inning had to be one of the greatest single-inning in MLB playoff history. Never seen anything like it, and you felt the electricity thru the tv, in both moments
I was at work when this inning started, it got so crazy I had it on the radio on the drive home, rushed in to watch after the second error. This was insanity from start to finish, and they did not even cover the beer thrown on the field (twice) after two separate decisions. Encarnacion trying to calm the crowd leads to a bench clearing brawl. The summer game the next year when one of the rangers punks out Bautista on a play at second smacking him in the face. And then the Blue Jays beat them AGAIN the following playoff.
Seriously these two teams were the encapsulation of the American League in the mid 2010s (and neither won a world series in that time).
The thing at the play at the plate was of the runner was determined to have committed interference, it was on the catchers intended throw, so there'd be another out. It's why they kept saying they would get a double play if it happened. Two outs rather than just the out at the plate.
You fellas are becoming true Baseball Guys, love to see it ⚾️
Thank you 🙏
You asked about the worst fielding errors. I'm not sure if it's the worst, but I think a lot of people are going to mention Bill Buckner's famous error on first during the 1986 World Series between the Red Sox and the Mets. I'm sure there are tons of videos about it, but Secret Base did a good one called "Bill Buckner's World Series error against the Mets gets a deep rewind."
I was in the building, the Rangers were rattled by the crowd. Look at how the camera shakes, show me another modern video even close to the same.
That was an insane series. I remember the Jays were counted out early after going down to the Rangers. But you gotta feel for Cole Hamels, seeing his fielders make error after error in a game he set them up to win.
You guys figuring out what ALDS stood for without any help was super impressive. Keep up the awesome work.
I'm so used to the new clock rules that it's pretty noticeable how 'slow' the play was here in comparison; still a cool inning to watch though!
I love the pitch clock but I’m somewhat conflicted if I’d want it during the postseason because of the extra suspense of waiting? On the other hand, you had that uneventful (in my opinion), 20 inning marathon in the 2022 ALDS.
I’ve really enjoyed watching you guys learn the game and start to get an appreciation for it - I’ve been a lifelong baseball fan, and I’ll be the first to say that the game can be slow and boring to newcomers, and there’s a huge amount of subtlety involved. It’s really fun to watch you guys learn it and have an appreciation. Keep it up!
So cool to see you guys watch this inning - it’s one of the best examples of how a baseball game can change on a dime almost instantly.
You have to watch the top of the 7th inning which was absolute chaos in order to appreciate the bottom of the 7th and the bat flip
Good stuff! Real quick, in Spanish the J is pronounced like the H in Harry. So it’s not Joe-say but Hose-ay. Similar to how you’d pronounce Julian Alvarez’s name as Hoo-lian.
The 1st out at home plate was a force play (no tag needed). The question was did the runners slide interfere with the catchers throw by sliding out of the base line. I believe the Mgr. for Texas knew it was a good play but wanted stall a bit because he was going to change pitchers anyway. Also you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him get the joke! ;-)
The craziest inning MAY be when Fernando Tatis Sr. hit TWO grand slams in the SAME inning haha. Absolutely wild.
When you put a good swing on a ball, and you get all of it, you can definitely feel it. You swing right through the ball, and though you feel the impact of bat on ball, somehow it's like there was nothing there. It feels so good!
So guys for some context, the blue jays hadn’t make the playoffs in 22 years and had an insane run for about 2 months to get there. This is a best of 5 divisional round. In the top of the inning Texas scored because jays catcher Russell Martin had made a throw that hit off the bat off the batter and led to a run scored after a 15 minute delay. So after 22 years you can imagine how that would be to end their szn like that. That’s why the emotions were so high in this inning
it's really hard for me to call the throw from first to second an error becuase of how hard of a throw it became with martin so far down the baseline. martin made that throw _soooo_ much harder to complete by being where he was. good on him, probably the most impactful player in the inning imo. jose wouldn't have even had the chance to make that hit if not for russell.
One thing i wish this video did was give the context of the atmosphere in the building at that point in the game. So much happened in the first 6.5 innings to get the players and fans as fired up as they were at the moment bautista launched that bomb.
- this was indeed the craziest inning of baseball ever, especially when the top of the inning is factored in…the Rangers scored a run when the Blue Jays catcher hit the batters bat on a routine throw back to the pitcher. The entire inning took 53 minutes to play. An entire 9 inning game typically takes 150-180 minutes. I was at a team meeting for work at a hotel bar at the time, and our managers called the restaurant where we were supposed to have dinner to push back our reservation because NO ONE wanted to leave the bar while this inning was being played.
- most infamous fielding error of all time was probably the 1986 World Series, game 6, ground ball that went through the first baseman’s legs. The NY Mets won that game to tie the series at 3-3, and then beat the Boston Red Sox in game 7 to win the Series.
- on the play at home plate, the out was recorded by force-out (the catcher doesn’t need to tag the runner, they just need to step on home plate with the ball in hand) as the bases were loaded. The issue was whether or not the slide by the runner (which knocked the catcher off his feet) was within the rules. If it had been judged to be illegal, the batter would have been called out due to baserunner’s interference. It was a legal slide as the runner stayed in a direct path to slide into home plate…and did not leave that path to intentionally hit the catcher. Knocking the catcher down prevented him from trying to throw to another base to get a 2nd out
Ya'll need to react to MLB playoff highlights. There a few channels out there that do really good condensed playoff series highlights. They basically take extened highlights of the 3-7 games of a playoff series and manage to keep them all around 20 minutes. In my opinion, almost every single ALCS/NLCS starting from 2016/2017 have been absolutely insane and most are worth watching.
Came from the Mexico/USA video. Y’all are an absolute joy to watch. Thanks for the laughs, boys. Consider America a second home
The MLB playoff format goes as follows:
Wild Card series (3 games used to be 1), Division Series (ALDS and NLDS) (5 games), Championship Series (ALCS and NLCS) (7 games), and finally the World Series (7 games)
Im Canadian, I’ve never been a baseball guy but me and my whole Hockey team back in the day watched this instead of working out at our gym when this was live. The only time I’ve felt the feeling i felt watching this was when Kawhi hit the buzzer beater in 2019. 2 great moments in Canadian sports history.
Yeah, ALDS is the AL Divisional Series. Winner goes to the Championship Series (ALCS), winner of that faces the winner of the NLCS in the World Series.
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I was young watching this. The best sports moment I've ever seen
To answer your question...I would say this is the wildest and greatest inning in baseball history. If you want the full idea of it all, check out what led up to this. It was crazy...when Texas was up to bat. That's why the dram was so high and over the top. I was around for the two World Series wins in Toronto in the 90's, but I've never seen anything like this. Haha. I heard you mention that you were going to watch the scenario from the following year, when Odor punches Bautista in the face...the one thing everyone talks about is the punch....but I want you to pay attention to how it had little to no effect on slowing Bautista down. He took that punch like a pro fighter and stayed on his feet to keep coming at him. No one ever talks about that. That cat is as tough as nails....
1986 World Series, Game 6, 9th inning.
Thank you for pointing that out!
Been waiting for this reaction!
I have this 7th inning clip saved to my favorites, I've watched so many times! I love your reactions!
This is so awesome, love this 🔥
Baseball is a game of suspense and tension, we will never have another inner like this with the new rules and pitch clocks
14:17 The runner was out at the plate on a force out since the bases were loaded. That wasn't in dispute. In the old days, people used to be able to run catchers over to try to dislodge the ball, but they changed the rules and added protections so that you couldn't take catchers out anymore. The Rangers were arguing that the slide was illegal and he went out of his way to take out the catcher, which would be considered interference, and would likely result in a double play, because without the slide, the catcher can just throw to first and get a double play. The umpires disagreed and so did the commentators, who believed it was a legal play.
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Get well soon! You’re very welcome!
@DNReacts YOU GUYS DEFINITELY MADE MY WEEK WITH THIS REPLY AND ALL THESE VIDS I GET TO WATCH THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MY FAVORITE CONTENT ON YT
Guys, not sure if someone explained this earlier, but an error does not count as a base hit, so the grounder that Martin hit to the shortstop would be scored as an error on the shortstop, E6 in the score book. "An error does not count as a hit but still counts as an at bat for the batter unless, in the scorer's judgment, the batter would have reached first base safely …"
I was at this game, it was absolutely electric even walking through the streets of Toronto 30 minutes after we left the stadium.
Father Damo understands baseball like a real yank
Also, there’s no way that Hoover-Dyson joke was on purpose. But it worked out.
High fives all around boys!
You have to do the punch game between these two teams the following season.
13:56 Texas was arguing that Pompey's slide into the catcher was interference and as per the rules, the batter would be out also. But the ruling was basically....."well, he didn't break the rules". The next season they added a rule where that would have been an interference call.
The craziest comeback ever, August 5, 2001 Seattle mariners @ Cleveland Indians, tied an MLB record for biggest comeback.
Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life. Played from little league through highschool still enjoy playing now. Really like your guys's channel good quality stuff.
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If you want to see an insane game, not just inning, it's the highlights of the Astros vs Dodgers World Series game 5. Absolutely mental.
You guys are pretty smart. You are understanding baseball for the most part.
Brings back memories, i was at that game. It was insane.
ALDS is the American League Division Series where the division winners play their playoff games to determine who goes to the ALCS.
The ALCS is the American League Championship Series for the American League Championship with the winner going to the World Series against the National League Champs. As you can imagine there is also an NLDS and NLCS. The winners of each league are said to have “won the pennant” (the league flag).
Thanks for this info Christopher, had a feeling it must be American League and had a guess at Divisional Series. Appreciate the confirmation and details 🤝
Baseball today has 4 rounds of playoffs. First is the Wild Card round, then the Division Series (ALDS & NLDS) then the League Championship Series (ALCS & NLCS) finally the World Series. The Division Series is a best of 5, so this game 5 was an elimination game for both teams.
23:23, when he said if there is a roof on this place, I chuckled because there is a roof on that place. It used to be called Skydome.
Thanks for this info, had a feeling it must be American League and had a guess at Divisional Series. Appreciate the confirmation 🤝 Haha I’ll have to let him know about the roof 😅
He was out at home, but Texas was saying he hooked his leg on the slide at home with the catcher, preventing him for completing a double play at 1st.
I’m so impressed they were able to deduce what ALDS stands for that quickly
For the umpire review of the slide, the one out they did get was not in question, but if the review had gone the opposite way, meaning if the runner’s slide was ruled illegal, they’d have been given a second out at first base because in theory the slide prevented the catcher from throwing to first. These rules are still pretty murky and seem to cause controversy all the time. Happened IN TEXAS the last TWO nights in 2023!
The ALDS (American League Division Series) of which this was two of the four teams, is the first round of the playoffs and determines which two American League teams will play for the pennant in the ALCS (American League Championship Series). The winner of this series met the other ALDS winning team in the ALCS series to determine who represents the American League in the World Series.
The ALDS are best-of-five series and the ALCS is a best-of-seven series.
This is Canada's team! I was at the game! Unreal how Canadians can celebrate without violence! It was great , I was hugging everybody, my wife too ,I hugged someone's wife as Canadian!
Are you being serious right now? I guess you can celebrate without violence, but heaven forbid a call goes against you guys, even if it's the right one. Were you one of the ones throwing bottles and cans onto the field?
It’s not just the sound but the feel. In a home run you barely feel the ball make contact.
Are you guys going to the Cardinals vs Cubs games in London? Would be awesome to see a video of you guys vlogging at the game.
We are going to tomorrows game and doing a Vlog!
@@DNReactsSounds good, cant wait to watch it. 😄👍
14:13 They were reviewing if the slide was legal, because the catcher was going to turn a double play at 1st, but was interrupted by the slide. If they would’ve ruled it an illegal slide, Texas would’ve been awarded the second out at 1st, making it 2 outs with 2 runners on 2nd and 3rd.
And one more quick thing, someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but if there’s an error on the initial play, the batter isn’t credited for a hit, like in those three errors. But if the error occurs to advance the runner after he the hit, he is. Like, if a guy hits the ball and it should be a single, but then the fielder messes up and he can move to second base, the batter is given a single (because that’s how far he should have gotten if no one messed up) and then there’s an error that allowed him to go to second.
And this effects that pitching stat ERA, earned run average. Like in this game, although the Blue Jays got four runs this inning, those weren’t all “earned” in terms of the pitchers getting dinged for it in their stats. They’re “unearned.” Obviously in terms of wins and losses it’s the same. But in terms of pitchers stats.
I’m 95% sure I’m correct on all this, but I quit caring about baseball in 2001 when my Yankees got beaten by the diamond backs in the World Series. Was too soft, couldn’t handle the heartbreak haha. Someone correct me if I’m off.
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In terms of the craziest inning, it's hard to beat the first game in Detroit Tigers history, opening day in April of 1901. There's obviously no video, but they were losing 13-4 entering the ninth inning, and scored 10 runs to win 14-13 -- still a major league record for biggest 9th-inning comeback.
Love watching you guys reacting to these moments of baseball. As far a greatest bat flips or home runs, it’s amazing to see Yordan’s walk-off homer in last years ALDS against the mariners. And then the one against the Phillies in the last game of the World Series. You’d love those. Keep it up with the baseball vids!!!