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[TDiddyLive]

I'm not a baseball guy, enjoyed watching this WS though, but is there some sort of controversy or something about a broken bat? Or is it just a metaphor for the Blue Jay's season blowing up in the end?

Not a baseball guy, myself, but watched and thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing (WS). I do know that broken bats are super common, so no controversy.

Exactly. Shohei also broke his bat in the 11th inning. It just happens sometimes.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I'm not a baseball guy, enjoyed watching this WS though, but is there some sort of controversy or something about a broken bat? Or is it just a metaphor for the Blue Jay's season blowing up in the end?

No controversy. It happens. Was just an unlucky symbolic way of losing where nobody wanted to touch it.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

>be Isiah Kiner-Falefa
>only good at running
>brought into Game 7 bottom of the 9th to pinch run on third
>batter makes contact, actually have chance to be World Series winning run
>feet-first slide into home base on a force play (???)
>get out by literally 0.1 seconds
>lose World Series

What screwed up the scoring wasnt the slide. Coach told him to stay close to the bag (the runner said so when asked after the game by reporters), so his lead off third base was gimped. Made no sense since the batter doesn't hit opposite field much and the third baseman wasnt even close to him. So a catch and rush tag to double him off is going to be rare if impossible. His third base lead off probably could had been an extra 5 ft.

What probably happened is in game 6 the Jays guy got doubled off to end the game, so the coaches told lead runners to hold tight in game 7 so it doesnt happen two games in a row.

 

[GateofD]

I don't do baseball cards, but I do pick up random lower end shohei cards when I see them

 

[HoodWinked]

This one flew under the radar how great of a defensive play this was. Yamamoto anticipated the bunt ran off the mound before it even makes contact and threw it without hesitation. That was a near flawless bunt, probably safe 99% of the time.

 

[Major Insano]

I'm glad the Tokyo Dodgers could make Canada feel just a bit of what we felt at Pearl Harbor.

I watched maybe half of the World Series this year overall, which is probably more baseball for a season than I've gotten in over two decades. Hell, I'm a lapsed Cubs fan and I only tuned in for the last few innings of their clinching game however many years ago that was. Games were amazing but I'm not feeling any of the rule changes aside from maybe the pitch clock which I'm sure still exists but I guess they stopped making a thing of it by actually showing it now that the pitchers are used to it and not fucking it up?

Also, not sure why the Dodgers' Japanese Zero Pilots... err Aces are allowed to bring a shrunken version of Dave Matthews to the mound.



With the way the dude lost contact with home briefly while catching I think it was way under 0.1s. I guess I don't know how slow their slow mo was but it was tiiiight. At least dive for it if you're worried about not running through it in stride (?)

Laces out, he was safe imo