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[FULL AB] Jackson Chourio vs. Mason Miller
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u/ParticularGoal3221 5h ago
That "take" on the slider...what an at bat.
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u/R0binSage Milwaukee Brewers • Beloit Sky Carp 5h ago
There was a huge chance that was a fastball middle middle. Game over.
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u/JKBraden Los Angeles Dodgers 5h ago
Yeah, he looked so overmatched up to then. What a moment.
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u/ThomPinecone Milwaukee Brewers 4h ago
The moment he caught a piece of 104 and sniffed the fucking bat he knew he was in control
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u/The_Boredom_Line Milwaukee Brewers 4h ago
Immediately made me think of how Ted Williams would ask players if they smelled burnt wood after fouling off pitches.
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u/PhilShabano 2h ago
Yep, he forced the slider. When Miller couldn't make it tempting enough, he knew the heater was coming and didn't miss it.
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u/0pyrophosphate0 Milwaukee Brewers 3h ago
I want his season batting stats after sniffing the bat. Does anybody track that?
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u/EggCouncilCreep Toronto Blue Jays 1h ago
This is baseball. You know someone out there tracks that.
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u/underwear11 New York Yankees 4h ago
I thought he was kissing the bat for catching a piece
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u/Igettheshow89 3h ago
He was mad he missed
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u/JohnTheSecondComing Kansas City Royals 2h ago
I honestly think he realized he had set himself up. I might be taking crazy pills here. But if you swing at low and away paint, the next pitch should’ve been fastball, he was set up for slider to chase even further. He was taking all the way. Idk I pitched once in high school lol.
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u/Bidens_infinite_cash 54m ago
Yeah you could see it in his face and his walk. He knew he had seen enough to lace the next fastball he saw
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u/GamerJosh21 Boston Red Sox • White Sox Bandwagon 3h ago
At least he wasn't licking it like Yasiel Puig...
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u/1sinfutureking Milwaukee Brewers 14m ago
I’ve been watching him all season; that was him being angry that he missed the pitch. He’s 22 and he thought “damn it I had that 104 mph heater”
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u/johnnysmashiii Los Angeles Dodgers 34m ago
I was losing my mind at this moment - 104 and you think you missed it?? Mentality monster
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u/ProcessTruster Major League Baseball 1h ago
It was a big day for sniffing. Mason Miller was huffin' a bottle in the bullpen.
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u/jdelane1 Atlanta Braves 3h ago
If you showed that slider to a hitter from 30 years ago he'd think it wasn't real
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u/PhilShabano 2h ago
Yep, if that slider is three inches higher, no way he could have taken it. That was the at bat.
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u/Pupienus Chicago Cubs 1h ago
Between the take on this slider and the take Harper had on Suarez' changeup in the NLCS in 22 (also against the Padres lol), I think managers should embrace the mid-AB pitching change more often. If a hitter takes a pitch that good, it feels like it never ends well for the pitcher.
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u/see_mohn regretful mets fan 5h ago
Command tends to go when a pitcher is running out of gas and trying to get that last out, but even so Chourio fighting off 104 on the corner, laying off a slider, and then squaring up 101 for a hit up the middle is unbelievable.
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u/Dinoswarleaf Milwaukee Brewers 4h ago
Chourio was pissed he didn't time up 104 like bruh ☠️
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u/Rocinante24 Toronto Blue Jays 3h ago
He was right on it too. Perfect timing. I'm surprised miller went fastball away again after that.
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u/Lets_Reset_This_ San Diego Padres 2h ago
I thought it looked like he was kissing his bat and thanking it for getting a piece off the end.
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u/Rocinante24 Toronto Blue Jays 1h ago
I thought he was kissing it like 'we had it'.
That swing was perfectly on time, if he squared it up, it would've been a single over 2b.
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u/NeedMoarCowbell 4h ago
Taking a 12-6 slider just inches below the zone when you have 2 strikes facing a guy throwing 102-104 is just… I cannot explain how fucking unbelievable that is.
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u/SeveralEconomics3814 New York Yankees 5h ago
What a moment. Wow. How can you not love baseball?
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u/Kamshred1010 San Diego Padres 5h ago
I didn’t love baseball in that moment… 🤷🏼♂️
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u/TerrenceJesus8 Toledo Mud Hens • Detroit Tigers 4h ago
The losing moments are just as memorable as the winning moments imo. You take the bad with the good
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u/underwear11 New York Yankees 4h ago
You can only appreciate the good moments because of the bad ones.
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u/DrunkPackersFan Milwaukee Brewers 4h ago
We’ve had so many heartbreaks that I appreciate moments like these so much
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u/SirParsifal Mankato MoonDogs • Cincinnati Reds 43m ago
That's somewhat easier to say for a Yankees fan than for a Padres fan.
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u/TheNegativePhoenix Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago
I dunno man, I can't watch world series against Dodgers, not a single clip or game rewatch. I can't.
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u/TerrenceJesus8 Toledo Mud Hens • Detroit Tigers 3h ago
Sure, and it's not like I watch highlights of the Ortiz Grand Slam every weekend either. But it's the climb ya know? Makes you feel something even if it is despair
How do you not be romantic about baseball?
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u/CeaselessYeast Baltimore Orioles 3h ago
it helps if the team you support has won a world series in your living memory, i'd imagine
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u/TerrenceJesus8 Toledo Mud Hens • Detroit Tigers 3h ago
Sure, but it's not like the Tigers have won the World Series in my specific living memory, and the Tigers have had quite a few devestating loses and blew the largest lead in MLB history last year. I still will argue the losses are part of the gig
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u/Jazzlike_Athlete8796 Toronto Blue Jays 3h ago
I won't watch it either (nor anything to do with game 7 of the 2004 Stanley Cup Final), but I would much rather lose in game 7 of the greatest World Series ever played than be watching it on TV in Cancun.
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u/ForensicPathology 2h ago
Just game 7? I find that I can't even enjoy the earlier good moments of a series if it ended like that. (I can enjoy the previous series that got the team there though)
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u/NatureTrailToHell3D Seattle Mariners 1h ago
Wait, you don’t only have to take the bad? I could have also had good all this time?
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u/TerrenceJesus8 Toledo Mud Hens • Detroit Tigers 1h ago
You're not gonna get much sympathy from me man after that ALDS G5 last year lol
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u/NatureTrailToHell3D Seattle Mariners 1h ago
We have zero World Series wins is more what I’m talking about.
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u/ImNotGandalf Milwaukee Brewers 4h ago
Don't worry, your roof on Tuesday has your bac- wait... They don't have one?
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u/buttplugpeddler Milwaukee Brewers 5h ago
Holy shit.
Yankees fans are noticing us 🥰
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u/maxpowerphd 4h ago
There’s just nothing better in sports to me than the roar of a home playoff baseball crowd in moments like this.
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u/realfakejames Los Angeles Dodgers 5h ago
I thought it was over when he went down 1-2, Wainwright was right to be impressed by him taking that slider to make it 2-2 because a lot of guys would've been looking to swing over the top of it trying to stay alive
Great hitting by Chourio
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u/Infinite_Response113 Boston Red Sox 4h ago
The foul off the 104mph with already two strikes is the real MVP
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u/RaphInChi85 Milwaukee Brewers 4h ago
I’d say taking the following slider was probably even more difficult. As a batter, I’d just be sitting on the fastball. All time great take.
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u/noconsequences_1 4h ago
Yeah that take blew me away. Made me think he might’ve known it was coming. Incredibly impressive if he didn’t
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u/Dashin-through-dough 3h ago
I assume he was only hunting fastball and would take strike three looking on the slider
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u/Clever-Innuendo Boston Red Sox 3h ago
I let out an audible “WOW” on that one. I didn’t need to see the mph to know that ball came in hot as hell.
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u/PattyIceNY New York Yankees 4h ago
Crazy how fast he must have been swinging. If you pause the ball as it's halfway home, he still has barely moved, and then he gets the bat around in like a millisecond.
Also love the "foul off a fastball and smell the bat for smoke" move
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u/kiwileaff Milwaukee Brewers 4h ago
The lightning quick hands and swing was a big selling point for him as a prospect. Saw him hit a homer in high A as an 18 y/o and immediately knew he was legit big leaguer.
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u/Whatsdota Milwaukee Brewers 1h ago
Jesus Made has similarly quick hands right? Man as good as the Brewers look, the future might be even brighter
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u/kiwileaff Milwaukee Brewers 1h ago
Yeah. His plate disciple is his real calling card. Dude looked like Joey Votto when I saw him
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u/Whatsdota Milwaukee Brewers 1h ago
Man… if he lives up to the hype the amount of young talent on the Brewers will be overwhelming
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u/the_comatorium San Diego Padres 5h ago
This Brewers team has some magic. If they knock us off I'm pulling for them.
Still...pain.
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u/buttplugpeddler Milwaukee Brewers 4h ago
We've had so many years being on the other end of these.
Thanks for being cool about it.
I know it hurts
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u/improbablywronghere San Francisco Giants 3h ago
I’m pulling for the dads but no hate for the brewers at all, and we all hate the dodgers. Whoever our champion is, the entire league will be behind you. FTD
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u/Weak_Bunch3358 Milwaukee Brewers 5h ago
Top _ at bat in Brewers history?
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u/st_nick1219 Milwaukee Brewers 4h ago
Braun grand slam in 2008, T-Plush in 2011, this one. T-Plush was a more important AB because it won a series, but this was spectacular.
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u/morrison0880 Milwaukee Brewers 4h ago
Just going to put this out there. Warning, it is loud!
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u/georgecm12 2h ago
Man, I really miss when the Brewers still had Dean Rosko playing the organ during games. :(
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u/TelltaleHead Milwaukee Brewers 2h ago
This is the most impressive. The T plush is more important but this was insanely impressive
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u/dingleberri609 Detroit Tigers 4h ago
AJ pierzynski is a babbling fool
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u/WIbigdog Milwaukee Brewers • Wisconsin T… 40m ago
Which one is he, the one that said "I'm telling you he's setting him up"? Like no shit dude, first time watching a pitcher work? Do you think Chourio is stupid and doesn't also know what's happening? The play-by-play guy is pretty good and I don't mind Wainwright I suppose but this AJ guy is just eugh.
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u/Confident_Range3376 New York Yankees 5h ago
As a 22-year old, Jackson Chourio showed poise in this moment way beyond his years. What an incredible AB and moment.
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u/VT_Racer 4h ago
2-2 count, 2 outs, 2 rbi single by the 22 year old to win game 2.
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u/caifaisai Philadelphia Phillies 4h ago
To go to 2-0 in the series. Another 2. Are there more 2's??
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u/DrSeafood Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago
The current year is 2022 + 2x2
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u/bolshevik_rattlehead San Francisco Giants 5h ago
Sorry to Christopher Nolan, but The Odyssey has just been dethroned from the number one spot of greatest cinematic achievement of the year
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u/TheChessLobster Milwaukee Brewers 5h ago
Chourio is so clutch. He loves the big moment. What a fucking AB.
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u/pretender80 Major League Baseball 5h ago
Miller looked like he had his stuff. No excuses. Just a really good at bat
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u/Bruce_Louis 4h ago
That slider was an all time take. As a pitcher you feel Churrios sitting on that fastball, had the timing down. Given from the commentators on how well Churrios been hitting the slider, youd naturally want to slide that slider into the dirt, get Churrios out in front and antsy about smashing a fastball. But no, he spit on it. All time take and I think you just have to tip your cap there to the hitter.
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u/whats_a_rimjob Chicago White Sox 2h ago
You could tell from Millers body language that he couldn't believe he didn't swing. All time take.
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u/kickrocks16 Colorado Rockies 4h ago
Mason Miller looks like a gigantic 10 year old.
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u/ArthurMorgansInhaler Milwaukee Brewers 4h ago
Him and Miz playing for some 18U team might feel believable until they start throwing 105
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u/bicyclemom New York Mets 4h ago
You really wondered if Chourio can catch up at all with that fastball after he misses the first pitch swinging about two weeks after it arrives in the catcher's mitt.
Then he fouls off that 104mph pitch and you wonder if he's got it now....
What an at bat. This was wonderful to watch.
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u/RaphInChi85 Milwaukee Brewers 4h ago
I keep rewinding this to where the little boy crosses his fingers and puts them in his mouth
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u/therealobs95 Milwaukee Brewers 4h ago
Krakens bat before was also a beauty. Honestly, every AB was clutch from the Brewers. Love this team.
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u/ppinkerton_ 4h ago
That was so awesome, I wonder what it feels like to be a Brewers fan 🤩
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u/buttplugpeddler Milwaukee Brewers 4h ago
I can't even put it to words.
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u/ppinkerton_ 4h ago
I’m a dbacks fan so every time I’d see your guys wins go up I’d be like “god it must feel so good to be a winner” lol I hope you guys win the World Series 🤩 I wanna see the dodgers lose 🙏
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u/buttplugpeddler Milwaukee Brewers 4h ago
I don't want to see the dodgers at all.
Thanks for the kind words! I have no beef with the sneks
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u/ScaredOfWindow 2h ago
Especially, and I know a lot of folks probably don’t straddle both sports, but in the wake Giannis leaving, to have Chourio and Miz emerging as true superstars must be amazing.
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u/ForensicPathology 2h ago edited 2h ago
I know there's a phrase ultimate grand slam if you're down three, but is there a generic term for a walk off where you turn a loss into a win with two outs? They're so amazing.
Something like "sudden death walk off"
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u/Whatsdota Milwaukee Brewers 1h ago
I saw a comment in another thread. The Brewers faced 28 pitches from Miller in the 9th, and they didn’t swing at a single one out of the zone. Insane plate discipline
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u/Deadmaker831 4h ago
It is wild to me that San Diego did not foresee that they might ask Miller to go two innings in the playoffs and prepare him for that during the season.
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u/ELITE_JordanLove 4h ago
Guarantee if they did that people would be pissed that they don’t save his arm lmao
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u/cardmanimgur 2h ago
Right away there were people worried that the pitch clock would ruin these postseason moments because the drama wouldn't have as much time to build. This proves that completely wrong. Absolute cinema.
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u/Ollie_ollie_drummer Philadelphia Phillies • Los Angeles Qu… 4h ago
I also love the two people scoring the game.
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u/whiskybean 3h ago
I would love to stand in for a 104mph fastball once. I would shit myself, and good chance I would faint. But once.
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u/Ricemobile Washington Nationals 2h ago
This was like Mike Trout vs Ohtani level of excitement holy moly. I fucking love baseball. I’ll fight anyone who says it’s a boring sport because my heart rate was well above 100 for sure
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u/TheTempest77 Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago
Hell of a throw from CF. If that tag was clean it had a chance of getting him
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u/Ok-Grade1476 Milwaukee Brewers 2h ago
Tag wasn’t clean because Sal had an amazing jump and catcher knew he had to rush to have a chance.
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u/energytaker Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago
Watch in half speed and see how close the fielder almost gets to it
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u/SeedyRedwood Cleveland Guardians 3h ago
I thought losing 3-0 with anemic offense on Saturday was bad. Your all world closer absolute fart slamming a must win game. That was brutal.
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u/lecheesesammich New York Yankees 2h ago
Easier said than done of course but the risk of a 3-run HR from the Kraken would've digested more easily than this. I'm rooting for the Padres but who would be the best against LA? It's hard to say but Brewers feel real good.
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u/Dry_Piece2276 Philadelphia Phillies 5h ago
I was rooting for the Padres but this is still incredible
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u/Intelligent_Top_328 4h ago
Is there a reason why he can't go 2 innings? His arm can't be that bad.
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u/Whatsdota Milwaukee Brewers 2h ago
Best on best with the game on the line. This is peak sports right here
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u/twayroforme New York Mets 1h ago
Man, that crowd exploded. I didn't even realize just how quiet they were until hearing just how loud they were once he got the hit.
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u/lph1235 New York Yankees 5h ago
POST THE GARY AB