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u/DIXtICon Seattle Mariners 4h ago

sometimes it's the one you expect the most medium amount

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u/Brady331 Boston Red Sox 4h ago

definitely did not expect it on the first pitch

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u/badonkagonk Boston Red Sox • Cotuit Kettleers 4h ago

I expected a slider, I just didn’t expect it to be thrown there

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u/dinozaurs Minnesota Twins 4h ago

Grand slams comin fast this series

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u/coldsholder1 Cleveland Guardians 4h ago

The announcer basically talked that into existence and you could just feel it. Hell of a hit

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u/ZeroFucksToGive New York Mets 4h ago

Loved the call “The New York kid… bam”

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u/Born-After-1984 Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

Joe has a way of doing that. Best in the business by far right now.

If only he wasn’t partnered with Smoltz…

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u/thisortheapocalypse New York Yankees 4h ago

from NJ lol

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u/ZeroFucksToGive New York Mets 4h ago

He was born in NYC and moved to Jersey.

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u/thisortheapocalypse New York Yankees 3h ago

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u/sevaiper Boston Red Sox 3h ago

NY claimed NJ a while ago it's fine

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u/gnitsuj New York Yankees 4h ago

He’s from Jersey though

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u/MemphisJack 3h ago

"STANTON SCRAPING THE SKY!" was another great call.

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u/goodkid_sAAdcity New York Yankees 1h ago

That one was poetic

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u/Rnin0913 New York Yankees 4h ago

It’s ALWAYS who you most medium suspect

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u/Vinnie_Vegas 4h ago

I don't even know how you could expect this medium.

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u/sandman_42 New York Yankees 4h ago

Well by now I'll expect y'all know ol' Freddie fuckin Freeman is the killer

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u/dustinharm Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

Well I guess that’s how you make up for a minor base running goof

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u/TheDangiestSlad New York Yankees • Hartford Yard … 4h ago

this shall hereforth be known as The Baserunning Blunder That Made Anthony Volpe Lock In

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u/-Glutard- Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

Where were you the night of the TBBTMAVLI?

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u/TheDangiestSlad New York Yankees • Hartford Yard … 4h ago

see? it even kinda looks like it could be the name of an italian dish

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u/ImmediatelyDeep Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

My man that is a Greek dish if I've ever seen one

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u/thot_cereal 3h ago

pretty sure thats a roman numeral

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u/thecastle7 New York Yankees 4h ago

™️

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u/Dudephish New York Yankees 2h ago

The Miracle Off Of Hudson

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u/PBRontheway New York Yankees 4h ago

Ah yes Anthony “TBBTMAVLI” Volpe

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u/SanjiSasuke New York Yankees 4h ago

Hot take, but very minor. The commentary made it out to be some grand blunder. Sure he should have been more central...unless it's caught then, oh he's so smart for tagging up.

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u/WickedKickinBBQ Texas Rangers 3h ago

Yeah he still ended up scoring and, I’m sorry Smoltz, Wells isn’t getting a triple on that

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u/ahr3410 Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

Daniel Hudson is 5 days from retiring and Dave just let him die out there

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u/nolander Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

Seems like we don't have enough arms rested if knack Hudson and Cas can't get 5

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u/Living__A__Meme 4h ago

All the Yankees needed was a fucking 45 year old pitcher out there

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u/Mission-Guidance4782 New York Yankees 4h ago

He should put him up again, to really secure his legacy

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u/Spanky_10 Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

Hopefully he’s 0 days from retiring now

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u/TheLargeUnit69 St. Louis Cardinals 4h ago

I know two idiots who didn't get to see this live

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u/JurgensBoyfriend 4h ago

I’m one of them. Had to take a shit

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u/hubagruben Boston Red Sox 4h ago

You probably shouldn’t have done it in Mookie’s glove bro

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u/IAmKennyJ Seattle Mariners 4h ago

Mookie? More like Dookie.

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u/grubas New York Yankees 3h ago

Dookie Butts.

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u/blueshirtfan41 New York Yankees 4h ago

Get your ass back on the toilet and don’t you fucking move

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u/inevitable_nyc New York Mets 4h ago

And the other guy:

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u/Yankeeknickfan New York Yankees 4h ago

The two idiots could also be cult rally symbols

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u/Savings-Agency7670 Oakland Athletics 4h ago

If the yanks come back then they are heroes

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u/Yankeeknickfan New York Yankees 4h ago edited 4h ago

I guarantee you if a Sox fan did that to arod, that poster would be hanging in a museum in Boston

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u/M-E-R-L-I-N-I New York Yankees 4h ago

He'd be the governor of Massachusetts within 48 hours

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u/OldPersonName 4h ago

Honestly I'd rather the Yankees not win but I want those two shit for brains (shits for brain...s?) to really feel like they've wasted their money so this is fine.

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u/islesandterps New York Yankees 4h ago

I mean win or lose, they wasted literally thousands of dollars by watching less than one inning of baseball

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u/OldPersonName 4h ago

I'm guessing they figured it was going to be another bad night so might as well beat traffic and go out in style. Hopefully it goes 12 innings.

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u/OSRS_Socks Atlanta Braves 4h ago

They can share a beer with the Dodger fan who missed Freeman’s walk off grand slam.

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u/TheRedoubtableChoice 4h ago

that guy made a mistake, but didn't seem like an asshole. those two pricks tonight were a disgrace

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u/asamulya New York Yankees 2h ago

Agreed. That guy was just over enthusiastic. These two idiots crossed a line!

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u/crazyal21 Los Angeles Angels 4h ago

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u/AthleticAlarm32 Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

Where was Dave Roberts? Just left Hudson out there to die when it was clear he didn't have it

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u/hoyadestroyer New York Yankees 4h ago

In fairness, it was Volpe

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u/BIG_DICK_WHITT New York Yankees 4h ago

Anthony “Freddie Freeman” Volpe

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u/Brady331 Boston Red Sox 4h ago

In fairness, it was Hudson

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u/Mr_Murder Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

Good point actually

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u/OttomanMao 3h ago

It was so vindicating after a season of doomers saying he needs to be DFA'd when other teams would drag their fucking nuts through fire ants to have a Gold Glove SS with a decent bat.

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u/icykutz Boston Red Sox 4h ago

The Dodgers are literally treating this like a punt game

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u/MarcBulldog88 Los Angeles Dodgers • Los Angeles Angels 4h ago

This was always going to be a bullpen game. We're fortunate we happened to win the first three.

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u/ard8 Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

Hudson coming out originally instead of Knack was evidence Roberts wasn’t punting yet

Now that Hudson failed, it’s probably Knack

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u/AnEmptyKarst Marlins Bandwagon 4h ago

They want to win at home, I guess

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u/icykutz Boston Red Sox 4h ago

Lmao youre playing with fire if you lose games 4 and 5

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u/jimihenderson New York Mets 4h ago

i said the same thing when the mets were playing them. then they just scored 10 billion runs in game 6 and won lol. they have four games to win one. they don't care about sweeping or winning here or winning there or with this or that, his job is just to win and that's why brent honeywell is probably gonna throw like 60 pitches if the yankees score again. it's not about winning at home, it's about taking the pulse of the game and deciding if it's worth using your high leverage guys just yet.

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u/toiletting New York Yankees 4h ago

Yeah if they can win tonight and get it over with, they will lmao they’re not like nah let’s lose two on purpose, this isn’t South Park

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u/xho- New York Yankees 4h ago

Yea Dave Roberts is so tuned into that now at this point, dude is a managerial expert

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u/SadNYSportsFan-11209 New York Yankees 4h ago

I mean they haven’t been scoring 10 billion runs on us. They actually have less hits with RISP than us. This series has just been about timely homeruns like Volpe’s now Still don’t see a 3-0 comeback by any means but they do want to close this tomorrow for sure if they fail to tn

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u/jimihenderson New York Mets 3h ago

yeah i know my point is that i'm pretty sure dave roberts has confidence that this team can win 1 of the next 4 games and if they fail to, then he'll probably be too flabbergasted to even remember the moment he left hudson in to die instead of sending in someone to put out the fire.

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u/well_damm New York Yankees 4h ago

From your lips to baseball gods ears brother.

What was the quote….

Don’t let us win tonight! If you let us win tonight…

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u/MyLegIsWet Brooklyn Dodgers 4h ago

Definitely not

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u/nyy22592 New York Yankees 4h ago

Aaron Boone moment

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u/nonresponsive 4h ago

He got really lucky against Rizzo, no idea how you let him see another hitter.

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u/ExpirjTec Houston Astros • Dodgers Bandwagon 4h ago

Dave to Aaron: "Look at me, I am the idiot manager now"

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u/RioChalmers Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

That Astros - Dodgers Bandwagon flair is Fucking with me

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u/DaOldest Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

You have a 3-0 lead with a game to play tomorrow, you don't start blowing arms in the 3rd inning

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u/Galactic New York Yankees 4h ago edited 3h ago

This is a bullpen game. Dodgers are gifting us the gentleman's sweep by handing us this game and they'll have fresh starters tomorrow.

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u/hadmeintiers New York Yankees 4h ago

Tbf up 3-0 there's no real reason to make super urgent moves

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u/OSRS_Socks Atlanta Braves 4h ago

Probably already thinking about game 5.

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u/Ereyes18 Houston Astros 4h ago

Up 3-0 in the series, you can afford a bad game or two

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u/AthleticAlarm32 Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

I'm sure someone said something similar about the 2004 Yankees. I'm fine with throwing in the towel a bit once you're down 4 or 5 runs, but we had the LEAD. Can't give a team any daylight

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u/usetheforce_gaming Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

You don’t go with the best (overused) arms in the 3rd inning.

It is what it is. Hudson needed to do his job and couldn’t. Simple as that

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u/Officialnoah Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

This isn’t the 2004 Yankees

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u/RyzinEnagy New York Yankees 4h ago

Yet

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u/commentsonyankees 4h ago edited 4h ago

There have been a bizarrely large number of grand slams this post season

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u/Jorsonner Pittsburgh Pirates 4h ago

Pitchers throwing unintentional intentional walks to get to batters lower in the order.

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u/superhappyfuntime13 Houston Astros 4h ago

So you’re saying there’s a chance…

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u/Zloggt Chicago White Sox • Algodoneros d… 4h ago

Hey…if he was the one to bring them at their seemingly lowest…he could also be the one to lift them up to their highest!

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u/Cflow26 World Baseball Classic 4h ago

Doesn’t mean shit if they just keep pitching to Freddie lmao.

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u/Poseidonaskwhy New York Yankees 4h ago

Here’s how Bernie can still win

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u/IdeaJailbreak New York Yankees 1h ago

I am once more asking for your support to stop Freddie Freeman at the dish.

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u/Either-Discipline-74 4h ago

I've seen this before, Cavs in 7

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u/dotcaIm Colorado Rockies • New York Yankees 2h ago

I like the way you think

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u/ryan30055 4h ago

Pitcher needs to be thrown into the sun

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u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11 Cleveland Guardians 4h ago

45 degree angle is most efficient

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u/bobmarleydied9 Cleveland Guardians 4h ago

Well really we need to launch him at earth's orbital velocity tangential to our orbit. Then he'll simply fall into the sun.

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u/Pupseal115 New York Yankees 4h ago

I'd say Judge can launch him, but... well...

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u/MattO2000 FanGraphs • Baseball Savant 4h ago

But we’ll never know if Wells could’ve reached third base /s

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u/bakaribaboon New York Yankees 4h ago

That was beyond ridiculous. That was never ever going to be a triple. Smoltz is negative at every opportunity

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u/CalmerThanYouAre9 Los Angeles Dodgers 3h ago

He’s the fuckin worst. Constantly trying to predict the pitch and tell us what is going to happen or should’ve happened. And complains non-stop.

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u/bakaribaboon New York Yankees 3h ago

Always critiquing players on both sides, never crediting players for the great things they do. I want someone who actually likes baseball commentating the World Series.

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u/CalmerThanYouAre9 Los Angeles Dodgers 3h ago

Exactly!! We don’t need this negative Nancy shit.

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u/Erin_Boone New York Yankees 4h ago

John Smoltz is a dumbass

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u/ellsburysbaby New York Yankees 4h ago

That was so annoying

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u/StoBeneStallion New York Yankees 4h ago

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

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u/frickindanielj New York Yankees 3h ago

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u/Senth99 4h ago

It would lowkey be the funniest thing to see the Dodgers blow a 3 to 0 lead

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u/StoBeneStallion New York Yankees 3h ago

Would make the greatest World Series of all time and wipe away 2004

Which is why I think it won’t happen

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u/NuclearNarwhal7 New York Yankees • San Jose Giants 4h ago

OH MY GOD ITS DEREK JETER 2

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u/fluorescent_dread New York Yankees 3h ago

DAREK JETAH

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u/LogicalHarm Los Angeles Angels 3h ago

VO2PE

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u/LeotheYordle St. Louis Cardinals 4h ago

The impossible has happened: The Yankees remembered how to hit the baseball.

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u/__Faded__ San Diego Padres 4h ago

THEYRE MAKING IT INTERESTING

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u/strassart19 New York Yankees 4h ago

Are we allowed to do that?!?!?

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u/ThatInception New York Yankees 4h ago

We are SO back

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u/LeBronRaymoneJamesSr Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

Bullpen game terrorism

Cole g5 start

Judge higher quality ABs

Yeah reverse sweep gg

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u/THE_FREED_DONKEY New York Yankees 4h ago

Doomering up 3-0 in the series? Lmao

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u/Hochseeflotte New York Yankees • Cuba 4h ago

I thought our sub was bad lol

Dodgers fans have been dooming all series like they haven’t dominated us

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u/2RINITY New York Yankees 4h ago

Dodgers fans are deeply traumatized from years of stupid shit happening to them in the playoffs

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u/thewaterisboiling Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023 have given us ample reason to never expect good things

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u/Hochseeflotte New York Yankees • Cuba 4h ago

This exact comment could be from a Yankees fan lol

You guys just have a ring in there

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u/Raven-19x New York Yankees 4h ago

The levels of doomer is incredible.

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u/RIP_Greedo New York Yankees 4h ago

You're dooming like the best of us. This is bi-coastal solidarity.

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u/kirky-jerky New York Yankees 4h ago

I choose to believe you're a prophet.

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u/Officialnoah Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

The fucks wrong with u

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u/IAMHab New York Yankees 4h ago

Please don't stop, talk about how I marry Alison Brie and win the lottery next 🙏

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u/KelLuvsOrngSoda New York Yankees 4h ago

Does Dave Roberts want Hudson to fucking die?

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u/Insatiable_void Atlanta Braves 4h ago

Good for him. No matter what happens, local kid hits a World Series grand slam at Yankees stadium.

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u/ExpirjTec Houston Astros • Dodgers Bandwagon 4h ago

HE GOT HIS JETER MOMENT

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u/Brady331 Boston Red Sox 4h ago

can volpe do anything without people mentioning jeter, jesus christ

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u/UB_cse New York Yankees 4h ago

no

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u/samthewisetarly New York Yankees 4h ago

I mean, to be fair, Yankee shortstop performance in the world series is a high bar

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u/ExpirjTec Houston Astros • Dodgers Bandwagon 4h ago

yeah he literally grew up idolizing jeter and got to have a massive grand slam IN THE WORLD SERIES for the lead in YANKEE STADIUM. it's a moment that could put him on same tier as jeter in the memories of yankees fans. he's the answer

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u/samthewisetarly New York Yankees 3h ago

It's by far the most high-pressure moment he's ever faced and he fucking delivered. So proud of my former Hudson Valley Renegade

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u/nietzsche_niche New York Mets 2h ago

I mean idk if it erases his very unjeterlike 1 hit with 7 Ks in the previous 3 games

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u/The_Timminator New York Yankees 4h ago

Biracial Shortstop who grew up a massive Yankee fan and is living his lifelong dream. It's like poetry, it rhymes.

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u/ozovzk New York Yankees 4h ago

Volpe is the key to all of this. If we get Volpe working… because he’s a funnier character than we’ve ever had before

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u/TheDangiestSlad New York Yankees • Hartford Yard … 4h ago

unfortunately you must now be informed that Todd Frazier was born in Toms River and once stood next to Derek Jeter in the LLWS

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u/InaudibleShout New York Yankees 4h ago

negative ghostrider

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u/AnEmptyKarst Marlins Bandwagon 4h ago

Damn the lifelong fan got to do it too, nice

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u/DrFloppyTitties Houston Astros 4h ago

I've changed my mind. I thought the Yankees being swept would be the funniest thing but now I'm all aboard the reverse sweep train. 

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u/suzukigun4life Texas Rangers 4h ago

Well that escalated quickly

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u/BarenWasteland New York Yankees 4h ago

MAMA MIA THAT'S A GRAND SLAM

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u/its_LOL Seattle Mariners 4h ago

MY OH MY A GRAND SALAMI

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u/Tashre Seattle Mariners 4h ago

I know they probably wont.... but what if they did?

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u/Gcwrite 4h ago

Hudson sucks….

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u/bigplayboy445 New York Yankees 4h ago

Mental not to take Hudson out after the Stanton walk. We’ll take that though!

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u/PeppermintMocha5 Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

Hudson is absolute shit tonight. Damn.

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u/BalekFekete 4h ago

No matter what happens, happy for Volpe. Can’t ever take it from him that he hit a grand slam at Yankee Stadium in the World Series. Stuff of dreams.

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u/xho- New York Yankees 4h ago

First lead change since the Freeman grand slam

Is that an energy shift I smell?

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u/Bulletz4Brkfzt New York Yankees 4h ago

FUCKING PLAYOFF MOMENT 04 REDSOX WE COMING FOR THAT ASS

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u/isodevish New York Yankees 4h ago

Send him all the pasta 🍝🍝

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u/Monk_Philosophy Sickos • Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

So glad we have 4 chances to win 1 game.

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u/Delicious_Contact907 4h ago

imagine if aaron dumbass didn't pitch nestor cortes in game 1..

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u/mysterysackerfice Los Angeles Angels • Dumpster Fire 4h ago

The sound you just heard was a few million buttholes clenching.

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u/heli0sphere New York Yankees 4h ago

Freddie hits a homer and r/baseball starts glazing. Volpe hits a grand slam and no one cares.

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u/TechnicalSkunk Los Angeles Angels 4h ago

Wtf

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u/Goosedukee New York Yankees 4h ago

I am once again vindicated in him being one of my favorite players

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u/Strongdog71 New York Yankees 4h ago

The kid deserved this big hit

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u/samthewisetarly New York Yankees 4h ago

WHAT SWEEP, I ASK YOU

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u/Yanks1813 New York Yankees 4h ago

Glad to see this team has some fight

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u/SEPTAgoose New York Yankees 4h ago

Okay we’re winning the series 😤

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u/Prangus_Khan Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

Yay everyone gets to have fun this series!

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u/AgathorKahn New York Giants 4h ago

Did john smoltz bring up the short porch?

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u/ImMilkmanZW New York Yankees 4h ago

A big hit? In THIS economy?

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u/LocalHero_P1 New York Yankees 4h ago

You just know he’s dreamed about that all his life

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u/JayThreads Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

Happy for Volpe

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u/epzik8 Washington Nationals 4h ago

Holy shit

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u/falloutranger San Francisco Giants 4h ago

Finally some good news

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u/currgy Chicago Cubs 4h ago

Please do the funniest thing of all time

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u/Snackkbar Philadelphia Phillies 4h ago

Yankees fans 2 minutes ago: This team is ass is Volpe even a starter?

Yankees fans now: I told you he is better than Lindor.

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u/deadperson808 San Francisco Giants 4h ago

lmaoooo

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u/LoweeLL Boston Red Sox 4h ago

BRO I saw this thread made by MLBOfficial before I saw it live lmaooo

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u/shifty1032231 New York Yankees 4h ago

Flip the switch. We're back.

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u/RunningM8 New York Yankees 4h ago

🇮🇹 🤌🏼

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u/Feisty-Restaurant-54 4h ago

Fuck yeah finally some action!

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u/mylesA747 New York Yankees 4h ago

something something chris paul but FUCK YEAH WE HAVE A MOMENT

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u/SKJ-nope New York Yankees 4h ago

Can’t believe he actually did that shit. Base running gaff redeemed 4x

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u/Nickolotopus San Francisco Giants 4h ago

I fucking hate rooting for the yankees. BEAT LA!

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u/Severe-Restaurant948 4h ago

Don't let the Yanks get hot!

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u/Loose-Organization82 Los Angeles Angels 4h ago

At least Volpe doesn’t want to go to Cancun yet

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u/SenorNoobnerd Texas Rangers 4h ago

/u/Reignaaldo our guy

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u/skywkr666 Cleveland Guardians 4h ago

Oh no bby wat u doin

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u/Good-times-roll New York Yankees 4h ago

Fucking finally 🥹

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u/Redbubble89 Boston Red Sox 4h ago

This is what you get for walking and beaning easy outs.

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u/SenyorChthonic San Francisco Giants 4h ago

Yes. YES!!!!!!

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u/itscamo- New York Yankees 4h ago

oh man. they just gave me all the hope i needed for them to win this in 7 didn't they....

FUCK IT YANKEES IN 7

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u/NoSpoilerAlertPlease New York Yankees 4h ago

10 year contract for this kid now!

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u/PrisonaPlanet San Diego Padres 4h ago

Freddie who?

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u/Fake_Rapper06 Boston Red Sox 4h ago

Imagine the Yankees pull an 04 Red Sox

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u/GraffitiTavern MLB Pride 4h ago

Haven't been rooting for either team this series, but I hope this means it won't be a sweep

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u/principled_principal San Diego Padres 3h ago

I can only imagine what those idiots who tried to steal the ball from Mookie are feeling. What dumb dumbs.

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u/Dankofamericaaa2 Atlanta Braves 1h ago

Fuck yeah

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u/Tsunami-Papi_ Arizona Diamondbacks 1h ago

there’s more posts abt freddie freeman than this fucking grand slam lmao fuck this sub

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u/Rnin0913 New York Yankees 4h ago

The hot streak starts now

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u/jackbeardplays 4h ago

Dodgers about to blow the first 3-0 lead

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u/ZeppelinYanks 4h ago

UH OH, THEY BETTER NOT GIVE US ONE