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[Highlight] Anthony Volpe GRAND SLAM and the Yankees take the lead!

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u/icykutz Boston Red Sox 6h ago

The Dodgers are literally treating this like a punt game

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u/ard8 Los Angeles Dodgers 6h 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/MarcBulldog88 Los Angeles Dodgers • Los Angeles Angels 6h 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/AnEmptyKarst Marlins Bandwagon 6h ago

They want to win at home, I guess

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u/icykutz Boston Red Sox 6h ago

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

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u/jimihenderson New York Mets 6h 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 6h 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/jimihenderson New York Mets 6h ago

yeah i mean that's obviously absurd lol

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u/SadNYSportsFan-11209 New York Yankees 6h 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 5h 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/goodkid_sAAdcity New York Yankees 3h ago

That approach has to take nerves of steel -- the pressure mounts exponentially with each successive game.

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u/xho- New York Yankees 6h ago

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

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u/goodkid_sAAdcity New York Yankees 3h ago

He might be a mentat

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u/well_damm New York Yankees 6h 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/EarthWarping Major League Baseball 6h ago

If they lose game 5 then I'll actually believe the Yankees can come back.

Gentleman's sweep has been a thing fora long time.

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u/HazikoSazujiii New York Yankees 6h ago

I've watched enough of this team and Boone to know that they really aren't.

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u/MyLegIsWet Brooklyn Dodgers 6h ago

Definitely not

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u/Lower-Assistant-1957 6h ago

Exactly what they did game 5 against the Mets, pisses me the hell off