 Game one of the World Series is maybe one of my favorite games of baseball I watched in a while. Astros fans are in prayer. It's bottom ninth tied up at five. There's like seven or eight tiny little moments in this that probably could have deserved their own breakdown. And maybe I'll do micro versions of this later on, but I kind of want to just do the whole end of the game. So Altuve's up. He's got a one two count and he just spoils that pitch. Then 89 miles per hour pops it up, but the problem is the Phillies were in no doubles defense and it drops in front of them. The only problem there is Altuve thought he didn't get it that good and it was an easy out so he doesn't run hard out of the box just puts his head down and jogs. Marsh was playing deep. They're in no doubles defense and then you can see it's watch it again. Watch his first steps up top. They're back, back, back. Oh in, in, in, in. So he got a bad read on it. Also playing no doubles because you don't want a runner in scoring position, which is second base. So Altuve doesn't run out of the box. Could have been a double maybe. He's on first and this video is brought to you by SeatGeek code. John Boy Playoffs gets you 10% off tickets. You can have used the code already. You could have already used a discount code. It doesn't matter. Use as many times you want 10% off. You can go to any event that sells seats. First pitch. Altuve's got to make up for not being on second base with that hit. So he's off to the races. He steals and they rule him safe. Everyone's like, what the hell is that topper? Like, let's review this. Why not? The ball hits Altuve's leg then goes into Segura's glove. It's incredible how close this play is and it's interesting. So all right. So first baseman, it's a very weird rule and you wouldn't think this is the rule, but when you're at first base, it's not when the ball hits the back of the glove. The rule is it's when the ball enters the glove, which is super strange. If that's the same rule here on this play, then you would think he's out because the ball has entered the glove right now. But I think his foot doesn't touch the base yet. At least not enough to make impact because look as I scroll forward one frame by frame of the base, looks like it gets hit there where it starts kind of getting cushioned. And by that point, the ball's in his glove. Crazy play. I have no idea the exact rule. I just know in first base that counts as in the glove right there. Now, are we positive he doesn't have a spike on the base? No. I didn't think there was any chance they were going to overturn this, but it would have been pretty big because it's a go ahead run on second base. And it's just, it's incredible that Segura held on to that ball. There's another angle. It's as close as it can get. So because you can't tell for sure if he's on the base or not, and it's so close and it was ruled safe on the field, everyone was pretty positive they were just going to rule this as safe. And they say, yep, the call stands, the runner is safe. So they're not confirmed, but it stands. So now with the runner on second, they were playing no doubles defense, right? But now there's a runner on second. So you can see Schwerber say, hey, hey, hey, we got to get this guy at home now. Play in, play in. And Castianison right feels like, what? Oh, move in. Okay. And per the data, he moved 20 feet. Eventually he walks 20 feet closer because now instead of no doubles defense, it's, we got to throw this guy out at the plate. If the ball's in front of us, we got to come up, throw in and look what happens. Just a chain of events. The ball is hit. It's a bloop. 65 catch probability. Castianis comes down with it because he moved a little closer because Altuve got to second after not getting to second. He's in the defense and it's just this whole tangled web. And look at his eyes. Look at the focus. Crazy. Locked in. Till it's in his glove, then he goes turtle back. The picture has a weird reaction to me. At first, I got here, he sees that it's caught right here. And then he just looks back home and then he looks back. And maybe he's like still upset about the other one landing. And then he's like, all right, I'll react accordingly. Good catch. Good catch. All right, so to the top of the 10th inning, Luis Garcia is in. When I was a little bit of baby, my mama would rock me in the cradle. He rocks his glove like a, like a baby before he pitches. He spikes that pitch. That's like his secondary pitch. Then dots a 98 mile per hour fastball then rocks the baby, rocks the baby and he's going to throw his cutter. I'm guessing that's a cutter off the fastball. So real Mudo sees this pitch. This is the second pitch, fastball right in there. Doesn't really agree with the ums call, but now he has to protect that spot. And Garcia says, I'm going to go right back to that spot, but with the cutter. And that's what it looks like, the two of them together. And he thinks he's protecting the same fastball. Nope, cut fastball. All right, so the count is now one and two, two strikes. He goes back to that pitch, spikes it again. Then he goes back to that pitch, it's spiked again. And now real Mudo is thinking, all right, he hasn't thrown that for a strike. He hasn't thrown it in the zone once, but he did throw that fastball for a strike. So he's probably going to come fastball. He's locked in. This kid's locked in, licking his teeth, nervous energy, three, two pitch, big pitch in the game, goes fastball, 98 outside again and real Mudo pokes it right over the fence for the go ahead home run. The bench is going crazy. Reese Hoskins and Marsh do their handshake, which is like up, get up. Yeah. Let's go. Schwerber's excited. This little kid, let's go. And that guy's like, I hear just a little kid. I want to fight you though. So the Phillies are up one run and they got the meat of their order up. They got Jordan Alvarez, scary, Bragman, scary, Tucker, two home runs in this game and D Rob on the bump. And this was the scariest pitching. I see who opens them up curveball and he hits it a billion miles per hour foul. Then fastball hard of the play. That's a pitch. If you're your Jordan Alvarez, you're like, what? Why didn't I hit that? Then he gives it to him again. 94 fastball outside, but center. That's a pitch you're it on puts right to left field, Crawford boxes. And he missed it. All right. Outside with the curveball, then the 94 fastball again. Robertson's scaring the shit out of me. Probably scaring the shit out of every Phillies fan and Astros fan scared too. Towel face. All right. One, two goes to the curveball, gets him to swing over it. Nice block, JT. Now if you're thinking, why is he swinging at that? Why do they always chase? Well, he got so many fastballs in the zone. And then finally he gets the curveball, which decides to just dart down instead of stay straight and D-Rob gets him. But now Braggman's up and he's going to go all, that was scary, all sliders or cutters, curveballs, all breaking stuff. And Braggman's off balance, off balance, and then finally sits on one, throws it up against the wall. Schwabber can't get it just out of reach. So now once again, they have the runner on second. They're scaring the pitcher. Woo-ga-woo-ga-woo-ga. Ah, ball, ball. Tying run on second, tucker up, swings huge at that breaking ball. 1-1. You can see the difference in swing here. So he's going to get a breaking ball. This is the 1-0, swings huge at it, tries to hit his third home run of the night. The next pitch, a little more contained, but he fouls it back, doesn't get it. But you can see he's a little more contained the first one. Now the 1-2. Fastball down in the zone and look what D-Rob does after he throws this. Fastball down, oh, spins. Like, oh, I missed my spot. I just heard a story about how Maddox would scream like he missed a spot even though he didn't miss a spot. And what it would do is the batter would think, oh, he didn't execute that pitch. He missed a spot. He's probably going to try and do it again, but hit his spot. And Maddox was just fucking with them and playing head games by faking like, damn, and screaming. Now I'm not saying that's what D-Rob's doing here because it's probably not. It's not everyone is Maddox. But that is cool that pitch or some pitchers or maybe just Maddox did that stuff because he spins like, oh, fully I executed that fastball. And maybe Tucker's thinking, okay, he wanted that fastball. He's probably going to come fastball again. And he goes, curveball, Tucker looks absolutely fooled and strikes out. Now there's two outs. There's the overlay of those two pitches. Not even that crazy, even overlay, but there's two outs. Asher's fans are getting worried. Gurriel's up and he crushes inside pitching. So D-Rob is just going to stay outside. He does not want Gurriel to turn on a ball and put it into left field. So it's just outside. And this is the most careful he's pitched to anyone this inning, which I was a little surprised like Gurriel got the most respect after going through the other three guys. And now a lead miss Diaz. That was first name was pronounced comes up. And maybe this is its own breakdown, but it's so much happens here. And first, D-Rob spikes the curveball and it hits off the plate. So Real Mudo can't block it. He's one of the best defensive catchers. He can't block it. And that means the runners move up. So now the tying run is on third base, which is the closest base to home plate, which means if he spikes another one in the dirt like that and it gets past Real Mudo, the game is tied. Sometimes this takes away the breaking balls in the dirt because you got to really trust your catcher or just trust that nothing weird is going to happen like it hits the plate. So what's D-Rob do now? He throws the curve again, but way up high. Oh, doesn't want to spike it. Aiming high Diaz is like, I wish that hit me almost tried to turn into it even. So close it made his jersey wiggle, the breeze, or maybe did it hit his jersey? I don't know. They didn't call it hit by pitch. And then he comes up top with the breaking ball again, hits him in the elbow, but the um, says, get back here, fucking lean right into it. And D-Rob's like, thank you, blue. Thank you. He was like, what? He's like, you, you did that on purpose. And yeah, he did that on purpose. He's like, oh, I wanted the last one to hit me in retrospect. I'll just put my elbow pad right into this one. It's not going to hurt because I'm padded up. That sucks. Sucks to see that with a pad on. It's a pretty soft move, but trying to win or he, like they don't even need a runner on first base. They need a single. They need to score the run. Loading the bases up doesn't do much. It just passes the baton. So it's like, be a hero, dude. Try to swing the bat, get on base. Instead, it's a bad look. Now that doesn't count as a strike though. The umpire say it would have been a ball. So it's a 3-0 count. And this dude's looking for a walk. I mean, this dude, he just wants to get the first base. So you'd think he wouldn't swing 3-0 because just take the pitch. Hopefully it's a ball. Somehow D-Rob and Real Mudo kind of call the bluff there and they're like, let's go curveball and he swings way over. It's like, oh, now you, now you want to be the hero and swing big. So 3-1 count. D-Rob gets that curveball again and again, curveball in the dirt. So the defensive replacement throws it the first and the Phillies win the game and hang on. Yeah. Let's go, boy. Castellanos runs in. Eye black on point. Had the big catch the inning earlier. Got to get comfy. Rips his jersey up on toxic. There was so much cool stuff that happened that evening that I made a long video about it. Apologize if you're like, just do the short ones. Well, I can splice it up and put out some short ones of some, some smaller moments, but that was why there's so much stuff. That was my favorite baseball game of the season, I think.