 We got a really fun storyline in the ALCS this year. We got drama. We got beef. We got benches clearing. Breakdown is brought to you by DraftKings. Adelise Garcia is up with two on bottom of the six in a big game of the championship series and he sends a ball way deep and he watches it the whole way in slow walks. And once it's over the fence, he says, Oh, I'm the best. I'm the best. Slams his bat down and he's off touching the bases. Verlander's upset. This fan's having fun. That fan's having a lot of fun. Touches second. Head down. Round in the bases. Let's go. Oh, yeah, baby. And then he's going to do a little boom. Slams on home plate and has a lot of attention on him. Had a lot of fun swinging big. And these two teams have had a lot of drama over the regular season. A lot of hit by pitches. Throwing at people intentional. Not intentional. Retaliating big home runs. That's Garcia hitting a home run. And when he came home, Simeon and Maldonado were John. And then he instead of celebrating him and Maldonado are talking to each other. And yeah, so there's just a lot on everyone's mind. They've thrown at each other before. They don't like each other. So the next inning when the Rangers are hitting Abreu is now pitching for the Astros. And he wants that as a strike. 97 fastball doesn't get it. 85 slider high. 96 away. 96 in the zone. 3-1 pitch wants that. 96 up and in. Doesn't get it. All around the zone. Up steps. Adolis Garcia. The crowd's going wild. Everyone wants more runs. Garcia must have been anticipating this because as soon as he gets it, he turns to Maldonado and he's like, no, no, no, no, no. Hey, he pushes him. He wagging his finger. The fans, umpires trying to hold him back. Fans are having fun. You got the coach. Ragsdale I believe his name is pushing him. Now watch this. Oh yeah, watch this. Okay, wait. Ready? I'll slow it down. You got this coach. Holding him back. Holding him back. And he's going to cut inside and look at the coach's spin move here. Spins and catches him before he gets there. Adolis Garcia. Now he didn't know what to do when he got there and he was going to slow down and get caught anyway. But watch this little move. Let's him go. Great agility by the coach. Still got it. Maldonado sees him coming. And just how about Garcia? Just like circumnavigating the whole crowd and finding his dude. But Maldonado sees him coming. Watch him kind of like drop back right there. Like, okay, like he's ready. Is he going to throw a punch? He's just bracing himself. Who knows? Everyone realizes what's happening. So now everyone's over there bumping into each other, protecting each other. There's a glove right in the middle. And I was like, whose glove is that? I found it. Jose Ebreu was in the middle of the pack. See him? And he's going to throw his glove down to the side. He's like, hey, let me get my glove. Out of this melee. Throws it. Turns out the glove got in the middle of the melee. Almost broke up the fight. Maybe that's what he was doing. Like, who? Little water on the fire throws the glove into the middle. Don't trip on this. Don't trip on this. Speaking of tripping on stuff, the two umpires converge in the middle here and both at the same time push the pitcher. Ebreu back. Look, both of them say, hey, get back there. He steps on Garcia's back. Could have rolled his ankle terribly now. It was like a very gentle step, but he stepped on the bat. There's stuff on the ground. You got to be careful. I also like that Jordan Alvarez, biggest scariest dude on the field, is on the other side and he goes straight to the Rangers, grabs Garcia and plays pacifist. And Ecker comes up to him and he's like, pats him on the hip. Like, good job. Thanks, man. Thanks, man. Because if you were doing the other thing, if you weren't pacifier, you were instigator, that'd be pretty bad. That would be pretty, pretty shitty. So Jordan walks Garcia back. Says, hey, no, no, no. He says, no, no, no. He says, no, no, no. And they're just like, it's okay. It's okay. Garcia jacked. At least Garcia, when it takes the helmet off, you're like, whoa, that's what's going on under there? You're huge. Look how instant his look at Maldonado was. Crazy quick. Gets hit and then right away. I think he kind of sells the umpires that this was intentional. And I think the umpires reacted off of Garcia's reaction. If he just walks to first, I don't think there's a suspension. I wonder in the future if that's like a strategy to get a pitcher suspended and kicked out of the game. It's just act like it was intentional. He told me he was going to do that. He told me he was going to do that. And he just wags his finger at Maldonado here. No, no, no. And then I'm going to highlight Maldonado's face the whole time. So I blurred everything else. And if you look, you know, he doesn't look like that's on purpose. He looks like, oh, shit, dude, are you gonna? No, I don't want to have to do this with you. No, no, no, dude. Not on purpose. No, so he was doing that. The umpires get together like, I don't know. Garcia's pretty upset. Maybe he told me he was going to do that. Garcia walks down the line, waits it out. Dusty, what the fuck? Dusty is not happy. He's like, what's going on here? They don't know. We threw your pitcher out of the game. What? Yeah. You know, out of the game? What? You threw him out? Yeah, we did. Okay. Do you want to get tossed too? That's bullshit. You're done. I don't give a fuck. That is fucking bullshit. You know that. Hell no. It's a two-run fucking game, James. Hell no. So, Abreu is ejected. He's got to leave the game. Bochi and Garcia just look on. I switch their heads onto each other's bodies. The umpires are like, hey, okay, let's wait. Dusty didn't leave. Dusty? And Dusty just hasn't left. He decided that he's not ejected. He said, hey, you were thrown out. You guys are fucking wrong. Huh? Well, I mean, you got no feel. This is fucking bullshit. Dusty's not excited, but he's got to leave because they kicked him out. He leaves. The Astros bring Presley in. Rangers kind of have momentum and we're going to walk through the rest of this game because it's a phenomenal finish to a baseball game. Rangers up 4-2. Two on no outs, hot shot. Jose Abreu gobbles it up and decides that he's going to get the runner at second to keep the double play in order. Crazy risky throw because he's on his back side and he's twisted up. He throws it in the outfield. That's bad news. Presley says, thanks. I didn't need the double play in order, though. I'm just going to strike out young and then I'm going to strike out low. Fastball must have been sitting fastball. Get slider. Must have been sitting slider. Gets fastball out of the inning. Okay. Top nine. The clerk's in. First batter gets a base hit. They pinch hit Singleton who's got an awesome crazy story. First at bat of the postseason in this spot. Doesn't swing. I'm not swing unless you throw me a strike. They think he's going to swing because he's antsy. Wanted to swing at that kind of froze up. Wanted to swing at that. 3-2 stays in. His element does not chase a big walk and that brings up out 2 of A. And Malden and I was like, what idiots? What idiots? They got us fired up and now they didn't pitch. They're going to pitch to Altuve. Well, do they not know what's happening here? First pitch slider away for a strike. That's 85 miles per hour. That's the clerk's nicest pitch. But look at Altuve just kind of timing it up. Never wanted it, but timing it up. And that's 85 miles per hour. So the next pitch, I would go fastball or like slider way away. I don't know what I'd do. I would go fastball or slider way away. That's what I would do. They're going to throw a change up, which is another off-speed pitch. So that's what Altuve just sized up as off-speed. And in the zone, into his sweet spot, he just absolutely hammers it. It barely gets over the wall, but I mean, good God, he was sitting on that and just hammered it for a big homerun to give the Astros the lead. They are fired up. That's what they do. That's what Altuve does. And does he act like it's anything crazy or out of the ordinary? No, nothing to it. That's just what Jose Altuve does. Want to know what he was busy thinking about? He wanted to go make sure he found Singleton and let him know how crucial that walk was. Hey, that's what I'm fucking talking about. That was all you right there. Hey, fuck. It's nice, a nice feeling for Singleton. Worked the walk in front of Altuve. Altuve, first thing he does, he goes, lets him know. Daps him up. Hey, that was all you. Altuve's in the on-deck circle during that at bat, so he got to see a lot of pitches from the clerk. Also, just like passing the baton to the top of the order is pretty important for the Astros, so Singleton got the job done there. And look at the clerk's eyes. That is just a shook man. What the hell happened? He went change up in the zone into the sweet spot. Not good. Boat you with a little neck stretch, Lincoln. Oh, shit. And the clerk, little, yeah, he can't shake it. He's trying to shake it out of his brain. And he can't in what the heck just happened. Dusty comes out of his ejection cave. High fives the dudes. Big win, big drama. Thank you guys for watching. Thank you to DraftKings for sponsoring the breakdown. I appreciate them and I appreciate you. And sorry it was a little bit delayed. It was under the weather over the weekend. Thank you to DraftKings.