I wasn’t following closely, why wasn’t Betts in RF?
Never mind, I get it now
He was in RF
That easily enters the pantheon of bizarre walkoffs that I’ve seen, right up there with Bregman’s “hit” that went six inches in front of the plate before he dodged a tag from Lucroy, and the Cards getting an obstruction call to walk off the Red Sox in 2004 WS.
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So glad all that happened to Jansen.
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If Jansen had backed up the plate instead of pouting, they still get Arozarena at home.
Maybe, maybe not because it glanced off at an angle. No chance though, as you point out, if he does not back up the plate at all.
Was he pouting or had he gone to backup 3B? Off the bat, his job is to backup a play at 3B. There is no play at the plate until the error. Then it’s a foot race with Arozarena.
EDIT: Ok, just saw a replay of Jansen the whole time. He was pouting. He fell to his knees on the mound, then just watched the whole thing unfold. Slacker.
Video replay on at bat from behind home plate shows Jansen stay on the mound, then drop to his knees (probably when Taylor booted it), then he backs toward the 3rd baseline and arrives there about the time Arroz con Pollo tumbles.
He backed nothing up.
Yeah, I just saw that. He just stood there and pouted.
The tying run would have been a play at the plate had Taylor come up with the ball throwing. With runners at first and second and a base hit, I would have backed up the plate, not third.
They had no play on Kiermaier. He was 30 ft from the plate when Taylor first got to the ball. I thought maybe Taylor was thinking he had a play at 3B.
The replays I’d seen last night showed Jansen running down the line with Arozarena. Thought maybe he was thinking there could be a throw to 3B. But yeah, he didn’t back up anything. Just stood there and pouted.
To be fair, he may not have been pouting.
He may have been trying to swallow his vomit.
Arozarena reminded me of the play in the football game the other night when the Giants QB stumbled at the 10 yard line. His body just out ran his feet.
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Ha.
He definitely Daniel Jones’ed it.
I hate the Dodgers. Always have.
My wife HATES them. When Bellinger dislocated his arm she said she wished he’d have snapped it. Yeah. Don’t cross her.
So when Phillips fell behind she got up from the couch and headed for the bedroom because she didn’t want to see LA win.
She was almost out of the room when I shouted “Base hit! They tied it!.. He booted it!!”
After that a transcript could probably only read ‘incoherent’. Which would be an apt description for that play.
She made me rewind it half a dozen times and we watched all the replays. She especially loved the Roberts reaction.
Anyway, fuck the Dodgers.
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Wouldn’t have done any good. He already had some on his shoes.
No shit. What the fuck was that all about?
I didn’t have the opportunity to see the game. Was Taylor out there as a “defensive” replacement?
They pinch hit for Pollock in the 7th. It was Peterson, who had the 2-run go-ahead single.
Edit: to further explain…Pollock started in CF and Taylor in LF. Bellinger was DH. They pinch hit Pederson for Pollock in the 7th, and he stayed in to play LF while Taylor went to CF.