Dodgers stun Blue Jays to win World Series, a breakdown

The Blue Jays are three outs away from winning the World Series. Strike that, correct it. The Blue Jays are two outs away from winning the World Series. They are excited. This breakdown is brought to you by DraftKings. It's got tons of extra footage you've never seen before. It's maybe the best ending to a World Series we've had. Definitely in recent history. Miggy Rowe is up. He was hurt the day before. They didn't think he was going to play. Ohtani is on deck. You do not want a base runner when you face Ohtani. You need to get Miggy Rowe out. He expects pitches in the zone because of that and chases, but doesn't chase the next one. Says, nah, you got me once, not twice. That is low. Now you're behind. Two and one. Fastball. Nice pitch. Fouled back. Two strikes. Stays alive on the fastball again. Three fastballs in a row. No, they tried to freeze him with the slider. It missed. Oh, the crowd can't believe it. Now it's a full count. And Miggy Rowe is at bat before this one. He also got to a full count. Shohei on deck behind him. You can't give Shohei base runners. If you give the base runner to Shohei, he hits a home run. It's not a tie game. You're losing. You got to come in the zone here. Everybody knows it. So what do you do? You say, okay, he knows I'm coming to the zone, but I'm not going to give him the fastball in the zone. I'm going to try and trick him and throw a slider in the zone, but I have to make sure it's in the zone. So it's not going to be the best slider. It's not a great slider. Miggy Rowe takes it deep into that fan's glove. Ties the game. They were four strikes away from winning, from being World Series champs. Oh, Hoffman can't believe it. Dave Roberts. He can't believe it. Oh my God. He cannot believe it. What just happened. Miggy Rowe, look at the focus. Look at the eyes. Look at the hope. Look at the wishing. Look, let's go. Let's go. This fan catches it and then it's like, ****, damn. Cool that I caught it. I mean, yeah, I did catch it, but cool. I love Blake Snell's reaction because he's the pitcher. So he can't go crazy. He's got to maintain composure. He's got to go back on that mound. Everyone is screaming and yelling around him, just going nuts. And he's like, nope, I can't do this. I have to stay composed. I'm going on the mound. I got to sit down. I got to get my changeup ready. Going to be facing Vladdy. The Dodgers don't have the lead. They just tied it. The Blue Jays can win the World Series with a walk-off. Amazing. That would be amazing. And that's what Vladdy wants to do. But changeup is outside. Slider's low. Next slider's low. 3-0. Crowd's like, just do it, Vladdy. We don't want you to walk. Come on. Just hit that homer. We don't care if you swing 3-0. Just do it. What's he going to get? 3-0? Changeup. Did he get it? Oh, no. He did not. First out of the inning. Oh, my goodness. They thought they had it. The pain would get worse. The false hope. But Bichette was injured. We're not on the roster for the earlier series. Comes on hitting machine in the World Series. Like, kudos to him. But he's injured. So they pinch run. Ikaif. Ikaif is not a speedster. He's got average speed. But he's going to pinch run because Bichette is hurt. Now, Barger's up. And this at-bat is going to be a lot of pitches. He's fouling him off. He's staying alive. It's 2-2. He fouls it off. He eats it. 3-2. Snell wanted it as a strike. Didn't get it. It was just off the plate. Snell just goes, damn, man. Come on, man. Damn. Roberts says, you got to go out. We're going to bring in Yamamoto. Blue Jays. This guy again. Oh, my goodness. He pitched yesterday. But Vlad, he's praying. We got it. This is our shot. Yamamoto pitched the game before. Unbelievable. He's got Kirk up. And with the second pitch, he hits him to load the bases. Now, the odds are heavily in the Blue Jays' favor. A ball in play, and they win. Another hit by pitch, and they win. A walk, and they win. Dave Roberts says, all right, got to make some changes with the bases loaded. I'm going to take Edmond out of center field. I'm going to bring Pais in because he's got a better arm, better fielder. Yeah, watch this. Watch this, Blue. This one's going to work. You're going to be impressed with this move, okay? All right, cool. Here we go. Vars shows up. Bottom ninth. Snell. Spectator now. Vladdy, Springer. Blue Jays watching. First pitch to Vars show. Low and away. Next pitch, put in play, but foul. Wow. So close. And then Dotson, 97-mile-per-hour fastball. This is the play of action. Rojas grabs it, throws home. They get him if he's safe. They win the World Series. The Dodgers brought the infield in. And it works. And the fans are confused. Wait, what? The Blue Jays fans very confused. They celebrate. Yes. Yeah. Whoa. What do you mean? They didn't tag him? Oh, what? What are we talking? No, no, no. Wait, wait, wait. No, no, no. No, he's got to review it. No, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Watch. He's going to. Yes. He's reviewing it. Yes. He's reviewing it. But reviewing what? Hmm. I thought he had to tag him. What the heck is going on here? Do I? What is this about? The ownership. They celebrated as if they were World Series champs. This freeze frame. No, it's like an alternate universe. Look at this. They thought they won. And then it's like, wait, we did it. What do you say? We, huh? What? Oh, he is reviewing it. So we will get another look. The ball clearly beat him. I mean, Miggy Rojas makes the play. That little Hezzy right there. But he gets it. He fires it. Will Smith catches it like, you know, he's out by two feet there. So you got to rip. Oh, wait. Did you see his foot? Watch this. He catches it, but his foot is in the air. Oh, it's a World Series going to end on a tiki-taki replay. I hope not. I was hoping not. But here we go. That spike of his cleat just comes down before IKF's foot reaches the bag. Thank God, not for Blue Jays fans, thank God, but for like this state of baseball and the drama around it. You don't want to win on that play. Although I fully understand Blue Jays fans want to win on that play. So there was a lot of discussion around this play, around two things. IKF, should he have gotten a bigger lead? You are the World Series winning run. You were in there to pinch run. Should he have gotten a bigger lead off third base? Should he have gotten a secondary lead? And the other part, should he have slid? Should he have not slid? Should he have slid headfirst? Well, these are all the leads he got in the at-bat. They're pretty consistent. Now, the one on the bottom is when he runs home. The second one is the foul ball. So he got the best jump. You know, better jump than on a foul ball. But yeah, it's not that deep of a lead. Here it is. Usually you want to match the third baseman because if they were on a play to back pick you, which I'll show you, you want to match him. He's really close. The other angle shows it and he's, it doesn't look as different here. It looks like he's a little similar to Muncie at third. Now, me personally, I don't have any gripe with being tight at third there. I don't think you need a big secondary lead. Most players and most teams don't have big secondary leads at third base because if the ball gets through the infielder, you're scoring with ease. If the ball goes to the outfield, you're scoring with ease. The majority of balls in play, you're scoring with ease, especially if they bobble it. What you don't want to happen is get back picked. Which happens decently a good amount. If you get a big secondary lead and the catcher and the third baseman are aware of it, it'd be a risky move for the Dodgers to do this in the World Series. But it also was a lefty batter up, which means the catcher has a clear throwing lane. And when a lefty's up, you get a little less big leads. This would have been devastating if this happened. People would have been like, where are you going? You score so easily. A sack fly and you score. Why would you risk the lead if this happened? That's what everyone would be yelling if they back picked him. If there was a hot shot to Muncie and he was able to grab it and get the bag for the double up. And this was Ernie Clement on the Blue Jays getting back picked in Toronto, which is good for this exercise because I can show you the overlay of where he was and where IKF was. And that's McMahon at third when they ran this play. Here's the overlay. And you can see McMahon, the third baseman, he's way farther away than Max Muncie. And then you can see Ernie Clement, the runner, gets a bigger lead and they put on a play and they get him with ease. That can't happen. If that happens and he's out there, the loudness of, dude, you score on a sack fly. You score on a hard hit ball that gets through the infield. Why would you risk a secondary lead is way louder than what we're currently having without getting a second lead, in my opinion. And also, I did some research. Getting back picked at third base by the catcher has happened way more times than the runner on third has beat the play. By beat the play, I mean there's not a big error by the infielder or the catcher on this play. And they stop the ball, they throw it home and the runner just was faster than the play. The amount of times that has happened in the last 10 years that I did research on is zero. It has not happened. You don't just be faster than the play. You're hoping they bobble the ball. It's an error. It gets through the infield. They got a ball right to second. Now, this is the play here, Miggie Rowe. It goes right to him and he makes the throw and Smith gets his foot back down. Every single ball hit to a second baseman where this play is on. Base is loaded, zero or one out. The play is at home. Every single time, the runner is out. Easily, actually. I've watched all of them. So that's a ball to second. He throws home. They've never beat the play. The only time they score is when the second baseman mishandles the ball, drops it. It gets by, he spikes it to the catcher and he can't catch it. He air mails it over the catcher's head. But anytime it's fielded, you know, relatively cleanly by both players, the runner has been out. So it's not a play that IKF is going to score on a lot. He needs a bobble. He needs a misplay. They got that. They got the slightest misplay. The throw took Will Smith's foot off the bag this much. So where my big gripe is, the slide. You don't have to slide. You can run right through that bag. You don't have to slide. You don't have to start your slide this far away. You know, some people slide and they touch the plate with their hand because that gives you like two more steps before you go down. But I mean, all of this, as soon as his friction is happening, he is slowing down. Like, even if he slides and his foot lands on the plate, he's safe because of that bobble, which is heartbreaking for Toronto fans. That slide is like a, I don't know. The IKF slides like that all the time. I looked up footage. Even if there's not a play at home plate, he just slides in. I used to talk about it when I covered him on the Yankees. I was like, he does the same slide. It's just like a video game. Just that's his slide. Anyway, the game continues and Ernie Clement can still win this thing for the Blue Jays. They still have the go-ahead run on third base. He just needs to put a charge into one, which he does, which he does to the warning track. Who's going to catch it? Anyone? Oh my God. What? The defensive replacement that Dave Roberts put into the game makes the incredible play. He covered 123 feet. He bulldozed his left fielder to the ground. Ernie Clement cannot believe it. What? Huh? Oh my God. And the sick thing about this replay, I think Kike was going to catch it too. I think if Pais got a later jump, I think he's basket catching this ball. I think the Dodgers were making this play. They were just in a special mode of baseball. What an absolutely amazing catch. But I do think that Hernandez was going to catch that basket style. So much tougher, but he had it. He was there. He had the read on it. He's underneath it. If you freeze frame it and look at the ball going, I think he's, you know, tracking it. Instead, he gets bulldozed. Pais makes the grab. Keeps the game tied. Unbelievable. Watch Yamamoto's reaction. He's like, oh ----. Oh boy. Oh no. What? Oh, did he still a little confused? He cat out? That's not, oh, okay. Wow. Whoo. All right. Okay, good stuff. ****. Glad he can't believe it. No way we didn't score. Bases loaded. One out. Oh my goodness. The game continues. Let's jump ahead to the 11th inning. We're still tied. Shane Bieber is in the game for the Blue Jays. Miguel Rojas at the plate. The hero takes a strike. It's outside. And then swings over that one. Puts it in play. Ernie Clement gobbles it up. Throws it the first one out. All right. Shohei's up. Dangerous guy. First pitch. One hopper to IKF. Bam. One out. Two outs. Okay, let's push it to the bottom of the 11th. Let's win this game. All right. Will Smith is up. He was on the other end of the Miguel Rojas play. He kept the game tied. He got moved up in the batting order by Dave Roberts couple games ago because he was sick of people walking Shohei and then Mookie was up and he was going through a tough time. Now Will Smith is in this spot. First pitch. Curveball takes it. Next pitch. Curveball takes it. Okay, 2-0. 2-0 is a fastball count. Blue Jays are like, let's not give in and throw a fastball on a fastball count. Let's throw another slider. It's three in a row, but it's got to be in the zone. Same thinking with the last home run. Oh boy, it happened again and it goes to the same exact spot in the crowd and now the Dodgers have the lead. They have flooded out of the dugout. They're screaming. Look at Kershaw's reaction. He's going. Oh my God. And then he just runs. Who do I celebrate with? Oh my God. I got to tell someone. Everybody already knows. Oh my God. Am I going to go out a winner? Oh, okay. Let me get back to my spot. Oh, that's crazy, man. Oh, crazy. Wow. Collect myself. Oh, and then a little smile. A little look like a tearful smile. Look at that emotion. Oh, is it? Oh, is that real? I think he just got chills. I think we're just witnessing someone get chills right here. Yep. It's real. Bang. Freddie says turns around. Teoscar's got the seeds. Boom in the face. Bam. Shohei's slapping him on the butt, slapping him back. Let's go. Shohei with a bunch. Let's go. Oh, let's go. Blue Jays fans having different emotions and thoughts and feelings. Heartbreak in Toronto. And yeah, the same family got the ball again. And once again, full effort to gobble up the ball, grabs it, happy. And then a sudden realization like, damn, I don't want it. Like, you know, I really, we already got the last one. We'll throw this one back. Watch how similar these home runs are. It's insane. Boom. They go to the same spot. Look at all the fielders. Besides second base, everyone else does the same thing. Look at the left field or center field. There are little different starting places. Look at all this. It's crazy. They basically touch first base at similar times. Now they're running around the bases and they're going to touch second at the same time. It's wild. Okay. Now they're going to touch third. I like this. They're like one person here. Third base coach. He's in sync. Look at his legs. Unbelievable. That is wild. And my favorite thing about being a catcher. Got to strap the pads on, get back to work. Job's a grind. Can't celebrate too long. Can't stay in the moment. Got to get my pitcher through it. Yamamoto still out there. Bottom of the 11th. Vladdy's leading off. Got to be a little careful. Little cut fastball outside. Okay, ball one. Next pitch. Little, like, sinker outside. Ball two. Then he comes in the zone and Vladdy takes. That's the pitch everyone else on the Dodgers got swung at. I mean, it's a better pitch, but it's there. Two and one. Strike on the inside. Two and two. That one's inside. Now he's been inside the last three. Vladdy's like, I do not want to walk. We need a runner in scoring position. I got out last time and I watched him lose. I'm hitting this damn ball. It's inside. It's a jam shot. He's able to keep his hands on it while being quick enough. Puts it in play. The tying run is on second. Bobo! Bobo! Bobo! Let's go. He's leading the team. IKF up again. They say we're going to play for the tie, not to take the lead. They bunt. He gets it down. It's textbook. The tying run's at third. You did give them a free out, which I'm sure the Dodgers appreciate. Okay, now you got to do a lot of thinking. The tying run is on third. Barger is up. The lefty. And then you have the righty Kirk, who's righty-unrighty and he's slower. Blue Jays fans are praying. Please, please. Now, I was surprised they didn't intentionally walk Barger here to set up the double play, but they kind of did without doing it. They threw the pitches. I would have just put him on first base and set this up, but they risk it. He doesn't chase. It's a four-pitch walk. There's a runner on first. The double play is set up. Oh, but we're still praying. We're in deep prayer. Please don't end. Alejandro Kirk's up. Fouls that one. Strike one. Then takes, that's such a dangerous pitch. Oh, but the balls to throw that pitch. Whoo. 0-2 now. He's got to protect the zone. They throw the splitter, which misses barrels, but gets balls in play. Steps on second. Throws it to first. The Dodgers go back-to-back. They win. Look at the reaction from Yamamoto here. People saying, oh, he's going to LA to be in Otani's shadow. He says, no, I'll create my own. I'm good. Just incredible. Everyone's mouth's open. Everyone's screaming. The dog piles on the coaches. Look at Dave Roberts in the coaches pile. Look at him. Oh my God. I can't believe it. He's like reflecting too early. Oh, Magic is pumped in the suite. Then they're just giving hugs, celebrating and screaming. Every move he did worked. Unbelievable. Maybe the best managed end of a series I've ever seen. I really like this shot. So I'm just going to show it to you because this is the players running on the field to celebrate, but then you've got this crew. Now, I'm sure Dodgers fans know who these guys are. I'm not familiar, but you got this crew. They're going to do their own hug and celebrate and then the whole crew is going to run to the coaches and celebrate over there with the coaching staff and there's two different parties going on. Players on the field, coaching staff, support staff over there. They're just as excited. They've been just as in it. Unbelievable. Maybe one of the best World Series we've seen in a long time. Thank you for tuning in. Appreciate you. This one is brought to you by DraftKings. I still have many more videos to come about the World Series and the playoffs. Hopefully I get to them. Hopefully you guys enjoy them, even though they're a little later.