Yahoo Sports senior MLB analysts Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman dissect the play at the plate in New York’s 4-2 loss on Tuesday that put them one game away from losing the World Series. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Giancarlo Stanton is a fascinating physical being right now.
His top half still works the way it always has.
And it’s really just sad because this guy used to be an unbelievable athlete with decent speed and now because he’s had so many lower body injuries, he just can’t move quickly.
So he’s on second volpe strings this single to left and the second it touches grass.
I grabbed your arm like I, we knew what was coming man and ball meet at home.
A bang bang play.
Giancarlo slides right into the mitt.
He is out unequivocally depressingly.
He then flips on his back like a dying bug almost.
And the whole crowd just, it was I, if you’ve never heard 47,000 people groan in unison, it was unbelievable.
He’s probably safe if the throw isn’t perfect.
I mean, it was a perfect throw.
That’s my point here.
Eight is so easy to be like Giancarlo Stanton was out.
It was a bad scent, right?
Because he is slow as molasses and it ended with an out.
But when the play is that close, it’s a good scent for me.
End of story, especially because of how bad.
The rest of the Yankee lineup has been, this is their chance to score a run to chip away to get back into this ball game to change the energy.
And just because the result was bad, doesn’t mean that the process of Louie Rojas that they basically setting was bad because like you said, it’s a perfect throw and it’s really close if Stanton slides in head first, which heat like baby can’t, you know, he hasn’t, I can’t picture that.
He’s probably safe, right?
Like it’s a close enough play where if the ball is 2 ft up, the first baseline, Stanton is safe, think about if he’s safe from like a moment standpoint, right?
Gian Carlo scoring there, you know, again, it’s like, does that suddenly make the Yankees offense better?
And they’re energized and they suddenly score 15 runs?
No.
But like that could have been something because we have seen moments in this postseason recently where Stan is thrown up by 10 ft and it’s like what I believe it did happen earlier this postseason once where you’re thinking like it looks terrible, but this did end up being a close play and to your point, they’re trying to get runs any way they can and as deflating as that was, you could sort of understand why they were trying to push it there.
I think it’s worth the risk still when he’s out.
It is deflating, deflating.
That’s the game.
I mean, that’s the ball game.
Right.
The game either ends when Fat Joe opens his mouth.
Freddie Freeman thumps one to right.
Or Gian Carlo Stanton is rolling around on his back.
That’s it.
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