2023 World Series: Arizona Diamondbacks vs Texas Rangers

Boo

That's incredible--first AB in a month! It showed.

sadness = when you have no choice but to let austin hedges bat

Should Garcia have stayed at first there? They walk Garver and get the east out in Hedges since he was at second anyways

*easy

Seager's jolt aside, I'm getting tired here. I'm 62 and I want my ghost-runner. (Kidding.)

austin hedges?????

International Man of What's This Thing I'm Holding in My Hand Called Again?

Walk

Guessing Texas has 0 bunts this year and maybe one guy who knows how to.

i had no idea austin hedges was on this team and i'm not convinced he wasn't brought in as comic relief

Especially with a rookie

Walk.

Here we go

I'd love to see Semien snap out of this.

Not sure I would pitch to him here

Lol

Damn--so wanted to see a walk, bases loaded, two out, and Garcia.

Two on, 2-0 to Seager, I would have put money on the game ending right there.

That must be it for Leclerc, right? They either score or...can they dodge Chapman much longer?

I keep forgetting about Carter between Seager and Garcia.

Look at the bright side, it's not Kimbrel

I love that Tracer & gyac might be able to tune in during breaky.

(xpost) I think they've morphed into the same guy.

Wow

this Castro dude missing by a mile

A mate came over to watch the end. Anyways, I’ll be keeping this display name for this series I think. What a game!

This could not have ended any other way

11 inning game, that will work

La Bamba! Whatever!

incredible ending

jesus what a postseason for this guy

more like Adonis amirite

And I was momentarily bemoaning a missed walk.

Just in case you're wondering about his kix:

https://www.adidas.com/us/icon-8-boost-hispanic-heritage-cleats/IG9626.html

Figured they were going to pitch García carefully, pitches were missing by a mile, and then ... right down the middle.

I thought he had to go down and get that pitch, but you might be right--need to see it again.

yeah Castro looked like he might've had nerves or something

I think it was down but on the strike zone.

Anyway, amazing finish, that has to be one of the best ever WS G1's.

Yeah, looked to be both low and right down the middle.

Posted earlier today:

https://www.mlb.com/news/greatest-world-series-game-1s

How in the hell can you root for a division foe, that doesn't register for me H.P.

― Bee OK, Saturday, 28 October 2023 1:33 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Dodgers have been the team to beat in the division the whole time I’ve followed them (a happy coincidence, I just decided to follow baseball one day and I have family in LA so it was the obvious choice, didn’t know they were running hot when I picked them), so don’t feel as a fan there’s anything to prove/offended by another team in the division doing well. If it was the giants or padres I’d feel different, I’m just neutral to the Rockies and Arizona because they’ve been so unthreatening for so long. Giants different for obvious historical reasons, padres for recent bush-league behaviour.

Also, I’m an international fan, so the regional rivalry thing doesn’t cross the pacific with the same strength. I’d imagine I would feel different if I was a local fan.

The dbacks beating the Yanks in 2001 is so classic to me as well so I’ve got a soft spot for playoff dbacks. Opposite for the Rangers whose post season misery I find kind of amusing (the Freeze and Bautista innings are just some of the best things ever; I watch that Bautista inning all the time). It sounds cruel to say, and I will celebrate heartily for the Rangers if they take this (sincerely)! But up to that point… sports are made great through suffering teams (as long as they aren’t yours lol)

I am watching this merely as a baseball fan though and all I’m hoping for is 7 games and don’t mind who wins. I’m not cheering for the diamondbacks, just entertained by them and want to continue to be, same goes for the Rangers. What a game what a sport ❤️

^^ cosign on all of this

"how could you root for a division rival" would be an insane question for my boomer father and presumably a lot of fans from the league loyalty era. core memory for me: my dad grew up a phillies fan but adopted the orioles after moving to maryland. during the 2008 world series, i ask him if he's excited about the phillies. he says "i'm rooting for the rays. i'm an o's fan, i root for the american league." blew my mind to hear that. i still don't really understand being that loyal to a league but having no qualms switching favorite teams. still a little jealous of it though.

i’m kinda like that. when i was growing up the national league were mysterious unknowns, the Other, which made them implacable enemies once the WS came around. the guys who had just beat you in the playoffs or the regular season, at least you knew who they were, and you had to tip your cap (unless they were the yankees obv)

Yes, we might catch the Cubs or Dodgers on the nationally televised Game of the Week, but otherwise the NL might as well have been from a different country.

Beginning in the mid-90's, interleague play together with my own team not making the playoffs for over twenty years made for some illogical rooting interests.

I didn't really have a league from '70 to '76--a favourite team hundreds of miles away, but not a league--and I don't remember ever feeling any special allegiance to the American League once the Jays came into being. Maybe I've forgotten.

As they said many times last night, the Freese game was exactly 12 years ago. If you believe in the team-of-destiny narrative, that probably felt significant. But I don't think I'd want to grab onto that in this year or facing a seemingly equally perfect team-of-destiny candidate.

The pitch that Garcia hit: dead center, bottom of the zone.

https://i.postimg.cc/QM1SvnpX/adolis.jpg

i grew up a phillies fan and definitely stanned the NL. that's who i rooted for in the all-star games obviously. the AL felt like a whole another world. why would you follow them? you never played them except in the all star game and the WS. although apparently my favorite player at age 8 was cal ripken. most importantly, the AL had the DH. the NL was a league of tradition, the AL were upstarts. AL fans will never know the feeling of having your pitcher coming through with a clutch hit!

houston being in the AL feels weird to me, as does texas having two AL teams but no NL teams. i feel like a city/state/metropolitan area (or country - hi canada!) needs that basic level of parity first = one AL team and one NL team - then you can do what you please (california, chicago/milwaukee).

i've adopted the mets because i live in flushing now, shea is so close, and in honor of morbs. luckily there hasn't been a mets/phillies post-season series of consequence afaict. although somebody goes to great lengths to maintain the wikipedia page on the rivalry. i wouldn't call the rivalry "among the most fiercely contested in the NL" though. that's the phils/braves, for which there isn't even a wikipedia page!

Watching game 2 with my new oriole supporting baseball friend convert and another friend who doesn’t know a thing about baseball tomorrow. Really hoping the newbie enjoys it (and we get another cracker game)