Red Sox Throw Bombs and Giants and Dodgers Make History – Jayson Stark’s Weird and Wild, Playoff Edition – The Athletic



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The first pitch of the day was delivered by Corbin Burnes at 2:09 p.m., at least where I live, in the Eastern time zone. The final pitch of the day was the work of Camilo Doval, at 12:16 a.m. in this Eastern time zone. My idiot. It’s 10 hours and 7 minutes of continuous baseball in October. And I loved every minute of it. All 607 of them.

So maybe you are wondering what someone like me might have seen in my 10 hours and 7 minutes of watching playoff baseball on Friday. Well, even if you’re not, I still counted it:

There were 1,102 shots… delivered to 291 batters who kept showing up in the batting area… and turned them into 70 hits… and 40 runs… and 13 homers… and 22 walks… and 78 strikeouts.

I saw Buster Posey throw a baseball in McCovey Cove – and he’s right handed. … I saw Jordan Luplow crush a grand slam in the first inning for the Rays – then not have another at bat all day… as the Red Sox continued to shoot hits and homers but didn’t hit one. only podium.

I saw a pitching duel in Milwaukee. … I saw the Astros detonate another ALDS eruption. … And now I have informed all the authorities of the Weird and Wild Department exactly what I witnessed.



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