Still one of the best sporting moments of my lifetime. Jays are good for that. Alomar, Carter, Jose, and Edwin. It's why baseball is so intoxicating. The moments are so huge.
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Still one of the best sporting moments of my lifetime. Jays are good for that. Alomar, Carter, Jose, and Edwin. It's why baseball is so intoxicating. The moments are so huge.
Joe Carter's home run is one of the defining moments of my childhood.
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Joe Carter's home run is one of the defining moments of my childhood.
It’s literally what made me fall in love with baseball.
I was 7 years old living just outside Toronto and my dad had been glued to the TV that October watching the Jays. He taught me about the game and I was curious. That homerun sealed the deal
Still one of the best sporting moments of my lifetime. Jays are good for that. Alomar, Carter, Jose, and Edwin. It's why baseball is so intoxicating. The moments are so huge.
It’s fun watching that again and noticing the little nuances that get lost in the heat of the moment.
Goins not getting the bunt down on his first attempt. Before the next pitch, the Jays decide to pinch run Dalton Pompey for Russell Martin at second base. That extra speed may have been the pressure that lead to that 3rd error by Andrus. Had Goins been successful on attempt 1, Martin likely is thrown out at third base.
The Ben revere ground ball to 1B with the bases loaded, Moreland throws home and the catcher tries to throw to first for the double play attempt. Pompey slides in and takes him out. Martin likely isn’t there in time, and that may have been a double play.
The aforementioned Donaldson bloop, about 1 inch past the glove of Odor. Odor actually breaks in for a split second before turning back.
Any of those don’t happen, and the extra out means the Bautista at bat never even takes place.
And it’s funny, that inning was already such a classic that as Bautista is stepping up to bat to deliver the greatest moment, Harold Reynolds says “What’s next?!”
Unbelievable theatre
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It wasn't that long ago and sports betting was obviously already a thing, but today, Andrus' errors, all of them pretty routine plays, would be heavily scrutinized by the gambling community.
But yes, the very intricate sequence of events to just get to Bautista, made his HR really that much more incredible.
And to me it was like the Carter HR in the sense that you really weren't anticipating a HR, just hoped in both cases that he could get a single to tie or take the lead in the game. In both the 93 and 15 game, the Jays grinded out at bats to get on base and into scoring position, and you hoped for that to continue...and then in both cases the small ball inning get blown up with an HR.
