A's win the season opener with a walk off grand slam, a breakdown

What Happened

The Oakland Athletics are hosting the season opener against an unnamed opponent. In the bottom of the extra inning, Simeon is placed on second base as the winning run under the new extra-inning rules. Laureano steps up to the plate and has a brief exchange with the pitcher, who says something Laureano can't repeat. Laureano is then hit by a pitch, loading the bases for Athletics slugger Chris Davis. Manager Bob Melvin jogs out to the mound to make a pitching change, bringing in right-hander Hobie Miller, who is making his 2020 season debut after spending last year in the minors. On the first pitch he sees, the 29-year-old Miller crushes a towering grand slam to right field, winning the game for the Athletics in dramatic fashion. The Athletics dugout erupts in celebration as Miller's mammoth home run clears the wall. Even the security guard in the outfield stops to admire the shot. The catcher, unfazed, simply turns and walks away as the ball sails over the fence. After rounding the bases, Miller is met by a Gatorade bath courtesy of teammate Tony Kemp. Kemp admits he didn't execute the Gatorade shower perfectly, saying "I should have just gone straight up." Laureano, meanwhile, is seen celebrating animatedly, having apparently killed a squirrel with his earlier hit-by-pitch. The walk-off grand slam gives the Athletics a thrilling season-opening victory in extra innings. Miller's heroics spark a raucous celebration, capping off an exciting start to the new campaign for the A's.

we got our first glimpse of the extra

inning rules last night in this new

season simeon made the last out of last

inning so he starts on second base

he is the winning run my dude loriano at

the plate

met him once he said hey how'd you read

my lips so well i said i don't know it

was

easy he said you didn't get this word i

can't repeat that word he got hit by a

pitch

now chapman's up he's going to strike

out next up

comes chris davis and they're going to

walk him and now the bases are loaded

and joe madden and all of his red glory

is gonna walk out and he's gonna oh it's

a light jog go give him credit

light little jog out for matt and been

sleeping in his van and he calls up

hobie miller hobie miller spent last

year at

aaa he'd been up and down 29 years old

making his 2020 season debut

trying to get things off on the right

foot olson says what's this guy guy says

i you know

just hit a home run he said okay cool

first pitch off speed

sitting on it oh my god just a tank job

everyone's looking besides the catcher

even the guy working in security or

whatever he's working in the back

need to get a peek at this boy i like to

catch her just nope

out of here hobie saying well that's not

how i wanted to start my season at all

maybe the roughest now i think this is

tony kemp with the gatorade

and you guys know i like a good gatorade

throw in tony

come on dude you're my height so first

off the a shouldn't have you being the

gatorade guy

second that's just bad form and he's

even going to talk about here it's like

look i should have went

up i should have just went straight up i

tried to go sideways i needed to just go

up this guy's like let me tell you

something you just go up dude

and you know so tony we'll work on that

lauriano just killed a squirrel i think

and i've misinformed you because the

catcher didn't want to look didn't want

to look

but you look because home runs like that

are beautiful

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