The Rays walk off on a wild pitch, a breakdown

What Happened

The Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays are in a scoreless tie in the top of the seventh inning. The Rays' center fielder, Kevin Kiermaier, leads off the inning with a double. Kiermaier makes a great defensive play in the field, scooping up a ground ball and firing a perfect throw home to cut down a runner at the plate and preserve the tie. In the bottom of the ninth inning, the score is still 0-0. Boston reliever Matt Barnes is on the mound, facing Tampa Bay's Randy Arozarena. Arozarena laces a single to left field, giving the Rays a baserunner with two outs. Catcher Christian Vázquez tries to pick off Arozarena at first base, but his throw gets past the first baseman, allowing Arozarena to advance to third. Up next is Tampa Bay's Joey Wendle, whose brothers used to play abusive pranks on him growing up. The Red Sox intentionally walk Wendle, putting the winning run on base. On the next pitch, the ball gets away from Vázquez, allowing Arozarena to scamper home and give the Rays a walk-off victory. "Uh-oh, spaghettio," says the announcer, as Arozarena celebrates with his teammates. Arozarena tries to evade the traditional Gatorade shower, dancing around his teammates, but he ultimately gets doused. "He does not want to get wet," the announcer notes, as Arozarena allows his teammates to pour just a little bit of the liquid on his head. This thrilling finish caps off a tightly contested pitcher's duel between the division rivals. The loss is a tough one for the Red Sox, who had several defensive miscues in the late innings. But the Rays' resilience and late-game heroics secure them a dramatic walk-off victory in front of their home fans.

it's top seven boston versus tampa bay

tampa bay doesn't have a hit yet in this

game red sox don't have much offense

going either as it's zero zero

but that's a lead off double kirmyer

corrals it

he's at second base the red sox have

things

happening hot shot to third base and

joey wendell makes the grab

because joey wendell is tough as nails

because joey wendell grew up with

abusive

brothers brothers used to take the dog's

shot collar and put it around my neck

and then like one would grab my feet and

one would grab my arms and they would

like swing me across the

underground fence line i remember one

time my brother like threw tacks in the

shower when i was taking a shower and

then turned out the lights so that i'd

like step on the tacks mostly fun stuff

like that i mean i

i would always try to get them back but

i was always smaller and weaker just

normal brother pranks making your feet

bleed in the dark shower

anyway that one's in play and this will

surely score a run kirmire with the nice

pick and scoop renfro digging for home

absolutely beautiful

perfect throw from kiermeier i mean you

got to take a look at the replay here

oh here's pavetta the red sox pitcher is

excited get down get home get home get

home get home get home

okay i guess i'll just collect myself

and get ready to go out and protect

the tie again damn was excited kiramire

a little self clap hell yeah good job by

love it nice pick on the little short

hop there comes up fire and it's

as perfect as a throw can get i think

he gets him on the arm because they

reviewed this and from that angle

you could think he got in there but i

think from this angle i think right

there

they're saying contact on the arm and

he's out

score stays zero zero but red sox still

have a runner on second they got the

catcher vasquez and look at the lead

he's taking

the rays are kind of in a shift but

vazquez is just dancing off the back i

don't know if they had a hit and run

going on and that's why he's going in

motion or he knows he's slow so he's

just trying to get the biggest secondary

lead he can

but he does it again on that swing and

the catcher just

tosses him out you're out vamos almost

follows

i think that's what he's saying could be

anything i don't know spanish

but i tried my hardest look at this look

at that lead he's just bolting i think

it's because

i don't know what it is maybe he thought

he could steal third because no one's

covering third maybe it was a

hit-and-run because the guy's swinging

i don't know bad bass running all around

maybe that's what it is maybe we just

chalk it up as bad base running

anyway if that flips the inning over

we're gonna go bottom of the ninth

there's two outs already

barnes is pitching and there's a

fastball up top and i don't think he's

gonna throw another fastball this count

a little glove inside that's got a sharp

break to it

but he says hey my arm my arm my arm

that's also a good pitch

but now margo's seen it should probably

go back to the fastball throws the same

pitch again

smacks it into left field now the rays

have a base runner

it's okay it's okay we'll get through

this tough as nails joey wendell's up

his brothers used to put the dog shot

collar on him and

throw him over the fence nice stop there

by catch and he's checking on the runner

and they're checking on the runner a lot

because he's just gonna steal

and an error on the throw lets him go to

third but this is kind of cool i don't

think this mattered

i don't think this mattered but it's

cool

the throw is kind of there the short hop

doesn't get made and then it

ricochets off the helmet and points way

up in the air i think he was going to

third whether it hit the helmet or not

but kind of cool that it is and they

just walk joey wendell like screw it

let's walk them they come out say like

all right let's throw some strikes

whatever you do don't throw a wild pitch

make sure this guy doesn't leave third

base nice pitch there for strike

one now he's gonna try and get the chase

swing he gets hit

it gets away from catch and that's how

the rays

win the ball game uh-oh

spaghettio three bad plays in a row by

vasquez

red sox catcher i like that hesitated

celebration there by margot like that's

the winning run everyone should be

jumping on him but he's like come on

guys come on and then they celebrate

and then he's going to see very soon

that wow has the water and he does not

want to get wet

so he recognizes him right here now he's

going to dance away he's going to dance

away

he's going to dodge again uh they're

gonna try and hold him franco's trying

to hold him and

complete miss great evasion gets the

cameraman

right in the pants he's soaking wet does

he act hurt no

plays through it grabs the pictures

margot says okay you can dump the tiny

little bit

of the rest on my head that'll actually

feel refreshing

but great job by him scooting around the

bases then using the speed to evade the

water bottle toss

as well safe at home

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