Phillies beat the Red Sox on a walk-off catcher's interference, a breakdown
What Happened
In the bottom of the 10th inning, the game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Boston Red Sox is tied. With the Manfred runner on second base, the Phillies try to bunt him over to third base to set up a potential game-winning sacrifice fly. However, the Phillies' hitters are unable to execute the bunt, as the pitches from Red Sox reliever Jordan Hicks are too far outside the strike zone. The Red Sox decide to intentionally walk the Phillies' hitter, loading the bases with one out. Phillies outfielder Edmundo Sosa steps to the plate with the game on the line. Hicks, throwing 100 mph fastballs, tries to overpower Sosa, but the at-bat goes to a full count. On the final pitch, Sosa puts the ball in play, but the home plate umpire calls catcher's interference on Red Sox catcher Reese McGuire. The ball barely grazes the tip of McGuire's glove as Sosa checked his swing, but the umpire rules that it was enough contact to warrant the interference call. With the bases loaded and the winning run on third, the umpires review the play and the call on the field is upheld. The Phillies are awarded the game-winning run and they celebrate a walk-off victory over their AL East rivals. "I hit his glove," Sosa says after the game. "I felt it and I just didn't want to watch the replay. But the umpires made the right call and we got the win." Red Sox manager Alex Cora expresses his disappointment in the outcome, lamenting the series of events that led to the Phillies' victory. "We were just trying to get the force out at home and it all unraveled from there," Cora says. "It's a tough way to lose, but that's baseball sometimes." The Phillies' hard-fought win over the Red Sox, fueled by the controversial catcher's interference call, adds another chapter to the storied rivalry between these two historic franchises.
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Click timestamps to jump to that momentWe got a tie game in the bottom of the 10th inning.
You got the Manfred man on second.
That's the winning run.
So the Phillies are like,
let's just bunt that guy to third and get on our way.
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They're trying to bunt.
Can't bunt that pitch because it's outside.
They say, we're going to give you the out.
Can't bunt that one because it's outside.
2-0 count.
Runner on second.
He's ready to move.
I'm going to get to third.
We're going to score on a sack fly.
Tries to bunt.
Can't bunt that one because it's a ball.
3-0 trying to bunt.
Cannot bunt that pitch.
It's a ball.
Jordan Hicks says, I don't want your bunt.
We want the force.
No, I don't think that's what actually happened.
Now we get whisper galore.
Like, hey man, you want to lay down a bunt?
Don't bunt it if it's a ball.
And they're like, hey, maybe throw slider
and like he'll mess up the bunt.
Just like rip a back foot slider
and see if they try to bunt that.
And he's like, all right, great.
Let's do that.
Back foot slider.
No, you're supposed to do it in front of him.
Now the runners advance anyway without the free out.
The bunt without the bunt.
And Cora says, well, well, well, now we do want the force.
We'll just send that guy.
We want the force out at home.
So we'll send him the first intentionally walk
and just absolutely yanked that one.
Almost did hit his back foot.
Just not in the right way.
So now you got a bad situation.
You got Sosa up.
Base is loaded.
The infield is in.
The winning run is on third.
Is he going to bunt?
Cora's like this.
This ain't good.
Hicks throws really fast.
Strike them all out.
That's a beautiful 100 mile per hour.
Two seamer on the outside.
A little slider off that.
All right.
Now we're pitching.
Oh, and two fastball up.
Don't get the call out of the zone.
One and two.
And then another fastball.
One Oh one sinker high and away.
Fouls it back though.
A little slider off the places.
Hey, I hit his glove.
I hit his glove.
But on that pitch, how he says, all right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
I gotcha.
We'll check on it.
Sure.
How about it?
He's thinking, please don't check.
Topper's like, really this easy.
Okay, cool.
He's thinking, please don't.
Hey guys.
Hey, actually see you guys.
I don't want to watch this with you.
Uh, just watch it on my own.
I've seen it in my head and I felt it.
And I just, Oh boy, bad images, bad vision.
Look at that.
Barely a swing.
Catchers are.
They're putting their gloves so far out these days to steal.
We saw Contreras get his arm broken last year, trying to steal the pitch.
It's so far out that a check swing, he's trying to hold his swing and not swing.
And he still hits the glove.
Like if the glove wasn't there, the umpires rule that no swing.
I'm pretty sure because he's trying and he does hit him in the back of the wrist.
So you have a walk off catchers interference.
After a few, the call in the field is overturned.
There is catchers interference.
Wow.
What a brutal inning.
They were trying to bunt for an out.
You walked them on four pitches, trying to bunt for an out.
You threw a wild pitch, trying to check his swing.
Maybe would have been strike three catchers interference.
And that's how the Red Sox lost this game.
And all they can do is sit in the railing.
Think about it.
Hope it doesn't happen again.
Handshakes for everyone.
Toppers.
Great job guys.
Great job.
Way to, way to, way to pull the bunt back.
Way to pull that bunt back on those balls and that wild pitch.
Awesome stuff.
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Thanks for baseball for always throwing something odd at us.