Bench player says he won't return this historic ball, a breakdown

Create. Juan Soto flashes bunt with the

runner on first, pulls it back. Strike

one, strike two. Was that outside? Maybe

it clipped. That one's high. Two and

two. Strike three. Soto says, "Ah, Ron,

I want to take a look at that." Ron

Kulpa says, "All right. All right, let's

take a look. Fine. Let's take a look.

Here we go."

Boom. Strike. I'm right, you're wrong.

One of my first breakdowns ever. It was

my first non-Yankees breakdown ever is

Ron Kulpa telling the manager of the

Astros, A.J. Hinch, "I can do whatever I

want." That's the type of umpire he is.

You got to love it. He's got an ego.

Now, Bichette comes up. 999 career hits,

a runner on first, two outs, and Lugo's

just pumping strikes. Just filling up

the zone. O2. Top rail, foul back.

Another one in the zone. Ron says, "No."

Catcher says, "I think so, Ron. Think

you botched this one." Ron Kulpa says,

"Okay. All right, you're getting

nervous, aren't you? You're getting

nervous because bam, I'm Ron Kulpa and

you're not." That's a ball. And now, Ron

Kulpa has the freedom to do whatever the

hell he wants. Two calls, two

challenges, two highlights for old Ron.

Show it again. Show them how good I was.

Meanwhile, Bichette sends the breaking

ball back up the middle. Milestone hit

for him and keeps the inning going. Gets

to first base and the first base coach,

like a good guy, is saying, "Hey. Hey,

who's got that ball? Hey, don't throw

that ball away. That's a milestone hit."

Matheny in the Royals dugout, he's like,

"Ah,

I got it."

I have the ball.

It's going to cost you. Yep. Yep. It's

going to cost you.

Pay me some money, I'll give it to you.

Yeah, I'm holding on to this baby. Coach

is like, "Hey, give it to that guy."

He's like, "Oh, okay. All right. Guess

this guy's going to make all my money."

That guy's like, "What do they want?" He

says, "I don't I don't know. They were

calling for it. I have no idea what it

is. It's hit number 1,000." All right,

the inning continues. And now Lindor's

up and that's a ball off and that's

probably a ball in, but Ron Kulpa says,

"I dare you. You've been wrong twice.

You're not challenging me. This zone's

expanded. This game's going quick." The

2-1, right down the middle. The 2-2.

Ooh, he did not go. The 3-2, way high.

Strike three. Challenge it, I dare you.

You want to lose all of yours in the

first inning? Don't think so. Lindor's

like, "Okay." Damn, Lugo is like

And then the play of action. One out

away from getting out of the inning.

Bottom of the first, filling up the

zone. That's a ball out. That Okay,

that's a strike. Anything close.

Anything close. That's put in play.

Lugo's going to be the hero. Bounces it

to first. Oh my god, it gets by him. All

the runners keep going. We're chasing it

down. Caglianone fires it to no one.

The runners are like, "Let's keep

going." Hey, fire it to the catcher. He

wasn't ready. Let's keep going. Bench

has himself a little league home run.

Three errors on one play and the Mets

are laughing. They're young and they're

having fun. Look at this dugout. Lindor

doesn't care he just struck out on a bad

call anymore. He's all smiles. Oh, look

at the smiles in the dugout. It's the

happiest the Mets have been in weeks.

They just gifted us runs. Look at this.

What fools. We're going to win this one.

They just gifted us runs. Not happy.

Lugo's not happy. Like he's like, "Oh,

boy. That stinks." This fan, he's not

really happy, but he's like, "I I'll

take it." Yeah.

I'll take it. Sure, why not?

And he is he looking at me? Oh, hey,

what's up? We got the cameras on me?

Yep, just oh, hey, still look oh, hey.

Okay. Stop spying on me. I'm tired. I

just ran a whole football field. Here's

the play again.

Lugo, off the bump with the quickness.

The off-balance throw, he's going to

bounce it to his first baseman who

misses it.

I mean, it's a tough play, a tough

bounce. This throw by Caglione They call

him Jack because his his initials are J

A C. His name's not Jack. That's like

our good friend Dar. Hey, how about

that? This throw is hilarious. I laugh

every time I watch it. I don't know who

he's throwing it to. I think the

catcher. He just turned and fired and

did not have

any awareness. You know, sometimes

outfielders just turn and fire and

you're like, "Damn, how was he

pinpoint?" He just knows where the bases

are. Jack doesn't. And at this point,

Lugo and Bobby Witt are both telling

him, "Hey, get the out at third. Who

cares about that runner? It's the first

inning. Just throw it." Look, they're

pointing. "Just throw it. Just throw

it."

And he says, "No, man, let's get the out

at home." Catcher's like, "Oh, I was

with them.

I was with them. I thought we were going

to go to third there and that allows

another run to score all the way around

the base paths. And a painful part of

this is Lugo makes a decent play. Like

he he should bounce that ball because

the first baseman has a better chance of

blocking a bounce ball than if he throws

it high or way wide. Like this ball

should be, if not caught, blocked.

And it would have been an out if he

scoops it. I think that gets scooped

more often than not in baseball.

Uh, that's a bummer. And then for it to

unravel

Woo, look at Benge around the bases.

Hustling down first to beat out the

play, beats it out, quickly reads it,

goes to second. He's like, "Great, this

is fun. I'll catch my breath and we're

scoring." He's like, "Oh, should I go

the No, no, no, don't get greedy. No,

no, no, let's do it. Let's do it. Let's

do it. Let's do it. Oh, I should Oh,

okay. Now, oh, wow." And then all the

way home. Crazy. Now, I'm going to catch

my breath and here's a fun visual and

the radio called the play.

>> lineup. The pitch.

Chop softly left side of the mound. Lugo

off the bump, fields off balance little

first. It skips by Caglianone into foul

territory. Ewing had already gotten to

third. He scampers into score the game's

first run. Caglianone throws it wildly

to the backstop. Now, the shortstop to

third takes off for home. Watkins' relay

gets by Jensen all the way off the

backstop. Here comes Bench all the way

around.

>> I like the right fielder Tolbert on this

play. First, he's going to see the throw

and just he can't control his reaction.

He's like, "What the hell was that?" And

then as the play continues, he's just

going to get in front of Jack Caglianone

and be like, "Dude, I'll handle any

other overthrow."

Look how far he runs in. I don't know if

you've seen a play where the right

fielder ends up fielding a ball

basically in the infield. That's the

right fielder who ends up with the ball

right there. I don't know if you'll see

that. I don't know. And to make it sting

even worse, the very next inning the

Mets say, "Watch how it's done." Senga

to Young, basically the same play. And

they get it done. Now, the difference is

you got the first baseman for the Mets,

he switches his feet, Young, and I don't

even know what's I think

Caglianone is more

normal, but he misses it. He's going

backhand. You got glove on different

hands and Young for the Mets lets the

ball travel. The bounce that Senga gave

was way

shorter and less of a short hop, but

very similar plays, different results.

So, the Mets finally catch a break.

They get gifted some runs. Surely they

go on

to win and not get embarrassed for once.

Ah.

Damn.

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