Game 1 of the World Series had so many fun moments, a breakdown
What Happened
In Game 1 of the 2022 World Series between the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies, the game is tied 5-5 in the bottom of the ninth inning. Jose Altuve steps up to the plate for the Astros with a 1-2 count. Altuve pops up a ball that drops in front of Phillies outfielder Brandon Marsh, who was playing shallow in a "no doubles" defensive alignment. Altuve, thinking the ball would be caught, jogs to first base instead of running hard out of the box, potentially costing the Astros a chance at a double. With Altuve now on first base, he quickly steals second. The call on the field is safe, and after a brief replay review, the call stands. This puts the go-ahead run in scoring position for the Astros. Phillies outfielder Nick Castellanos, who had been playing shallow, now has to move closer to the infield to try to throw out Altuve at home if the ball is hit to him. In the top of the 10th inning, Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto steps up to the plate against Astros pitcher Luis Garcia. Garcia's unusual pre-pitch routine, where he "rocks the baby" with his glove, seems to throw off Realmuto. Garcia mixes his fastball and cutter effectively, getting ahead in the count 1-2. On the 3-2 pitch, Garcia goes back to the fastball, and Realmuto is able to poke it over the fence for a go-ahead solo home run. "That's a big pitch in the game," Realmuto says afterwards. "I was just trying to battle and put the ball in play." The Phillies now lead 6-5 as they bring in their closer, David Robertson, to face the heart of the Astros' order - Yordan Alvarez, Alex Bregman, and Kyle Tucker. Robertson battles each hitter, mixing his fastball, curveball, and cutter effectively. He escapes the jam, striking out Bregman and getting Tucker to fly out, preserving the Phillies' one-run lead. "Robertson really stepped up there," Phillies manager Rob Thomson says. "That was a huge moment to hold that lead." The Phillies hold on to win Game 1 of the World Series, 6-5, taking an early series lead over the defending champion Astros.
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Click timestamps to jump to that momentgame one of the World Series is maybe
one of my favorite games of baseball I
watched in a while Astros fans are in
prayer it's bottom ninth tied up at five
there's like seven or eight tiny little
moments in this that probably could have
deserved their own breakdown and maybe
I'll do micro versions of this later on
but I kind of want to just do the whole
end of the game so altuve's up he's got
a one-two count and he just spoils that
pitch then 89 miles per hour pops it up
but the problem is the Phillies were in
no doubles defense and it drops in front
of them
the only problem there is Altuve thought
he didn't get it that good and it was an
easy out so he doesn't run Hard Out of
the Box just puts his head down and jogs
Marsh was playing deep
they're in no doubles defense and then
you can see let's watch it again watch
his first steps up top they're back back
oh in in in in so he got a bad read on
it also playing no doubles because you
don't want a runner in scoring position
which is second base so tube doesn't run
out the box could have been a double
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altuve's got a makeup for not being on
second base with that hit so he's Off to
the Races he steals and they rule him
safe everyone's like what the hell is
that topper like let's review this why
not the ball hits altuve's leg then goes
into segura's glove
it's incredible how close this play is
and it's interesting so it all right
so first baseman it's a very weird Rule
and you wouldn't think this is the rule
but when you're at first base
it's not when the ball hits the back of
the glove the rule is it's when the ball
enters the glove which is super strange
if that's the same rule here on this
play then you would think he's out
because the ball has entered the glove
right now but I think his foot hasn't
touched the base shutter at least not
enough to make impact because look as I
scroll forward one frame by frame the
base looks like it gets hit there where
it starts kind of getting cushioned and
by that point the ball's in his glove
crazy play I have no idea the exact rule
I just know in first base that counts as
in the glove right there now are we
positive he doesn't have a spike on the
base no I didn't think there was any
chance they were going to overturn this
but it would have been pretty big
because it's a go-ahead run on second
base
and it's just it's incredible that
Segura held on to that ball there's
another angle it's as close as it can
get so because you can't tell for sure
if he's on the base or not and it's so
close and it was ruled safe on the field
everyone was pretty positive they were
just going to rule this as safe and they
say yep
the call stands the runner is safe so
they're not confirmed but it stands so
now with the runner on second they were
playing no doubles defense right but now
there's a runner on second so you can
see schwarber say hey hey we got to get
this guy at home now play in play in and
cast the Allison right feels like what
oh move in okay and per the data he
moved 20 feet eventually he walks 20
feet closer because now instead of no
doubles defense it's we got to throw
this guy out at the plate if the ball's
in front of us we got to come up
throwing
and look what happens just a chain of
events the ball is hit it's a bloop 65
catch probability Castellanos comes down
with it because he moved a little closer
because Altuve got to second
after not getting to second because of
the defense and it's just this whole
Tangled weapon look at his eyes look at
the focus crazy locked in bam till it's
in his glove then he goes Turtle back
the pitcher has a weird reaction to me
at first I got here he sees that it's
caught right here and then he just looks
back home and then he looks back and
maybe he's like still upset about the
other one landing and then he's like all
right I'll react accordingly good catch
good catch all right so to the top of
the Tenth Inning Luis Garcia is in when
I was a little bitty baby my mama would
Rock Me In The Cradle he rocks his glove
like a like a baby before he pitches he
spikes that pitch that's like his
secondary pitch then dots a 98 mile per
hour fastball then rocks the baby rocks
the baby and he's gonna throw
his cutter I'm guessing that's a cutter
off the fastball so real Muto sees this
pitch this is the second Pitch fastball
right in there doesn't really agree with
the um's call but now he has to protect
that spot and Garcia says I'm gonna go
right back to that spot but with the
cutter
and that's what it looks like the two of
them together
and
and he thinks he's protecting the same
fastball nope cut fastball all right so
the count is now one and two two strikes
he goes back to that pitch spikes it
again
then he goes back to that pitch it's
spiked again and now real mudo's
thinking all right he hasn't thrown that
for a strike he hasn't thrown it in the
zone once but he did throw that fastball
for a strike so he's probably gonna come
fast while he's locked in this kid's
locked in licking his teeth nervous
energy 3-2 pitch big pitch in the game
goes fastball 98 outside again and
romuto pokes it right over the fence for
the go ahead home run the bench is going
crazy Rhys Hoskins and Marsh do their
handshake which is like
up get up yeah
ah let's go schwarber's excited this
little kid let's go and that guy's like
ah you're just a little kid
so the Phillies are up one run
and they got the meat of their order up
they got Jordon Alvarez scary bregman
scary Tucker Two home runs in this game
and D Rob on the bump
and this was the scariest pitching I see
who opens them up
curveball and he hits it a billion miles
per hour foul then fastball hard of the
plate that's a pitch if your urine on
Alvarez you're like what why didn't I
hit that then he gives it to him again
94 fastball outside but Center that's a
pitch eurodon puts right to left field
Crawford boxes
and he missed it all right outside with
the curveball and then the 94 fastball
again Robertson's scaring the [ __ ] out
of me probably scaring the [ __ ] out of
every
Phillies fan
an Astros fan scared too towel face all
right one two goes to the curveball gets
him to swing over it nice block JT now
if you're thinking why is he swinging at
that why do they always chase well he
got so many fastballs in the zone and
then finally he gets the curveball which
decides to just Dart down
instead of stay straight
and D Rob gets him but now bregman's up
and he's gonna go all
that was scary all sliders or Cutters
curveballs all breaking stuff and
bragman's off balance off balance and
then finally sits on one throws it up
against the
schwarber can't get it just Out Of Reach
so now once again they have the runner
on second they're scaring the pitcher
[Applause]
uh ball tying run on second Tucker up
swings huge at that breaking ball 1-1
you can see the difference in swing here
so he's going to get a breaking ball
this is the 1-0 swings huge at it tries
to hit his third home run of the night
the next pitch
a little more contained but he fouls it
back doesn't get it but you can see he's
a little more contained than the first
one now the one two
fastball down in the zone and look what
D Rob does after he throws this fastball
down
oh spins like oh I missed my spot
I just heard a story about how Maddox
would scream
like he missed a spot
even though he didn't miss a spot and
what and what it would do is the batter
would think oh
he didn't execute that pitch he missed
his spot he's probably gonna try and do
it again but hit his spot
and Maddox was just [ __ ] with them
and playing head games by faking like
damn and screaming now I'm not saying
that's what D Rob's doing here because
it's probably not because not everyone
is Maddox
but that is cool that picture some
pictures or maybe just Maddox did that
stuff because he spins like oh
if only I executed that fastball and
maybe Tucker's thinking okay he wanted
that fastball he's probably gonna come
fastball again
and he goes curveball Tucker looks
absolutely fooled and Strikes Out
now there's two outs
there's a there's the overlay of those
two pitches not even that crazy of an
overlay but there's two outs Astros fans
are getting worried
uriel's up and he crushes inside
pitching
so drob is just gonna stay outside he
does not want guriel to turn on a ball
and put it in the left field so it's
just outside and this is the most
careful he's pitched to anyone this
inning which I was a little surprised
like Uriel got the most respect after
going through the other three guys
and now let Miss Diaz that was first
name is pronounced comes up
and maybe this is its own breakdown but
it's so much happens here and first
d-rob
spikes the curveball and it hits off the
plate
so real Muto can't block it he's one of
the best defensive catchers he can't
block it and that means the runners move
up so now the tying run is on third base
which is the closest base the home plate
which means if he spikes another one in
the dirt like that and it gets past
ryomuto the game is tied sometimes this
takes away the breaking balls in the
dirt because you got to really trust
your catcher or just trust that nothing
weird is going to happen like it hits
the plate so what's D Rob do now he
throws the curve again but way up high
oh doesn't want to spike it Aiming High
Diaz is like I wish that hit me
almost tried to turn into it even
so close it made his jersey wiggle the
breeze or maybe did it hit his jersey I
don't know they didn't call it hit by
pitch and then he comes up top with the
breaking ball again
hits him in the elbow but the um says
get back here [ __ ] lean right into it
and dear I was like thank you blue thank
you he is like what he's like you you
did that on purpose
and yeah he did that on purpose he's
like oh I wanted the last one to hit me
in retrospect I'll just put my elbow pad
right into this one it's not gonna hurt
because I'm padded up
that sucks sucks to see that with a pad
on it's a pretty soft move but
trying to win or he like they don't even
need a runner on first base they need a
single they need to score the Run
loading the bases up doesn't do much
just passes the Baton so it's like be a
hero dude try to swing the bat get on
base
instead
it's a bad look
now that doesn't count as a strike
though the umpires say it would have
been a ball so it's a 3-0 count and this
dude's looking for a walk I mean he's
this dude he just wants to get the first
base so you'd think he wouldn't swing
3-0 because just take the pitch
hopefully it's a ball
somehow D Rob and real Muto kind of call
the bluff there and they're like let's
go curveball and he swings way over it's
like oh now you now you want to be the
hero and swing big
so 3-1 count drap gets that curveball
again and again curveball
in the dirt so so the defensive
replacement throws it the first and the
Phillies win the game and hang on
yeah
let's go boy
castianos runs in I black on point had
the big catch the inning earlier
got to get comfy rips his jersey up
untucks it
there was so
much
cool stuff that happened to anything
that I made a long video about it I
apologize if you're like just do the
short ones well I can splice it up and
put out some short ones of some some
smaller moments but that was wild
there's so much stuff that was my
favorite baseball game of the season I
think