Dodgers C Will Smith Doesn’t Fault Blue Jays’ IKF for That Short 3rd Base Lead | The Rich Eisen Show

Dodgers C Will Smith Doesn’t Fault Blue Jays’ IKF for That Short 3rd Base Lead | The Rich Eisen Show

When you look back on this World Series, what what do you think of Will? Oh man, there were there were so many good moments. Um, but I think just as a whole, you know, you talking to, you know, I was at the MLB award show, the golf tournament, talking to all those guys this past weekend. Um, everyone just kept talking about how like incredible the series was. It was just back and forth. you know, we had the 18 inning game. Uh, you know, seven games, that’s an extra innings. Uh, it was just so back and forth. Such good baseball played between, you know, two really good teams. Um, but yeah, I’m just I’m just happy we won it. You know, that would have really been tough going seven and losing it. But, uh, yeah, that was that was a really good Blue Jays team and, you know, it was just a really fun series to be a part of. Well, I mean, there’s so many questions to ask you. Uh, the first one though is about you. Uh, what is it like to catch 74 innings in a week and a half, Will? I was I was a little worn out. Um, yeah, that that 18 inning game, that took a lot out of me. That was that was a grind. Then coming back, having to catch the next two days after that was was tough. Um, you know, we were doing everything, IVs, uh, just a lot of treatment, just try to keep the legs under you, but uh, you know, everybody was grinding. um you know, their guys were too. So, it was just who could kind of gut it out and, you know, stick to it and keep going. Yeah. Because again, I was going to ask you because obviously you’re you’re still a young man, 30 years old. Um but catching and being able to hit and catch in a World Series is such a challenge. And then 74 innings, man. Um I I I you probably set a record. I don’t know the I know there was a World Series longer. I didn’t look it up. I don’t know if the catcher caught every single moment of that World Series. You potentially set a record, Will, you know. Yeah, I think so. That’s what I was told and stuff and saw. Um, but yeah, it’s it’s just crazy, you know. It’s just a lot of a lot of work throughout the year in the offseason to, you know, have to have the strong legs and all that and be able to, you know, not let it really affect me too much. All right, so let’s get to the moment uh uh in of truth, the seventh game of this World Series. Uh the ball is hit to Miguel Rojos. The infield is in. Isaiah Connor Falefa is just out of your field of vision to your left. The play goes to Rojos. Walk me through cuz I’m sitting at home thinking this series is over because the way that he collect cor collected it, coralled it, and threw to you I thought was too late. What was that like from your vantage point, Will? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, you’re kind of preparing before the pitch is thrown. You have to hit to whoever. um you’re you’re hoping maybe you have time to turn a double play or something. Um but as soon as it was hit, you know, he he took a drop step. Um you knew it wasn’t going to be a double play, so then I just turned into a first baseman there. Just make sure you get one out and uh yeah, luckily my foot stayed down enough. Um but that was that was a little hairy for a couple seconds when they replayed it, but uh got the out, moved on, and got the game going. Well, that was my question for you is what was going through your mind while the entire World Series, your ability to potentially repeat the entire season was in a replay machine. Yeah, I I was pretty sure, you know, the throw beat him and everything. Um, didn’t realize my foot came off at all uh for, you know, that half inch or whatever. Um, so I was pretty confident they replayed it. you know, we get two replays in the postseason. So, you know, usually that first one they just kind of throw out there is like a maybe, maybe not. Who cares? We still have the second replay. Um, so I kind of thought that’s what was going on. And then it plays on Jumbotron and, you know, I see my foot come off and it’s like, oh crap, here we go. Like I can’t imagine ending our season this way. You know, it’s a little bit of panic. Um, but I was I was pretty confident after seeing the replay that he was going to be out. The call was going to stand. And uh did you notice so much conversation will uh about um Isaiah Kiner Ferf’s secondary lead uh not being as large as he wished or the Blue Jays subsequently wished it could have been. Did you notice pre pitch from Yamamoto that he was kind of even with Max Muny at the time? Did you notice any of that prior to the pitch? Yeah. Yeah, I noticed. Um, you know, we were Muny and I are always kind of looking maybe for a back pick right there or something. Usually that’s with just the man on third Elon, but uh, you know, he’s got to stay close cases a back pick a line drive. Um, he can’t get, you know, more than much. That’s that’s just typical baseball oneonone on that. Um, but yeah, that’s just that’s just a tough spot, you know, uh, to lose to come up, you know, a couple inches short. But, uh, I don’t think he did anything wrong. It was just that’s just how it had to be. Okay. Cuz that’s been a large conversation. Um and then as if you you thought maybe your heart rate couldn’t get any faster than the next pitch. Yep. Right. Uh or the next batter. Yeah. Yeah. Clement Ernie, you know, putting that ball out there. Pes and Kik running into each other. It was Yeah. That was a little hairy for a second, too. So what was and again you don’t have the best seat in the house for that but what was your perspective from buying home plate for this moment that we have on the screen right here will yeah I you know I think Kik I don’t know if he was playing a little shallower than normal cuz taking away a little blue pit um you know make him burn you over your head but uh I I thought it was Kik’s ball the whole way um just where it was hit you know I’m kind of watching Kik and I wasn’t I wasn’t too confident that first couple seconds um that he was going to get all the way back there. Uh yeah, then Pah just kind of came out of nowhere and and took it from him and there Yeah, there’s the picture and it was I mean, what a play by Andy. That was, you know, neat. If the ball drops at all, it’s it’s game over. Well, I mean, let let’s talk about coming out of nowhere, Will. Um because he did come out of nowhere in the middle of the inning out of the dugout and you know again you performed well extremely well terrifically well uh from the two- hole after being moved around in the lineup with Mookie being dropped down from two to three and then three to four and then you’re inserted in the two- hole from which you hit the ultimately game-winning home run. Um Rojos is in it second. The reason why there’s even a bottom of the ninth is because he homers. Hey, you made it all the way to the end. Thanks for that. Check us out every single day streaming live on Disney Plus and the ESPN app 12 to 3 Eastern.

Dodgers catcher Will Smith and Rich Eisen revisit the craziest moments from the wild 2025 World Series including the play at the plate that came inches away from deciding the series in favor of the Blue Jays.

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