Near-grand slam ➡️ double play? Brewers get out of BASES-LOADED JAM with a MIRACLE! 😱 (Full inning)
Pat, you knew Quinn was your bulk guy. What does that look like? How long can he go? I think he’ll get him about 85 pitches. He looks great. So, we’re happy about it. He bounced back really good after a start versus Chicago and pleased with it. And Blake in such a rhythm. How do you disrupt it? You got to disrupt it. You got to try to do something. He looks really sharp. Thanks, Pat. Thank you. And thanks to Pat Murphy, secondyear Milwaukee manager. He was Craig Council’s longtime bench coach with the Brewers before he finally got his chance in his late 60s. He gets a chance. He wins manager of the year last year. And as he told us earlier, most importantly, he survived managing Jeff Franor in the minor leagues. What was that? 2014 Frenchie. It was the El Paso Chihuahua. I mean, what a combo in the in the Chihuahua. You guys actually got thrown out of a game together, which is a nice memory. Do they still have the cheerleaders on top of the dugouts there in El Paso? Absolutely. Yeah, they had everything there. He’s done just about everything you can do. Legendary college coach came to notoriety at Notre Dame and then Arizona State as Tascar Hernandez walks on four pitches to start the fourth inning. So, a man on for the Dodgers to start the fourth with Freeman coming up. Don’t want to miss a postseason game? Just tell Siri, “Show me the upcoming MLB schedule.” Prester facing Freddy Freeman. Now, one thing I like about Merv too, guys, was he was he admitted to us today when he took over that intern job in San Diego. I wasn’t ready. I didn’t know the big league game. And I know he credits Dave Roberts a lot on that staff helping him out. Murphy was the AAA manager with the Padres’s when that went down. Bud Black let go. Dave Roberts was on the big league staff with the Padres’s. So those two were together briefly and through the years in the Padre system, but briefly in the major leagues. Freddy Freeman into left field. Collins on the run. Collins on the track. Leaps and makes the catch. Retreating as Hernandez may have a play. No play. Terang eats it. Isaac Collins with a terrific play in left field and the first defensive gym of this game. That ball carried by Oh, big time. And let me tell you, when you haven’t played really in a playoff game yet and in left field here, that’s the hardest ball, right? When you’re in left field and that left-hander hits, it’s tailing away from you and it keeps going. Watch how even he took his eye off it for a second to look at the wall, turned around and made the catch and big play. He has not played left field in two weeks. His last start was September 28th in the regular season. Will Smith first ball swinging. He fouls it back. Watching Collins go to the fence for a brief second, you could see what panic looks like for an outfielder. And then you give the I had it the whole time. Smith coming back from the hand fracture and he sends that one back up the middle in a base hit. Hernandez will stop at second. Will Smith, he has been swinging early in counts. First two games of the division series, Smith did not start. He’s coming back for the fractured hand. They tried to get his legs under him. Freni is a catcher getting him four or five innings, but he has now started the last three games in this postseason. He has. And you know, Ronnie and I were talking before the game and I said, “Well, Smith swing looks good. The power’s not there, I don’t think, back yet with kind of the wrist and what he’s been through, but he had his best year of his career this year offensively. Big scoring chance for the Dodgers now in the four. Tommy Edmond on the first pitch. Line drive center field. That’s down a base hit. They’re going to hold up Hernandez. So Tommy Edmond in ambush mode and the Dodgers have the bases loaded in the fourth. A walk in two singles. And LA with their best chance. And that’s going to draw Chris Hook, the Milwaukee pitching coach, out for a mound visit. Well, on that first pitch, off kind of off the end of the bat, and Teay Oscar didn’t read it correctly. He thought it might stay up long enough, so he paused and froze, and that kept him from scoring. Yeah. too. You got to remember, you know, Sal Freelick playing in center field. Got a great arm. If that’s anybody else usually, I think you might push the envelope a little bit and he hasn’t played a lot of center so maybe a little more conservative play than you’d usually get. They are loaded up with one out in the Dodger fourth. Maxy coming up. A reminder that your team, your players, your postseason, you can follow all the postseason action. Download the MLB app. The number one app for live baseball. Big chance early for LA. Quinn Prester in his third inning. Max my walked in the second off Prester. Now you’re getting into the second time around against this right-hander. You know what’s interesting, guys? The double play depth that you see from the Brewers. Bryce Terang really has moved over into that hole trying to eat up that hole because Muny gets a lot of base hits on the ground in that situation. Rester is a ground ball pitcher. Brewer set up for two and Muny skies one to center field. Hit well. This one’s got a chance. Fel going back to the wall. He leaps. It’s in and out of his glove, but he caught it. And now chaos on the bases. Might have a play at the plate. The throw not in time. No, he’s out. He’s out. It’s a force play at the plate and he is out. All of this is going to be reviewed it. It’s only a force play if he didn’t catch it. Catch it. I don’t think they know. Also, did he leave early? Once it hits the glove, you can leave the base. It hits the wall. It’s a force play then. It’s the first play. It’s going to be a force play. It’s no catch. It hits the wall off his glove. And now it’s a force play at home. Let’s see. And the throw beat him. So you’re going to have bases loaded in two outs. Three outs cuz Contras ran to third. He ran to third for another force. For another force. Wow. I mean, the catch was the second out. Out at the plate would be the third out. No catchy part. No catch. Force play and then the play at third. Wow. What a play. What a wild play. The guys, the guys in Chelsea, their heads are exploding. Called on the field was safe. Tonight’s replay review. Power by Zoom. Now that ball glanced off the wall, which kept it live. Crew chief is James Hoy. The last, this is crazy. two seasons, this Brewers team has a knack for stealing home runs or getting it back in play. So, right here, that’s going to be your force play at home. Yeah. Live ball first of all. That’s your second out. That’s your second out. And then you said Contrus ran to third. Yes. Ran to third. Just easy. Pretend it’s a one hopper to the center fielder. Throws it to the plate. This is the sequence here. So, now keep your eye on Will Smith at second. You know the out at the plate is good. That’s a force. Here’s the out now. Contras goes to keep an eye on that cuz now we got to get a better Yeah, he was to beat Smith. You saw Smith jogging. So if that’s the case, two outs and out of the double play. That’s one of the craziest plays you’ve ever seen. Remember Ortiz’s throw right on the money. Something on it. Absolutely. And right here you can see, look at Joey Ortiz telling him, “Give me the ball. Come here and step on third.” That’s going to be your third out. Durban, Caleb Durban, the third baseman, knows it the whole way. This is James Hoy as they work this out in New York. Waiting on the word from New York how to adjudicate this. Did we see what did the umpire out in the outfield said? I I didn’t see that because they usually Oh, the same after view. The call on the field. The force out at home plate is confirmed. The runner is out. The confirmed on the runner at third baseman, the force out is out. Wow. Wa wow. What what Dave Roberts is going to argue is that even though there was a force out at home, no one signal to where their base runners could go. It’s going to go 8 6 2 unassessed to third. One of the wildest plays in baseball playoff history right there. Unreal double play and the Brewers are out of this inning. What? We are back at it here as we go to the bottom of the fourth. The whole lot to unpack. A giant suitcase. Let’s look at the left field line right here. Chad Fairchild, this umpire. Watch when the ball hits right here. Okay, you see him. He starts going safe. S safe. Great call by Chad Fairchild, guys. So, he’s letting you know right there. That’s not a catch. If he would have said out, it would have changed. It would have changed and you would have had bases loaded and two outs, no runs. But because he got it, credit Chad Fairchild. Great job there seeing that ball touch the wall. That was unbelievable. I’ve never seen anything like that. I mean, from 225 ft away, he made the correct call. And then the Brewers with their defensive greatness were able to get that ball in and get a force play at home. Crazy. Never seen anything like it myself. Jackson Cheerio leading off this inning. Not to mention South Fre goes up, maybe saves either a double or a grand slam. That’s right. And because it glanced off the wall before he recaught the ball, that’s why it’s noted out. That made that a live ball in that moment. Incredible. Well, one of the best third base coaches around. You said it, Lonnie. Dino Evil was telling Kay Oscar Hernandez to go. He knew that that ball had hit the wall and he’s one of the best. He’ll be Team USA’s third base coach. I read his lips right there. He I was telling him to go, go, go. Tio bounces one foul. [Applause] Will Smith is This is from base cam here. He’s saying get back. Yeah, Will Smith telling Tommy Edmond to go back to first. He thought it was a catch. Full count. Cheerio on the ground. Foul down the line. I mean, this game never disappoints this game of baseball. You see things in this game. You guys have been around it. We’ve been doing playoff baseball on TBS for 19 years now. I’ve never seen anything like that play.
The Brewers turn one of the MOST remarkable double plays you will EVER see to end the 4th inning against the Dodgers during Game 1 of the NLCS on October 13, 2025.
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21 comments
Bad base running by the Dodgers. I hope they learn from this. There's no way Hernandez should've been beaten by a throw. A running on 3rd has to assume a sacrifice fly, so he should've stayed on the bag until the ball hits the glove and then take off, but he had to double back. Then, the Dodgers runners didn't seem to know what was going on, neither did the 1st and 3rd base coaches. After the play at home, the runners should've known it was not a catch, and could've advanced while the Brewers were making the play at home. Dodgers are supposed to be a well-coached, disciplined team, but not this time.
Teoscar, once again, doesn't hustle on the bases. This is why the Dodgers didn't score a run.
@CloseCallSports Where are you?!?!?!?
It always has to be Teo…
I was at this game and Iet me tell you the fans was going crazy! What a game
And to think the braves said Contreras wouldn’t be a good catcher AA just lives off that one WS
Dodgers still win.
Nice job by the umps. All on the same page
That was insane!
Will telling edmans go back, third base coach telling teo go go go. Lol. Remember, that's not a catch, it hit the wall.
How did Contreras know it wasn't a touch play?
Did he see the outfielder drop the ball from his glove and hit the wall?
Even after this the Dodgers still won the game….unbelievable.
Umps blew this call from the start. Terrible.
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8:29 Contreras running to second just in case 😂
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Can someone give me the scorecard ruling of this?
Been watching playoff baseball and 150 brewers games a year since the late 90s. Craziest play I have ever seen in MLB. Was jaw dropping to experience it live at the stadium. Unfortunately, will be a bit of a foot note after Blake Snell dominated us in route to the Dodgers win
I think you could live to be 500 years old and never see another play like that ever again. The combination of unlikely factors that had to all come together at the same time in order for that scenario to play out…. is rather remarkable. That is one of the rarest of the rare plays you will ever see.
Hernandez should’ve tagged and taken off as soon as the ball hit the glove …it doesn’t matter if he catches it or not, as soon as the ball touches his glove, he’s clear to run home. Hernandez retreating caused Smith to retreat tell Edman to retreat. Had Hernandez tagged and ran hard, and Smith tagged at second then the cut off man would’ve thrown to third to try to get Smith. If that happens then Edman probably would’ve tagged at first and made it to second. The funny part then would be that all three runners would have thought they were tagging up in advancing, but really they didn’t need to tag up. You could see from Smith and Edman’s perspective that they would believe that the ball was juggled and caught. Hernandez is the only one that might be able to have seen the ball bounce off the wall. Either way he shouldn’t of retreated that’s what caused the double play.
Incredible events. Dodgers still won the game though.