#MLBVideos: Blue Jays became 2nd team EVER to go back-to-back to start a Postseason game! 😳 (2002 A’s)

Blue Jays became 2nd team EVER to go back-to-back to start a Postseason game! 😳 (2002 A’s)

baseball down the left and right field lines. Stung into center field. Here comes Hunter and he can’t make the play and it skips all the way by him and all the way to the fence. Durham with good speed. Rounding second, heading for third. Jones picks it up. They’re going to wave him in. He’s trying for it inside the Parker and he gets it. Three. Durham scores the first run of the day for the Oakland A’s. He goes all the way around the bases. Hunter could not make the play on the sinking line drive and it is one to nothing Oakland. Well, that’s a way to cry it quiet down 56,000 or so. That’s for sure. You know, right away the first hitter Durham lines a ball in center field and Tory Hunter, a gold glove center fielder, has to make that decision. Am I going to try to catch this ball or I’m going to let it drop and keep it in front? and he goes for the catch and he gets by him and and Ray Durham with his great speed coming around third going to go for the inside the park homer waving him in. They’re going to feel it first to see if he missed. He did not. So an inside the park home run. There’s a drive by Scott Hatterburg deep to right. Can turning around and that ball is gone. A home run. Back-to- back shots by the Oakland A’s. An inside the Parker and now a solo drive by Scott Hannerburg. And it is two to nothing Oakland. Tony, just an outstanding strategy here by the Oakland A’s and their hitting coach Dad Bosley. You know, with Rick Reed on the mound, he’s not going to walk you. You got to swing the bat. Those are good pitches to hit. And that’s exactly right. The difference being that normally when Rick Reed is throwing strikes, they’re down in the zone. early in the game already. He’s gotten a couple of pitches up and the Oakland A’s are going to be aggressive on balls that are in the strike zone. Here he comes. And off we go in game five with a fast ball that’s hit in the air to deep left field. Called to the track. It’s on on the first pitch of game five. Davis Schneider into George Springer shoes and doing a great impression. How about that? ready for a first pitch fast ball and an ambush to start game five with a bang. That jacket has been super important to the Blue Jays. And ironically, that’s the first solo home run in the World Series by the Blue Jays. A plan and react. And he went up there with a plan to swing and he got rewarded. That’s a that’s a shock. That’s how you get punched on the very first pitch. And now Vlad Jr. hooks a ball down the left field line. They’ve gone back to back to start game five. Three pitches in. Two to nothing Toronto. Wow. You wonder when two heavyweights are going at each other who is going to deliver the first blow. Well, they were ready to hit the fast ball. You felt like Snell was going to establish his fast ball tonight because he didn’t do that in Toronto. And the first two hitters, I don’t know if that’s ever happened in his career where the first two hitters have hit home runs.

With back-to-back home runs by Davis Schneider and Vlad Guerrero Jr. to lead off Game 5 of the World Series, the Toronto Blue Jays became only the second team ever to lead off a Postseason game with back-to-back homers, joining the 2002 A’s who accomplished the feat in Game 3 of the ALDS.

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