Rich Eisen’s Epic Recap of the Dodgers-Blue Jays EPIC World Series’ Final Two Games

Rich Eisen’s Epic Recap of the Dodgers-Blue Jays EPIC World Series’ Final Two Games

Christopher, when we uh previously on the Rich Eisen Show, the what’s more likely Friday subject matter, one of the things you threw at me prior to the weekend was what’s more likely there’ll be a game seven in the World Series or a 1 in7 team in the NFL will beat a Los Angeles team. Yes, sir. I chose game seven of the World Series. Almost turned out to be both with the plucky Tennessee Titans. Yeah, so close. scoring on special teams and on defense on the Chargers early on in that game, but the Chargers pulled it out. But the reason why I thought there would be a game seven is because who the Dodgers were throwing in game six, Yoshobu a Yamamoto, who had thrown complete games in his previous two playoff outings. And sure enough, Yamamoto showed up in Toronto in game six, dominant. Six innings pitched, five hits, one earned run, one walk, six strikeouts, 96 pitches, 63 of them for strikes. And sure enough, the offense and the runs sufficient enough for Yamamoto to hand the lead off to his bullpen were provided by a guy who was so down and out. He was just so honest about his struggles and it was Mookie Bits. Sure enough, this is how good he is and also how good Dave Roberts is as the manager of the Dodgers is he’s so good he’s hitting 130 and he gets dropped from two to three in the order and then for game six he gets dropped to fourth in the order. How about Dave Roberts saying this guy can’t hit a lick right now and he’s down on himself but I’m gonna hit him cleanup. I’m gonna have him protect Freddy Freeman in the lineup. And sure enough, who steps to the plate in the third inning with runners in scoring position with a base hit? Mookie bets his first RBI, his first RBI’s at all since game two of the NLCS span of eight games. And um this game six was kind of feeling unlike the previous wild games. It’s, you know, Yamamoto’s getting the people up and getting down in order. And this game’s three to one after the Blue Jays got one run in response to the three spot for the Dodgers. And it’s three to one going into the, you know, later stages of the game. And Roki Sasaki gave us a little bit of of a pulse check in the eighth inning. Two on, one out. Got out of that. This game’s not going to be like any of those other crazy games, is it? Until the ninth inning. Oh my goodness gracious. So, Sasaki hits Alejandro Kirk to start the ninth right on his hand. And sure enough, John Schneider does what he has to do because Kirk’s not going to be able to score on anything in the gap, right? So, he puts in Miles Straw who runs like Xavier Worthy at the combine. And sure enough, Addison Barger hits one to the gap. And I’ve never seen this before. The ball hits like a highlight chulo right in the crease where the Oh, look at that photo. Padding of the wall meets the warning track. And Justin Dean, who just got substituted into center field for Tommy Edmond by Dave Roberts, raises his arms up saying, “This is a dead ball. It’s like little league.” And Straw, who’s inserted to score on exactly the ball barger hits, can’t score because it’s a ground rule double. Now, there’s a lot of arguments about whether this should have been too bad, Dodgers. You could still pluck the ball out of the wall, whether the rule book says it’s a ground rule double only if it’s not playable. like say in the vines of Wrigley Field. Ivy. Yeah. Lots of pissed-off Blue Jay fans that the rule was not applied appropriately. That there have been previous inside the park home runs by somebody as as slow as Prince Fielder. If you look it up, he once had an inside the park home run on exactly a play like this. and he makes Alejandro Kirk look like Ricky Henderson. Oh, hey, come on. But sure enough, it’s a ground rule double. Straw doesn’t score. Bargers on second. And that’s when Dave Roberts says, I’m going to go to my game three starter now, even though we’re wondering if he’s going to start game seven. If there is one, screw it. There is no tomorrow for us. I’m gonna bring in Tyler Glass now and I’m gonna have him face Ernie Clement who is hitting like Mickey Mantel on top of Stan Musul in these playoffs. And Clement takes the first pitch and pops it up. Yep. Nobody advances. I keep saying how the Blue Jays are the kings of the productive outs. Here’s an unproductive out just when the Dodgers need it. And then here comes Jimenez, who is maybe the best ninth place hitter I’ve ever seen with runners in scoring position in my entire life. And there’s two of them right there. And the Blue Jays need them both to score on a two-out hit. And Glass now gets him to lace one to left field on a broken bat that looks like this is now a tie game. But here comes Kik Hernandez in to throw a dart to second base. And a guy who Dave Roberts puts into the lineup for game six just because he thinks he’s bringing some juice. And Miguel Rojos who makes an incredible pick of a ball that was dirted right in front of him to stay on second base and get that run-of-the-mill World Series game seven forcing 74 double play. I’ve never seen that. Unbelievable. What was Barger doing? Thinking that was a base hit off the bat. So, lots of ifs and buts and candies and nuts brings about the game seven. Oh my goodness. So, Max Scherzer, future first Battle Hall of Famer, starting for the Blue Jays, and it’s Otani starting for the Dodgers. An interesting choice that I think had to bring be brought about cuz the game three starter saved game six, but that doesn’t preclude him from game seven. Oh, not by a long shot. And Otani starts game seven against Max Sherzer, which will be something, you know, in Coopertown lore, who started game seven of one of the most incredible World Series ever. Show Otani versus Max Sherzer. Unbelievable set of circumstances. And the Blue Jays send Bo Bashette to the plate with two on in the third inning against Otani. And Bette hits a no doubt about her straight out of the building and it’s three nothing Blue Jays. And when you hit three-run home runs, you usually win baseball games. And I’m sitting there thinking, okay, the party can start now. Except for the fact that, well, that’s the Los Angeles Dodgers out there with stars all over the place and guys who aren’t stars who can really play baseball and a manager who has got a magic touch. Oh, and Magic is in the building and owns a team as well. So listen, but it did feel like the the route is on, especially when in the next half inning in the fourth inning, top of the fourth, uh, Will Smith leads off with a double. Freeman with a base hit. Runners on the corners after a bets out, a one-out walk worked by Maxy. Bases loaded against Max Scherzer. And who comes up but former Blue JT Oscar Hernandez who sends a screaming liner to center and Daltton Vo makes a gorgeous catch. If he doesn’t make the catch, we have a tie ball game. Instead, this means just one run comes in and that’s all the Dodgers got. And I’m thinking, okay, this may just be the Blue Jays night. What a catch that was. And just when you thought, “Okay, that’s kind of crazy. We’re settling in.” Jimenez steps to the plate and uh was it Robelki was on the mound, right? He clearly tries to get hit by the pitch. He threw his arm. He threw his arm at it. Threw his arm at it. And then the next pitch, Robelki just hits him with it. And Jimez takes He gets so mad. He gets upset like like we’re putting people on base just to prove a point in a two-run game in the World Series game seven. Robleski basically tells him all sorts of things he can do to himself and his mother and are clearing. We’re playing the feud and people are running out from the book and I’m coming in. Hold on a minute. I’m making my way. Clayton Kershaw and his dad bought I’m almost there. Hold on a minute. Hold on a sec. Dude, what the hell’s going on in the World Series game seven? That was crazy. Playing feud. I loved it. I got the blood flowing. It was exciting. I did. Another thing I haven’t seen before in a World Series. Right. So then just when we’re seeing, you know, hey, we’re within reach of a World Series for the Blue Jays, right? and John Schneider like looks across the dugout to Dave Roberts. They too can play at the game of putting uh someone from previous starting positions into uh baseball games to do things out of the bullpen. In comes Trey Us Savage in the seventh inning. Walks Otani then gets out of it with a double play grounder to end it. And in the eighth inning, here’s you Savage. And just when you’re thinking, uhoh, Dodger fans are sitting here thinking there’s six outs to go. Max Muny hits one to uh Quebec. Missile in the seventh. It’s now a 43 game. And we go to the ninth. And this is why you watch baseball. Guys you’ve never heard of unless you pay strict attention. stroll to the plate and with Otani on deck and one out and the Blue Jays two outs away and it’s a 3-2 pitch and you hear John Smoltz tell Joe Davis and the rest of all of us listening, this needs to be an action pitch. What I mean by that is it can’t be so far out that Rojos doesn’t offer at it and you put Otani up to the plate as the go-ahead run. He’s got to swing at it. It’s got to be close enough that he swings at it. And it is a spinner that’s right down Broadway. And Miguel Rojos takes it out of the yard. Unreal. With basically one hand. And Joe Davis had the only reaction you can have while you’re working clean, which is no way. He said that. By the way, Joe, you could say that about every single at bat of this World Series. His wife was telling him that he was going to hit a a home run and he wasn’t even playing when she was saying this. Listen to the your better half, I guess. So, ties the game. Miguel Rojos, what’s he doing in the World Series? Just ask. Well, the reason why he’s in the World Series is cuz Andy PZ couldn’t hit. He couldn’t hit. But that doesn’t mean he can’t play. Yeah. Andy was being saved for something because Bottom of the ninth. Yep. This was so insane. Wait a second. Blake Snell, your game one and five starter comes out of the pen and this is the guy you’re going to say get us to extras because if you get us to extras, you can keep pitching, right? That’s that’s in in theory. And sure enough, Andy PZ comes running out of the dugout to for the second straight game be a defensive replacement in center field. And I’m thinking to myself, why is Dave Roberts doing that? All right. Well, let’s see what happens in this inning. Unbelievable. Un I I can’t get enough of just going blowby-blow here. So, Snell gets Vlad Guerrero to fly out. I mean, Snell versus Guerrero Jr. that had had epic moment written all over it. And certainly since the first pitch that Snell threw in his previous outing was yanked out of the park by Davis Schneider and then the next at bat by the guy at the plate to try and tie the game and send Canada into a frenzy that this thing’s not over and or that that it is over. You know, that we’re not going to extras. This is not going to go 18 in. And he flies out to center. Bob Bashette singles to left. Now, you know, at this point in time what’s going to happen here, okay, there’s going to be a pinch runner because he can’t run at all. As a matter of fact, there was a a base hit earlier in the game on two outs and he couldn’t advance. Couldn’t score. Yeah. So, who’s at the plate but Mr. Barger himself and with Isaiah Connor Falefa on first? Barger walks and IKF goes to second. Then Alejandro Kirk once again hit by a pitch and the bases are loaded and you’re like this is the end of the moment. But this is to be honest with you. Unbelievably this is the moment that Dave Roberts inserts Andy PZ into center field in the middle of the inning, guys. And Dalton Var shows at the plate. All he’s got to do is put the ball in play with the infield in and hit it hard somewhere not right at anybody. And who does he hit it to? To Rojas who looks like he bobbles it and stumbles and I’m thinking this World Series is over and he throws to the plate and IKF for some reason slides in with his feet. This is a force play at home. Run through the plate. Just run run through it. or slide with or slide with your hand. You’ve got your mid on. Slide with your right hand. And he’s ruled out at the plate. The replay at first blush, the first thing I saw was Will Smith’s right foot off the plate. I’m like, are we going to see the most 21st century moment ever? That a World Series is clinched and won on a replay reversal. That was in the ether until you saw Smith’s foot tap back on the plate before, for whatever reason, IKF sliding into home with his foot. It was all the dirt and it and with the dirt because of the slide, you couldn’t tell where the plate was. Is he going to be closer if he ran through it? Absolutely. Or when you look at the replay wide, TJ, I mean, we can obviously have an argument about it. We’ll never know. Yeah, we’ll never know. I’m running full speed. Running full speed by running through it like um you go to first like uh Jeremy Giani once tried, right? He was safe. Okay. I mean, but just running through it. Well, that one you needed to be tagged. This one you have to be tagged. But when you look at the wide lead, his secondary lead was non-existent. He was nut again. Like Snell is going to piouette and hit Muny who in is in. His infield in. You have full view of whether the third baseman’s going back to third. Yeah. He can’t sneak in behind you. This is the nightmare fuel for Blue Jay fans. um we’re running through right now for the next rest of their lives. Brutal. But it’s not over. It’s not over because Ernie Clement, who just set the record for most hits in a postseason’s coming up and he smokes one to left center and you could see Kik Hernandez is way too in to go get it and he is trying to basket catch it and you’re thinking this thing is now over. What are the odds he’s gonna basket catch it? Whatever those odds were were greater than Andy Pahz, who was just inserted, running for his life from center field to co and grab the ball over Hernandez and make the catch while they collide. Look at that. Laid him out. Laid him out. I thought Hernandez was like out, right? He He didn’t even know if he caught it. They collide. Look at that photo. That is perfect. You cannot get enough of this. That’s what Padrick should have blown up in his house. Yeah, that need to be in his house. Tattoo that on himself. Even better. You should get that tattooed, Jay. Kik Hernandez had the sound bite. Did you hear what he said? He said when he that when Pah caught it, looked down and said, “Are you okay?” And he thought that Pahz didn’t get it and that the World Series was over and he’s like, “I’m effing all right.” What are you talking about? did and and he pers basically told me I mean I caught the ball. Yeah. TK said I was just down because I thought we lost. When he came over to me I said do you have the ball? And he was like I have the ball. Yeah. I’m fine. I’m fine. We just effing lost. No, no. I I have the ball. That happened. That was four extra innings. That was insane. Back to back. Back to back. More ninth bear fuel for the Blue Jays. That was an incredible moment, man. Like that that felt like, okay, I really thought it was going to be Dodgers are going to win this now. I thought it was going to be KK Mazize for a second. The way he was going back, he was way too shallow. Well, yada yada yada. I mean, Will Smith homers. Yeah. And the problem for the Blue Jays is is before the Will Smith homer and after the Will Smith homer, there was somebody in the game and it was the game six and game two winner and Yamamoto. And they have to look at this guy and say, “Oh no, I don’t want to see you anymore.” He had to have gotten drug tested after this, right? Yoshobu Yamamoto build a statue of that guy. And sure enough, after the Will Smith home run puts the Dodgers up, by the way, I believe in the 74th inning of action of the World Series. Wow. Top of the 74th is when Will Smith homered and Yamamoto is now trying to save his own game seven win after winning games two and six. trying to save his own game seven W gives up a double to Vlad Guerrero Jr. who brings his hands in and somehow keeps it fair down the left field line. I can’t get enough about talking about this World Series. And with men on first and second, uh, pardon me, with with with Guerrero, um, doing what he did in this World Series, Alejandro Kirk comes up. And I thought to myself with runners on first and third, do you do you steal here? Do you steal? Do you dare steal here? Because Kirk couldn’t get the double playground ball. And sure enough, yeah, Yamamoto breaks Kirk’s bat in half, but Kirk had enough power to get it right to Muki. But Muki with an unassisted double play. And the most entertaining and wildest World Series, I got to say, I think I’ve ever seen comes to an end. The Dodgers become the first back-to-back champion since the Yankees did it. The first back-to-back NL champion since the Big Red Machine did it in the mid70s. And when Otani signed with the Dodgers and then Yamamoto signed with the Dodgers, all of us were here like, “How many World Series would it take to make this a success?” Some of us said two, some of us said three. Well, guess what? They’ve got two and they’ve got the team to go get a third because again, the stars are aligned. The stars are in their lineup. And give it up. You got to certainly when there’s there’s everybody, oh, they spent all everybody, oh, they spent all this money this money and then they defer all this and then they defer all this money and money and they do all this and they buy they do all this and they buy it. it. Well, in the same way that Phil Jackson Well, in the same way that Phil Jackson had Shaq and Kobe after he had Jordan had Shaq and Kobe after he had Jordan and Pippen, you still got to have the and Pippen, you still got to have the guy or the lady, depending on the sport, guy or the lady, depending on the sport, to push the buttons. to push the buttons. Give it up to Dave Roberts, Give it up to Dave Roberts, who by the way showed up in Toronto, who by the way showed up in Toronto, kept it light. You got to certainly when kept it light. I think what he he he was trying to race and run the bases. Fell flat on his face in front of the whole team. Yeah. Kept him loose. He’s the one who dropped Mookie to the fourth spot in the order and he got a two RBI single out of Muki. He’s the one who starts Otani, by the way, brought in glass now at one point in game seven. He’s the one who, Dude, I don’t I cannot I if we get him on the show, what made him want to put Andy Pas in the game? What made him say, you know what, middle of this inning, let’s go put him in there. Miguel Rojos in the sixth, game six, comes up with that pick on the double play to force a game seven that he ties with a home run. But and Justin Dean who knew the rule enough to put his hands up. Yeah, that was incredible. He could have easily just ran over, tried to grab it, and then the play lived on. And he was the one in game three when when Schneider was out of players that wasn’t for him. He kept his guys in the game. Congrats Dodgers fans. This locks up Hall of Fame for him, right? I mean, plus what he did as a player. I mean, there will be people who are like, “Well, he had this guy, that guy, that guy, that guy.” Still got to win it when everybody’s expecting you to. And they had a Blue Jay team was poised to prevent it. And it’s a good team, too, man. Dude, he went to Dodger Stadium, man. Oh, man. He won. They won both in Toronto. Yeah. And that’s my World Series review. It was awesome. What a series, man. It was so good. 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.

Rich Eisen reacts to the World Series’ epic Game 6 and Game 7 between the Dodgers and Blue Jays that ended with back-to-back titles for Los Angeles after another extra innings thriller in possibly the greatest MLB playoff game ever played.

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