Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz and senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman react to Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Orion Kerkering’s error at the mound that led the team to a devastating NLDS loss against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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Orion Kerkering threw home, he did not throw it to first, and not only did he throw home, his throw was very much off the mark.
It was a very human moment.
One that unless you are on the Dodgers or a Dodgers fan, or a Phillies hater.
Your response was not, yay, a walk off.
It was, oh no, oh God.
Poor guy.
Part of the pain and disappointment and tragedy of this moment is that it, it was the conclusion of a truly beautiful, tremendous competitive, close, tight baseball game.
Now, ultimately, that buildup contributed to it because when we talk about a tense close postseason game, especially once we get into extra innings and it’s slow scoring, you know that however anybody scores, is going to feel like just this moment of, of relief and kind of exhale, but also like, especially if it’s a walk-off in the Dodgers case, you’re wondering who the hero is going to be, but you’re always painting it in that sense, right?
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And because this game was so well played, you’re thinking about it more from the standpoint of who’s going to step up and not who is going to necessarily fail.
And so when this is how it ends, it, it sucks.
It sucks.
Now the Dodgers certainly earned it by all accounts.
I mean, they were the better team in this series.
Yeah, and they were the better team in this game, ultimately, um, because they did enough to put themselves in position to have this moment happen.
I mean, that’s, that’s another, you know, part of, of this last, you know, of the bottom of the 11th here.
But I mean, obviously, because it was such a singular scenario, that is what is going to sustain.