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No Springer for Jays, that hurts.

They pitched to Ohtani . . . and struck him out!

Twice! Then a walk. Bieber needs to share his magic dust.

Home field advantage!

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Home field advantage!

TV Listings says 3 hours.

Three hours.

Easy Peasy.

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It's a whole new series.

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It's a whole new series.

I like the single + 3 wild pitches to score. LAD is not looking so dominant anymore. GoO Really and the rest of usGo! Can you imagine? Rookie P, W, 1ER, 12K - most EVER by a rookie in a WS game Savage Yesavage!

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Satire:


Pretty good satire.


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Canadian Singer Makes 1 Subtle Change To National Anthem To Protest Trump
The president has made repeated remarks about annexing Canada as America's 51st state.

Canadian singer Rufus Wainwright changed the lyrics of “O Canada” to seemingly protest President Donald Trump’s remarks about making the country America’s 51st state.

Wainwright changed the lyrics of Canada’s national anthem — which begins “O Canada/ Our home and native land/ True patriot love in all of us command” — from “in all of us command,” to “that only us command” before Wednesday’s Game 5 of the World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium.

Wainwright’s reps did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

His lyric change comes just eight months after Canadian singer Chantal Kreviazuk did the same at the 4 Nations Face-Off championship hockey game in February.

Kreviazuk told The Associated Press at the time that she changed the lyrics “because I believe in democracy, and a sovereign nation should not have to be defending itself against tyranny and fascism.” ...

Ohtani trivia for the ages:

Shohei Ohtani Makes Baseball History In Utterly Insane World Series Marathon
Game 3 of the World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays went 18 innings in what was one of baseball's wildest ever clashes.

Shohei Ohtani homered twice and tied a 119-year-old major league record with four extra-base hits in Game 3 of the World Series on Monday night, putting on yet another historic postseason show at Dodger Stadium.

After his four-hit barrage in the first seven innings, Ohtani drew five consecutive walks in this epic 18-inning World Series game, making him the first major leaguer in 83 years to reach base nine times in any game, let alone the postseason.

... Ohtani led off the bottom of the first with a ground-rule double to right field. He followed with a solo homer to right in the third inning off Toronto starter Max Scherzer and added an RBI double in the fifth off reliever Mason Fluharty during a tying rally for Los Angeles.

Ohtani then hit a tying solo homer off Seranthony Domínguez with one out in the seventh. It was his sixth homer in the Dodgers’ last four games, and he tied Corey Seager’s eight homers in 2020 for the most by a Dodgers player in a single postseason.

The Blue Jays had seen enough of Ohtani by then: Manager John Schneider intentionally walked him in the ninth, 11th, 13th and 15th innings — and the gambit worked each time, with Ohtani’s teammates unable to get him home.

Ohtani is the first player to be intentionally walked four times in a postseason game, just one shy of the overall major league record for intentional passes set by Andre Dawson in May 1990.

... Ohtani became the first player to reach base nine times since Stan Hack had five hits and four walks for the Cubs in an 18-inning game on Aug. 9, 1942, tying a record also achieved by Max Carey in 1922 and Johnny Burnett in 1932.

After becoming the first player in MLB history with three multihomer games in one postseason, Ohtani is two shy of Randy Arozarena’s record for homers in a postseason.

Only one other player in baseball history got four extra-base hits in a World Series game: Frank Isbell had four doubles for the Chicago White Sox in Game 5 in 1906 against the Chicago Cubs.

Ohtani also became the first hitter to have multiple games with at least 12 total bases in a single postseason. The only other player to have two such postseason games in his career was Babe Ruth.

Once again, Ohtani put on a spectacular show for the Los Angeles fans who definitely “need” him, posting his first four-hit game of the postseason in his first game back at Dodger Stadium since he hit three homers and struck out 10 Milwaukee Brewers in his sensational two-way effort during a clinching victory in the National League Championship Series 10 days ago.

... Ohtani now trails only Arozarena, who set the major league record with 10 postseason homers in 2020 before Tampa Bay lost the World Series to Seager and the Dodgers....

Will the BJ give him a chance to hit 2 more? Regardless,

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Ut-oh

EDIT: Springer's BACK.

EDIT: C'mon walkoff!

EDIT: C'mon Game 7.

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What a bizarre finish, I thought the Jays were gonna do it.

Should be a good one tomorrow night.

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What a bizarre finish, I thought the Jays were gonna do it.

Should be a good one tomorrow night.

Maybe they should have done it.

It was the umps.

MLB writer says Blue Jays got 'screwed' on what may be World Series' most controversial call ever

... Barger sent a line drive straight to the outfield wall. The ball became partially lodged at the bottom, and Dodgers center fielder Justin Dean immediately threw his hands up. The umpires ruled it a ground-rule double. SI’s JD Andress believes the Blue Jays were done dirty by the call.

“The fact this is ruled a ‘lodged ball’ but then the CF has no problem picking it up and throwing it in is dumb. He didn’t even make an effort to grab it right away. Blue Jays might have gotten screwed,” Andress posted....

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It was the umps.

Agreed, it was in plain sight and playable. Should have been a live ball.

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It was the umps.

Agreed, it was in plain sight and playable. Should have been a live ball.

At least from 7:15 ET on the pregame did not mention the play or that there is a controversy. Typical Faux, ignore screw-ups that they were complicit in.

Jeter strategy: Walk Ohtani every AB. That way he never gets a chance to sit down in the game.

Crap, 3 stranded in the 2nd.

EDIT: I was in the process of posting '3 days rest Ohtani is done' BEFORE the HR.

EDIT: Nice defense in the 4th, BJ. Is Scherzer done?

EDIT: I'm telling you that I could be a manager. Scherzer is done after 4 1/3. Nice job, 1 ER, 1 out, 1 on base. He's the oldest to start a Game 7. Will he be the oldest to get a W?

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Will he be the oldest to get a W?

He didn't go five,

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Will he be the oldest to get a W?

He didn't go five,

How does any reliever get a W then?

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CRAP!

Bottom 9, c'mon BJ!

EDIT: Wow, crap, so close.

EDIT: Top 10th, phew x 2.

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Will he be the oldest to get a W?

He didn't go five,

How does any reliever get a W then?

Official scorer awards it.

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Will he be the oldest to get a W?

He didn't go five,

How does any reliever get a W then?

Official scorer awards it.

The rules aren't set in stone? I assumed starter got the win if his team never relinquished the lead he left the game with.

Irrelevant to this game now. That's a shame. The win will always be tarnished by the Game 6 controversy.

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The rules aren't set in stone? I assumed starter got the win if his team never relinquished the lead he left the game with.

Irrelevant to this game now. That's a shame. The win will always be tarnished by the Game 6 controversy.

Sort of set in stone. The starter has to go five to qualify. If he doesn't go five and his team is winning the whole time the scorer awards it to one of the (hopefully deserving) relievers.

If the starters team is behind, whoever is on the hill when the behind team gets ahead and holds it gets the win.

Weird thing, a closer can blow a game in the top of the ninth and get a blown save. Then, if their team comes back and wins in the bottom of the ninth they get the W too.