I’d argue that with it being a home game for Toronto, it’s not even a coin flip. The Jays have to be favored at least a bit. The ability to have a walk off is a solid advantage, if nothing else.
Perhaps, but the Mariners won the first two games in Toronto, so I’m thinking “coin flip”.
Until last night, I was telling myself, “Seattle hasn’t lost in Toronto yet, no reason for them to start now.”
I lived a block away from the arena that year. Didn’t have any money for tickets, but liked to go hang out for the atmosphere. The streets were like a morgue.
Technically a batter can avoid a double play by never swinging but it doesn’t help.
Runner on second. Dropped third strike. Tag the batter. Throw to third and the third baseman tagging the runner who was a little slow. Double play?
Technically, yes, as two outs were recorded. It would be a strikeout and a caught stealing, I think.
But it’s not a GIDP (Grounded Into Double Play), a statistic recorded in the box score.
Same with a caught fly ball and the runner is thrown out trying to advance a base. A double play, but not a GIDP.
In this series (I believe the last game in Seattle, that the Mariners won), a batter hit a fair ball that just dropped in front of the plate. Tiny little blooper. Bases were loaded with one out. Cal Raleigh (catcher, naturally) quickly snatched up the ball, tagged home plate (which forced the out from the 3rd base runner) then tossed the ball to first base, also getting out the batter before he could reach first base.
A weird double play, but still a double play. I even think that counts as GIDP, because that was certainly a grounder (probably the groundiest grounder ever, just falling on the ground a foot in front of the plate).
Here’s a video of the weird play.
I saw a stat that a 2-3 double play has only happened twice in postseason history. The first time was also the Mariners, and the catcher was Dan Wilson, now the Mariners manager.
Very quick reaction to get to the ball before it rolled foul back across the plate, keeping the ball live and making the play possible.
Does it make me a crotchety old purist that I still hate that the NL has the DH?
If they handed it off to Beast Mode, that percentage is really around 99%. One of my favorite YouTubes is that of Pete Carroll shouting, “OH NO!”
(fist bump)
What happens here?
Yes, it does.
Cal Raleigh is freaking unreal.
The 8-6-2 off-the-wall play in game one of the NLCS was technically a GIDP.
No. It was a fly ball that caromed off the fielder’s glove to the wall, bounced to the ground, and was then fielded by the outfielder. No ground ball involved.
It did not touch the ground, even on the throw to the cut off or the catcher. Even still, it was ruled a GIDP.
Not to jinx the Mariners, but how much do World Series tickets cost?
3 innings away from MLB becoming the first of the 4 major leagues to have every single team appear in a championship game/series.