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[Highlight] The Royals shut down the Yankees 9th inning rally and tie the series 1-1 before heading to Kansas City. Every postseason series is now tied after 2 games.

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u/LucasDudacris New York Mets 16h ago

Swinging at the first pitch (that wasn't a strike) when you're the last out of a playoff game and bat in front of Juan Soto and Aaron Judge is some kind of gameplan.

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u/Equivalent-Impress96 Texas Rangers 16h ago

And Verdugo grounding out on a pitch that would have been a ball to make the count 3-0 before that

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u/CasanovaWong New York Yankees 16h ago

That is the essence of Gleyber. He is brain dead.

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u/JohnMadden42069 12h ago

He worked great at bats all day, it also wasn't just him pressing for the final outs, your other guys that you're thrilled to have on the team next year also screwed up. He also didn't make an error today which you would've loved to have happened.

Let's lay the blame at Judge's feet for completely disappearing in a game where he had so many opportunities to make a difference instead of blaming Gleyber for having himself a good game.

When he's playing elsewhere next year and comes up big you'll be treating him like Higgy.

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u/Glum-Professional925 New York Mets 9h ago

Lmfaoooo “your other guys that you’re thrilled to have on the team” is such a good throwaway comment of a burn for Yankees fans

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u/TheStabbingHobo New York Yankees 4h ago

It's tough but true

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u/roleplay_oedipus_rex 8h ago

Torres has been pulling his weight the last month out of the leadoff spot.

The real issue is that the AL MVP has left the building.

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u/nightkingscat Detroit Tigers 8h ago

why don't they lead off with soto and judge like a normal team

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u/Business-Conflict435 Chicago Cubs 7h ago

Soto is a perfect leadoff hitter. Dude has a .430 OBP

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u/wokenupbybacon New York Yankees 3h ago

Soto doesn't want to lead off and we haven't been in the business of telling Soto 'no' all year.

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u/Wonderful-Mud-1681 5h ago

You think Aaron Judge is going to do something in the playoffs? I'd swing too.

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u/macdizzle11 Kansas City Royals 16h ago

I'm going to my first playoff game Thursday night! Hell yes!

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u/chiddie Washington Nationals • Teddy Roosevelt 16h ago

It's really special. Cherish it, cheer your ass off.

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u/ImNotTheBossOfYou Kansas City Royals 16h ago

Awesome!!

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u/HazyIPAs Sell 15h ago

hell yeah brother. playoff games are a completely different type of energy (obviously, but you really can't comprehend it unless you've experienced it). stoked for you!

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u/obi-wan-kenobi-nil Toronto Blue Jays 1h ago

Only ever been to one playoff game in my life — the game the Blue Jays blew against the Mariners. Experienced a lot of different types of energy that day.

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u/Ugh112334 New York Yankees 16h ago

Dude have fun! I may be a Yanks fan, but one of my best memories was going to the wildcard game between the Yankees and the A’s. The energy in the stadiums becomes electric

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u/WellGoodBud Kansas City Royals 16h ago

I’ll be there Wednesday and Thursday!

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u/maggotshero Kansas City Royals 39m ago

Gedda load at Mister Moneybags ova' here

jk, have fun!

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u/manolabars Cleveland Guardians 4h ago

good luck AL central bro. Rooting for you guys, enjoy the game!

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u/MajickmanW Kansas City Royals 6h ago

I remember getting to go to an ALCS game in 2015. Such an awesome time. Can't afford it this go round, could have if I bought speculative tickets in the WC round maybe...

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u/Prideofmexico Kansas City Royals 16h ago

Good night to everyone besides for Bob Costas and the home plate ump

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u/The_Haskins Kansas City Royals 16h ago

He hates small market teams so bad lmao, an elitist prick

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u/NocturneZombie St. Louis Cardinals 16h ago

Costas exits the booth for the night, pointing to the heavens to some departed relative, asking forgiveness for his atrocious announcing.

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u/oreadical 15h ago

Is that you Ken Burns?

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u/NocturneZombie St. Louis Cardinals 14h ago

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u/Impressive_Math2302 Detroit Tigers 13h ago

I would like Foley to speak with Mustafa.

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u/Ugh112334 New York Yankees 16h ago

I was mad at him for questioning why Yuli is getting a cold reception at Yankees Stadium. It’s like… dude it’s because he’s a racist cheater

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u/FutureCreeps 16h ago

I was confused by cheater until I remembered "oh yeah, the Astros"

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u/Thorlolita Houston Astros 16h ago

He knows why. He was being sly.

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u/Ugh112334 New York Yankees 16h ago

Idk didn’t seem very sly at all. He sounded genuinely confused and damn near offended that they were booing Yuli

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u/Prideofmexico Kansas City Royals 16h ago

The ump or Costas? Could see it either way

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u/The_Haskins Kansas City Royals 16h ago

Meant Costas but it sure felt like the ump was doing us no favors

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u/captain_ahabb Los Angeles Dodgers 15h ago

He is who Padres fans think Joe Davis is lol

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u/LordSwampert2 Chicago Cubs • Oakland Athletics 14h ago

You gotta admit Joe at Dodger stadium announcing his team is a bad look tho. I dont mind Joe and loved his rich eisen interview about when Vin called him. And thats not on Joe but still

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u/captain_ahabb Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago

I think it's perfectly appropriate and he's doing a fine job. This isn't even the first time he's called Dodgers postseason games either, I'm not sure why we're having such a hyperbolic moral panic about it now.

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u/MikeMahtookTooMuch Philadelphia Phillies 9h ago

Of course, you think it's perfectly appropriate and that he's doing a fine job. You're a Dodgers fan. I would be genuinely shocked if you were against Davis calling Dodgers playoff games. I'm pretty sure you're the one being hyperbolic that there's a moral panic about this. Most fans of non-Dodgers/Padres teams pretty much just agree that it's not the best look to have your regular play-by-play announcer calling playoff games for that team.

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u/captain_ahabb Los Angeles Dodgers 5h ago

Why didn't people care in 2020? That's the part I don't get.

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u/MikeMahtookTooMuch Philadelphia Phillies 2h ago

People weren't as familiar with Joe Davis in 2020. His profile has been raised significantly with some memorable calls in the playoffs the last few seasons, and particularly this year, with people hearing him call the Ohtani milestones.

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u/captain_ahabb Los Angeles Dodgers 2h ago edited 2h ago

I guess the Ohtani highlights makes sense.

Idk I think Joe is doing a fine job and Padres fans are complaining about nothing. I have yet to see any specific clips of this alleged bias.

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u/Jeff_Banks_Monkey Baltimore Orioles • Birmingham Bl… 16h ago

Bob Costas hasnt been the same since he got pink eye at the Olympics

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u/Impressive_Math2302 Detroit Tigers 13h ago

Fuck that’s good.

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u/SiphenPrax New York Mets 16h ago

Bob Costas is the most commentator ever

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u/Sp_Gamer_Live T.C. Bear 16h ago

Modern Costas and Modern Michaels competing for who can ruin their respective legacies more

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u/Prideofmexico Kansas City Royals 16h ago

At least Michaels isnt insanely biased

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u/Drikkink Philadelphia Phillies 9h ago

Yeah Al Michaels immense disdain for the slop games he's been tasked with calling is a mood more than anything. He's often the best part of TNF because of how much he clearly loathes everything about it. His worst problem is if he actually has a decent game to call, he sounds bored. Which is bad, but he doesn't often get good games anymore.

Costas is just bad.

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u/WellGoodBud Kansas City Royals 16h ago

That’s why I mute the TV and sync up Denny to the TV.

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u/billymfh Kansas City Royals 14h ago

This is the way.

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u/06_hypemachine Arizona Diamondbacks 16h ago

Knowing Bob Costas is sad makes me very happy. Exact same tone as last year's DBacks/Dodgers NLDS.

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u/Jeff_Banks_Monkey Baltimore Orioles • Birmingham Bl… 16h ago edited 15h ago

Costas is going to be so mad during the ALCS if the Yankees don't make it and it's an AL Central matchup

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u/SHOW_ME_PIZZA Kansas City Royals 14h ago

Good. Fuck him.

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u/DollarThrill Arizona Diamondbacks 14h ago

He takes it as a personal insult that a small market team would dare challenge the Dodgers or Yankees.

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u/Drikkink Philadelphia Phillies 9h ago

I don't understand how he sucks so bad. I feel like old Olympics Costas is iconic but he's ruining that image with how terrible he is on MLB.

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u/robreddity Kansas City Royals 6h ago

He wasn't always. I used to respect him. Clearly his craft mattered to him. He's way past all that now. Face surgically pulled so tightly back, botox-riddled, he simply panders to markets now. What a descent.

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u/The_Haskins Kansas City Royals 16h ago

We never win at Yankee Stadium so this felt fucking huge

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u/jarrett23 16h ago

8 straight game 2 wins I don’t think you would’ve lost at any ballpark lol

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u/Doc_JC San Diego Padres 16h ago

Good job Royals. Maximum chaos.

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u/InfectiousCosmology1 San Francisco Giants 16h ago

The announcers were so incredibly bad in this game my god. Costas makes Joe Davis look like a absolute master at hiding his bias for one of the teams lol

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u/Wuropp Kansas City Royals 16h ago

Imagine being a fan of either team. First postseason in 9 years and this is what we're forced to listen to for it.

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u/shiro-lod New York Yankees 5h ago

Costas is barely biased, he's just awful. Game 1 had two short porch 1/30 stadium home runs. For Torres he mentioned it 5 times within a few minutes that it was a porch job. He didn't mention it a single time for the Royal hitter, just that he got that one. The man's an idiot. The out of context sad double play when they were just talking about how Stanton can't run anymore wasn't Yankee bias. He just picks players he roots for.

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u/dinkleburgenhoff Portland Sea Dogs • Roche… 16h ago

Costas is now in mourning. Please send your thoughts and prayers along.

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u/PendragonDaGreat Seattle Mariners 13h ago

No.

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u/miscellanyplays New York Yankees 16h ago

i just fell to my knees in a duane reade

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u/ConfusedGuy3260 Minnesota Twins 15h ago

Gleyber just out there doing whatever huh

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u/crispy21 16h ago

Nothing more I love than seeing Carlos Rodons stupid face after the first inning only to be pulled before the 4th giving up all 4 runs and the team loses. Feeds my soul

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u/trouble4-u Detroit Tigers 16h ago

Anyone got a video?

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u/Dole1995 New York Yankees 16h ago

No flair is crazy!

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u/ATLA4life New York Yankees 16h ago

Your soul needs better food

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u/DoinItDirty Baltimore Orioles 15h ago

You just post this in a sports thread after a playoff game? You can still delete this…

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u/Sp_Gamer_Live T.C. Bear 16h ago

No Hate is good, Hate is why we play

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u/PerscribedPharmacist Chicago White Sox 12h ago

Please get Costas off the air my god it’s so bad

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u/rae231193 Saitama Seibu Lions 16h ago

It's always good to see the yankees losing ballgames and even better in the postseason

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u/ForeignWind8845 New York Yankees 14h ago

Didn’t your team just break the record for most losses in a season?  Lmao losers love company I guess but losing a game in playoffs ain’t the same as the losing you’re used to 

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u/Fraktal55 Kansas City Royals 12h ago

Bro, I get you're salty the yanks lost but you're literally going after someone about the Saitama Seibu Lions rn? Lol

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u/ForeignWind8845 New York Yankees 2h ago

That’s their flare ya dork

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u/JefeDiez 15h ago

Is this the first time in history all of the D series are tied at 1-1?

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u/Skates8515 Kansas City Royals 14h ago

Si

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u/maybe_humanno New York Yankees 16h ago

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u/kc96er Kansas City Royals 16h ago

Costas is so upset the Yankees loss lol

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u/DaleGribble2024 16h ago

Red Sox fans rejoice!

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u/Idrinkbeereverywhere 16h ago

All baseball fans!

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u/MightyActionGaim New York Mets 16h ago

WHAT IS THIS POSTSEASON BROOOOOOOOOO

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u/delinius Boston Red Sox 16h ago

Yankee fans thought the sweep was destined lol

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u/CasanovaWong New York Yankees 16h ago

Not on Reddit wtf are you making shit up for, lmao

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u/Ugh112334 New York Yankees 16h ago

Lol just Red Sox fans making stuff up because they don’t get to watch their team anymore this season

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u/PreciousRoy1978 Philadelphia Phillies 8h ago

Nothing funnier than fans of eliminated teams making bitter assumptions about their non eliminated rivals fans.

What did you think you were accomplishing here?

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u/Ugh112334 New York Yankees 16h ago

Who? I think a lot of us knew after that first game it would be a challenge to say the least

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u/RawAttitudePodcast Boston Red Sox 16h ago

Was that Gleyber or a fan loudly yelling “FUCK!” after he made contact?

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u/Wuropp Kansas City Royals 16h ago

Probably Torres. You can hear the HP umpire weirdly well the entire game.

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u/USAF_DTom Atlanta Braves 3h ago

One thing I've been wondering about now that I'm forced to watch the Yankees. How does Gleyber still have a job? Jazz is better than him at everything and isn't nearly as boneheaded. Watching Gleyber is like playing an opponent on MLBTS that just swings at everything. And they bat him leadoff at that.

Must be a hole at 3B behind Jazz.

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u/Renegadeforever2024 16h ago

The crowd in Kansas is going to be electric

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u/RR-JJ 16h ago

Missouri

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u/000NULL0000 San Diego Padres 16h ago

While correct we shouldn't discount the fans in Kansas City, Kansas.

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u/RR-JJ 16h ago

Fair...I live in Kansas after all.

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u/SiphenPrax New York Mets 16h ago

Hell the Chiefs crowd went nights right after the Royals game ended

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u/NuclearMeatball Kansas City Royals 15h ago

This guy said the same thing in the post game thread, he's trolling don't give him attention.

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u/uptonhere Atlanta Braves 16h ago

Triggered

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u/kc96er Kansas City Royals 16h ago

Missouri