That line came from the late, great Garrett Morris. One of his recurring characters on SNL was Chico Escuela, a Dominican baseball player with a limited command of the English language. If you are a Texas Rangers fan, that line applied to you last night.
It was game one of this year’s fall classic, the World Series. The Arizona Diamondbacks, the National League champs were in Arlington, and the game was a good one.
The Rangers jumped on D’backs starter Zach Gallen for two runs in the bottom of the 1st innning. Arizona scored 3 runs in the top of the 3rd, but Texas tied it up with a run in the bottom half of the frame.
The D’backs scored a run in the 4th and the 5th, chasing Rangers starter Nathan Eovaldi after 4 2/3 innings. Arizona took a 5-3 lead into the bottom of the 9th. And Oh, what a bottom of the 9th it was.
With one out and one on in the bottom of the 9th, Corey Seager jumped on a first pitch fastball from reliever Paul Sewald.
That homer, which went 418′, tied the game and sent it to extra innings.
The 10th saw no scoring, with only a single hit recorded. That would change in the bottom of the 11th inning.
With a 3-1 count, nobody on base and one out, Adolis Garcia hit a 373′ homer to end the game.
It’s only the second time in baseball history that a team hit a homer to force extras and end the game in the playoffs. The previous team to do that was the 2001 New York Yankees against the Diamondbacks.