"It started as it would end, with Freddie Freeman, and then it just kept happening: Dodger after Dodger in extra innings would smoke a potential walk-off home run off of Toronto Blue Jays near-hero Eric Lauer, almost directly to center field, the stadium would roar, and then the ball would die just at the warning track, snagged, inevitably, by Daulton Varsho. It was funny, and then it was funny, and then it was ... funny? And then it was the bottom of the 18th inning."
"Because of how long the game ran on Monday, it was chillier and perhaps windier than you usually get at Dodger Stadium, which-for reasons that are somewhat inscrutable but can be attributed to short fences, a short center field, perhaps (or perhaps not) balmy Los Angeles weather-has recently been the best home run park in baseball. That was the real killer."
Multiple Dodgers repeatedly drove balls that appeared destined to be walk-off home runs in extra innings, but center fielder Daulton Varsho intercepted them at the warning track. The sequence began with Freddie Freeman and continued through successive at-bats, each near-miss extending the contest deeper into extra innings until the 18th. The long game produced chillier, windier conditions at Dodger Stadium. The park has recently played like a home run haven due to short fences and a compact center field, contributing to hitters’ belief that deep contact would clear the wall.
Read at Defector
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]