Benches clear in Astros-Rangers after Adolis Garcia gets hit, a breakdown

once it's over the fence he says, oh, I'm the best, I'm the best, slams his bat down

and he's off, touching the bases, Verlander's upset, this fan's having fun, that fan's having

a lot of fun, touches second, head down, rounding the bases, let's go, oh, yeah, baby, and then

he's going to do a little boom, slams on home plate and has a lot of attention on him, had

a lot of fun, swinging big and these two teams have had a lot of drama over the regular season,

a lot of hit by pitchers.

Throwing at people, intentional, not intentional, retaliating, big home runs, that's Garcia

hitting a home run and when he came home, Simeon and Maldonado were jawing and then

he, instead of celebrating, him and Maldonado are talking to each other and yeah, so there's

just a lot on everyone's mind.

They've thrown at each other before, don't like each other, so the next inning when the

Rangers are hitting, Abreu is now pitching for the Astros and he wants that as a strike,

97 fastball, doesn't get it, 85 slider high, 96 away.

96 in the zone, 3-1 pitch, wants that, 96 up and in, doesn't get it, all around the

zone.

Up steps Adolis Garcia, the crowd's going wild, everyone wants more runs, Garcia must

have been anticipating this because as soon as he gets it, he turns to Maldonado and he's

like, no, no, no, no, no, hey, he pushes him, he's wagging his finger, the fans, umpires

trying to hold him back, fans are having fun, you got the coach, Ragsdale, I believe his

name, is pushing him and watch this.

Oh, yeah.

Watch this, okay, wait, ready, I'll slow it down.

You got this coach holding him back, holding him back and he's going to cut inside and

look at the coach's spin move here, spins and catches him before he gets there.

Adolis Garcia, now he didn't know what to do when he got there and he was going to slow

down and get caught anyway, but watch this little move, lets him go, great agility by

the coach, still got it, Maldonado sees him coming and just, how about Garcia just like

circumnavigating the whole crowd and finding his dude, but Maldonado sees him coming and

watch him kind of like, like drop back right there, like, okay, like he's ready, is he

going to throw a punch, he's just bracing himself, who knows, everyone realizes what's

happening, so now everyone's over there bumping into each other, protecting each other, there's

a glove right in the middle and I was like, whose glove is that, I found it, Jose Abreu

was in the middle of the pack, see him, and he's going to throw his glove down to the

side, he's like, hey, let me get my glove out of this melee, throws it, turns it around,

turns out the glove got in the middle of the melee, almost broke up the fight, maybe

that's what he was doing, like, ooh, a little water on the fire, throws the glove into the

middle, don't trip on this, don't trip on this, speaking of tripping on stuff, the two

umpires converge in the middle here and both at the same time push the pitcher Abreu back,

look, both of them say, hey, get back there, he steps on Garcia's bat, could have rolled

his ankle terribly, nah, it was like a very gentle step, but he, he stepped on the bat,

there's stuff on the ground, you got to be careful, I also like that Jordan Alvarez,

biggest scariest dude on the field, is on the other side and he goes straight to the

Rangers, grabs Garcia and plays pacifist and Eckhart comes up to him and he's like,

pats him on the hip, like, good job, thanks man, thanks man, because if you were doing

the other thing, if you weren't pacifier, you were instigator, that'd be, that'd be

pretty bad, that would be pretty, pretty shitty, so Jordan walks Garcia back, says, hey, no,

no, no, he says, no, no, no.

He says, no, no, no, and they're just like, it's okay, it's okay, Garcia jacked, Adelise

Garcia, when he takes the helmet off, you're like, whoa, that's what's going on under there,

you're huge, look how instant his look at Maldonado was, crazy quick, gets hit and then

right away, I think he kind of sells the umpires that this was intentional and I think the

umpires reacted off of Garcia's reaction, if he just walks the first, I don't think

there's a situation.

I wonder in the future if that's like a strategy to get a pitcher suspended and kicked out

of the game, it's just act like it was intentional, he told me he was going to do that, he told

me he was going to do that and he just wags his finger at Maldonado here, no, no, no,

and then I'm going to highlight Maldonado's face the whole time, so I blurred everything

else and if you look, you know, he doesn't look like that's on purpose, he looks like,

oh, shit, dude, are you going to, no, I don't want to have to do this with you, no, no,

no, no, dude, it's not on purpose, no, so he was doing that, the umpires get together

and like, I don't know, Garcia's pretty upset, maybe he told him he was going to do that,

Garcia walks down the line, waits it out, Dusty, what the fuck, Dusty's not happy, he's

like, what's going on here, they let him know we threw your pitcher out of the game, what,

yeah, you know, out of the game, what, you threw him out, yeah, we did, okay, do you

want to get tossed too, that's bullshit, you're done, I don't give a fuck, that is

fucking bullshit, you know that, hell no, it's a two-run fucking game, James, hell no,

so Abreu's ejected, he's got to leave the game, Bochy and Garcia just look on, I switch

their heads onto each other's bodies, the umpires are like, hey, okay, let's, wait,

Dusty didn't leave, Dusty, and Dusty just hasn't left, he decided that he's not ejected,

he said, hey, you were thrown.

You guys are fucking wrong, huh, well, I mean, no feel, this is fucking bullshit, Dusty's

not excited, but he's got to leave, because they kicked him out, he leaves, the Astros

bring Presley in, Rangers kind of have momentum, and we're going to walk through the rest of

this game, because it's a phenomenal finish to a baseball game, Rangers up 4-2, two on,

no outs, hot shot, Jose Abreu gobbles it up, and decides that he's going to get the runner

to keep the double play in order, crazy risky throw, because he's on his backside, he's

twisted up, if he throws it in the outfield, that's bad news, Presley says, thanks, I didn't

need the double play in order, though, I'm just going to strike out young, and then I'm

going to strike out low, fastball, must have been sitting fastball, gets slider, must have

been sitting slider, gets fastball, out of the inning, okay, top nine, LeClerc's in,

first batter, gets a base hit, they pinch hit Singleton, who's got an awesome, crazy

story, first at bat of the play, and then they get a base hit, and then they get a base

hit, postseason, in this spot, doesn't swing, I'm not swinging, unless you throw me a strike,

they think he's going to swing, because he's antsy, wanted to swing at that, kind of froze

up, wanted to swing at that, 3-2, stays in his element, does not chase, a big walk, and

that brings up Altuve, and Maldonado's like, what idiots, what idiots, they got us fired

up, and now they didn't pitch, they're going to pitch to Altuve, well, do they not know

what's happening here, first pitch, slider, away, for a strike, that's 85 miles per hour,

that's LeClerc's nicest pitch, but, look at Altuve, just kind of timing it up, never

wanted it, but timing it up, and that's 85 miles per hour, so the next pitch, I would

go fastball, or like slider way away, I don't know what I'd do, I would go fastball or slider

way away, that's what I would do, they're going to throw a change up, which is another

off-speed pitch, so that's what Altuve just sized up, is off-speed, and in the zone, into

his sweet spot.

He just absolutely hammers it, it barely gets over the wall, but I mean, good God,

he was sitting on that, and just hammered it, for a big home run, to give the Astros

the lead, they are fired up, that's what they do, that's what Altuve does, and does he act

like it's anything crazy, or out of the ordinary, no, nothing to it, that's just what Jose Altuve

does, want to know what he was busy thinking about, he wanted to go make sure he found

Singleton, and let him know how crucial that walk was.

Hey, that's what I'm fucking talking about, that was all you right there, hey, fuck, it's

nice, a nice feeling, for Singleton, worked the walk in front of Altuve, Altuve, first

thing he does, he goes, lets him know, daps him up, hey, that was all you, Altuve's in

the on-deck circle, during that at-bat, so he got to see a lot of pitches from the clerk,

also, just like, passing the baton to the top of the order, is pretty important for

the Astros, so Singleton got the job done there, and look at the clerk's eyes, that

is just a shook, man, what the hell?

What the hell happened?

He went change-up, in the zone, into the sweet spot, whoo, not good, Bochy with a little

neck stretch, thinking, oh, shit, and the clerk, little, yeah, he can't shake it, he's

trying to shake it out of his brain, he can't, and what the heck just happened?

Dusty comes out of his ejection cave, high-fives the dudes, big win, big drama.

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