A's win the season opener with a walk off grand slam, a breakdown
What Happened
The Oakland Athletics are hosting the season opener against an unnamed opponent. In the bottom of the extra inning, Simeon is placed on second base as the winning run under the new extra-inning rules. Laureano steps up to the plate and has a brief exchange with the pitcher, who says something Laureano can't repeat. Laureano is then hit by a pitch, loading the bases for Athletics slugger Chris Davis. Manager Bob Melvin jogs out to the mound to make a pitching change, bringing in right-hander Hobie Miller, who is making his 2020 season debut after spending last year in the minors. On the first pitch he sees, the 29-year-old Miller crushes a towering grand slam to right field, winning the game for the Athletics in dramatic fashion. The Athletics dugout erupts in celebration as Miller's mammoth home run clears the wall. Even the security guard in the outfield stops to admire the shot. The catcher, unfazed, simply turns and walks away as the ball sails over the fence. After rounding the bases, Miller is met by a Gatorade bath courtesy of teammate Tony Kemp. Kemp admits he didn't execute the Gatorade shower perfectly, saying "I should have just gone straight up." Laureano, meanwhile, is seen celebrating animatedly, having apparently killed a squirrel with his earlier hit-by-pitch. The walk-off grand slam gives the Athletics a thrilling season-opening victory in extra innings. Miller's heroics spark a raucous celebration, capping off an exciting start to the new campaign for the A's.
Why This Matters
The A's walk off the season opener with a grand slam, which is already insane, but this breakdown catches all the trash talk between Laureano and the pitcher, the HBP that loads the bases, and the clutch at-bat from Chris Davis that ends it all. It's peak Opening Day chaos.
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Who / What Is Involved
Players: Simeon. Teams: Athletics.
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Full Transcript
Click timestamps to jump to that momentwe got our first glimpse of the extra
inning rules last night in this new
season simeon made the last out of last
inning so he starts on second base
he is the winning run my dude loriano at
the plate
met him once he said hey how'd you read
my lips so well i said i don't know it
was
easy he said you didn't get this word i
can't repeat that word he got hit by a
pitch
now chapman's up he's going to strike
out next up
comes chris davis and they're going to
walk him and now the bases are loaded
and joe madden and all of his red glory
is gonna walk out and he's gonna oh it's
a light jog go give him credit
light little jog out for matt and been
sleeping in his van and he calls up
hobie miller hobie miller spent last
year at
aaa he'd been up and down 29 years old
making his 2020 season debut
trying to get things off on the right
foot olson says what's this guy guy says
i you know
just hit a home run he said okay cool
first pitch off speed
sitting on it oh my god just a tank job
everyone's looking besides the catcher
even the guy working in security or
whatever he's working in the back
need to get a peek at this boy i like to
catch her just nope
out of here hobie saying well that's not
how i wanted to start my season at all
maybe the roughest now i think this is
tony kemp with the gatorade
and you guys know i like a good gatorade
throw in tony
come on dude you're my height so first
off the a shouldn't have you being the
gatorade guy
second that's just bad form and he's
even going to talk about here it's like
look i should have went
up i should have just went straight up i
tried to go sideways i needed to just go
up this guy's like let me tell you
something you just go up dude
and you know so tony we'll work on that
lauriano just killed a squirrel i think
and i've misinformed you because the
catcher didn't want to look didn't want
to look
but you look because home runs like that
are beautiful