Machado hits a walk off homer to cap off wild 9th inning, a breakdown
What Happened
In a thrilling bottom of the ninth inning, the San Diego Padres mount an incredible comeback against the San Francisco Giants. The Padres trail 4-1 entering the final frame, but their new closer Josh Hader struggles to find the strike zone, walking the leadoff batter and then allowing a pair of singles to load the bases with no outs. Hader continues to battle his control issues, walking in a run to make it 4-2 before Evan Longoria hits a sacrifice fly to tie the game at 4-4. With the score knotted, the Giants bring in their own closer Camilo Doval, who promptly gets a strikeout to end the inning and send the game to extra innings. In the bottom of the 10th, star slugger Juan Soto comes to the plate for the Padres. After a bizarre sequence where Soto argues he was hit by a pitch that was ruled a foul ball, the call is overturned and he is awarded first base via catcher's interference. This sets the stage for Manny Machado, who has been brimming with confidence, recently telling reporters "I'm fucking Manny Machado" when asked about the Padres' matchup with the Dodgers. Machado steps to the plate and crushes a 1-0 fastball over the wall for a walk-off three-run home run, giving the Padres a wild 7-4 victory. As Machado rounds the bases, his teammates eagerly await him at home plate, with one fan desperately trying to get a high-five. After the game, Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove playfully douses Machado with a water bottle, capping off the thrilling comeback win. Hader, who blew the save, is seen celebrating with the team, acknowledging that his teammates had his back after his struggles. The electric finish leaves the Padres and their fans overjoyed, as they pick up a crucial win in their quest to chase down the Dodgers in the NL West division race.
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Click timestamps to jump to that momentWe got two teams with interlocking S's as their little emblem playing and the Padres are up four
to one in the ninth inning. So they bring in their new closer to keep it right there. This breakdown
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John boy. So hater is in and he's gonna not find the zone with the slider with the slider with the
slider with the fastball. So it's a lead off walk. Not good. Then an O two inside fastball gets
punched over the shortstops head. Then a two, two slider hits the back foot. So base is loaded.
No one out. And he's still struggling to locate the ball with either pitch walks in the first
run. So now it's four to two outside fastball, high fastball, outside fastball, outside fastball,
scrap the slider. There was like, let's just go fastballs, walks in another run. And then
Longo puts one in play. Great diving catch by the left fielder comes up with it throws,
but he's still struggling to locate the ball. So he's still struggling to locate the ball.
So he's still struggling to locate the ball. So he's still struggling to locate the ball. So he's still
struggling to locate the ball. But that does tie the game with the runner scoring. So they
change the pitcher. They're bringing in a new lefty for jock and he strikes out on an ugly swing.
So now the Giants bring in their closer to hold it as a tie Rogers. And if you're thinking,
what the hell is this pitcher doing? Never seen anything like this. Well, yeah, he throws
from his feet and he's got two pitches from that angle. One that is going to go left to right. The
ball goes left to right little curve or slider on what they call it goes right to left to pitch
ground out. All right, good start. The next batters up and it's a lefty. So he's just going to try and
go outside the whole way gets the strike there on the fastball on the edge and he likes it. So now
that's supposed to be the slider, which is going to break from right to left. And he's still trying
to go low and away on this guy. Now he's gonna go back to the fastball with it. And that's not in
there. So now he's got it low and away three times in a row. And he's going to go back to the fastball
he probably feels a little exposed. So he's gonna say, you know what, you need to back up a little
don't get too comfy. So he goes up and in makes him move his feet. Now he's going to try and go
back low and away, but he gets it a little too high, hit up the middle. So now we got a runner
on in the Padres new toy one Soto comes up and you see the catcher's fingers right there. He says
slider and the pitcher says no says outside fastball and he says sure. And I don't know this
on purpose or he's really missing spot because the catcher set up blown away. But he goes up and
in.
Again, don't get comfy and Soto says ball ball. Nothing but a ball. So then they go with the
little slider. It doesn't come back and Soto says you can pitch to me. Come on now. I want to do
that. I'm gonna swing real hard the 20. Oh, that's a nice pitch. So it says okay, nice pitch. Nice
pitch. You'll probably throw that again and I'll just hit it. Oh, there it is. Ah, foul. So it
almost breaks his back. Watching this ball go foul. Watch this.
Limbo. My sister won a lot of limbo competitions growing up back to the slider fouls it off inside
and he says I hit his glove. No, I hit his glove. Hey, blue. I hit his glove. I hit his glove.
San Diego is challenging the call of foul ball at the plate.
The guy didn't hit the ball. I hit the catcher's glove, which is very true. He did hit the catcher's
glove, not the foul ball on the field is overturned. We have catcher's interference.
The battle is over.
So Soto goes the first. Oh, they're loving it. Manny steps to the plate. The crowd's getting
into it now. He steps in. That guy's fist pumping behind him. Manny, Manny, Manny.
Okay, Manny comes up to the plate now. Recently, before this game, Manny Machado was asked if he
was concerned about how the two teams matched up with the Dodgers because the Dodgers had just
beat the Padres and Machado said concerned. Why would I be concerned?
And they said, why? What gives you the confidence? And he said, because I'm fucking Manny Machado.
And that's all I need to know. All right. First pitch slider up in a way. Not good. I think the
guy I just noticed this. I think the guy in the, the hat and the floral pattern shirt will circle
on his hat. I think he just goes like thumbs up. Like that's up. That's up. Yep. I love fans, man.
Everyone's doing it. See this kid behind Manny. He's a fan. He's bored as hell.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
collects himself the 1-0 gonna get a pitch to hit maybe maybe not let's see oh that was such
a good pitch to hit fastball middle middle now we're praying hoping Gabe knows that was a good
pitch he's like let's go walk in Manny knows that was a good pitch to hit he's like if I get
something else I'm bam slider crushes it three run home run Padres win they pick Hader up these
guys celebrate they get the ball in the second deck guy in the in the hat on the right wants a
high five he wants a high five so bad high five that kid's holding the ball though and the other
kids got his arm around the kid with the ball so no one's available to give this kid a high five
he's still going strong looking for the high five looking for the high five settles I'll just pat
you on the back I will just pat you on the back good job good job SDSU just smiling yeah yeah
and now Musgrove
is gonna hit Manny Machado with the water look at this little hook shot water bottle throw squeeze
how's his precision uh comes out comes out straight line little tube of water and not bad
doesn't get his face but seatbelts him seatbelts him rather nicely a lot of coverage there horizontal
and then he's like is that all that's gonna happen he didn't get that wet oh you thought
there wasn't more water coming obviously there
was more water coming he's jumping he's jumping that always reminds me of people getting hurt
jumping on the plate Jeter got hurt like that it was the angels guy that got hurt you guys will
leave it in the comments I'm blanking I know it though I like this moment hater who had lost the
game basically supposed to get the save gets taken out he's in the mix he's celebrating he's
got her water bottle and now he makes sure he gets some special time with Manny because that's his
hand on Manny's head basically like hey and then he brings him in a little bit for a hug right here
see thanks man thanks for picking me up because we're a team that's what teams do it was just a
slider that barely slid rotating rotating rotating rotating crushed and then you get fearful eyes
and hopeful eyes and excited eyes and he says because I'm Manny fucking Machado
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