Confirmed!
Those rampaging Milwaukee Brewers, who are looking like a runaway bullet train with no brake pedal, fired off a World Series inning like no other Monday. Seven straight two-out hits? … Eight straight two-out runs? … Five runs in a span of eight pitches? … Six runs in a span of 13 pitches? … Seven runs in a span of 17 pitches? … Eight runs in a span of 22 pitches?
Oh, and all of that happened after an umpire made a call (later overturned by replay) that would have ended this inning with no runs?
Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. And yep.
Trust us. There has never, ever been a World Series inning like that one. So when I walked into the Brewers’ clubhouse after their 10-1 demolition of the Tampa Bay Rays’ World Series dreams, I still felt the goosebumps from the history I’d just watched unfold.
But you know who doesn’t recognize history, even when they’re making it? Baseball players.
So did the dudes on this Brewers team have any idea of what they had just done? Let’s go with no.
THE ATHLETIC TO ROOKIE SHORTSTOP COOPER PRATT: “Have you ever been part of an inning like that?”
PRATT: “Yeah, I think everyone has been part of an inning something like that. It’s just baseball.”
OK, no, it’s not. But let’s move on. Let’s tell you about our exchange with Christian Yelich, the seasoned Lion King of this group. He seemed like someone who might have a feel for this weighty moment. But no, not quite.
TA: “Can you describe what it was like to find yourself in the middle of that inning?”
YELICH: “Yeah, it was cool. I mean, just happy for the guys, just trying to get a win out there and just playing baseball.”
TA: “Yes, but when it gets to six two-out hits in a row, to seven two-out hits in a row, are you saying to yourself, ‘I don’t know if I’ve been part of something like this?’”
YELICH: “I mean, I’ve seen our team have some times where we’ve run off consecutive hits throughout the year. Obviously, it’s not super frequent, but I feel like I’ve seen us kind of do some stuff like that before. Just kind of, it just happens. It’s one of those baseball things. … It’s one of those baseball things that you can’t explain, but it just kind of happens.”
TA: “That’s true. You just made it happen in a World Series game, though.”
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