About 3 minutes before this game actually ended I was thinking this might be a pretty short screenshot thread. Oh, what a beautiful fool I was.
[This is gonna be very long. Hang in there.]
Pregame with Kenley Jansen is up here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wWhCAZFFwQMBjRu-1WLH1quGfL9SNmRw/view?usp=drivesdk
I thought this pickle was cool as hell, so I'm gonna attempt a (shoddy) summary:
Mookie walks. Corey singles to LF & makes a sharp turn. Mookie's running hard and gets into 3B safely with the throw slightly up the line.
Mookie walks. Corey singles to LF & makes a sharp turn. Mookie's running hard and gets into 3B safely with the throw slightly up the line.
Bc arenado has an annoyingly good arm, he makes a quick turn& throw and catches Corey between 1b and 2b. Mookie notices this pretty much immediately and jumps right into a short lead towards home, close enough he can dive back to 3b if he needs to
Meanwhile: Corey vs. many people trying to tag him out; going pretty well for him. The best thing about a pickle is you can't just like, make a break for it and run into right field; you have to stay within a vaguely defined lane while also avoiding everyone else. It's great.
This is where I'm guessing murphy makes the (incorrect) assumption that they can hold Mookie on 3b. Murphy breaks towards Corey; Mookie breaks towards the plate.
See where Corey's looking? Mookie's stepping on home plate right about here. Rundown complete, runner in, 5-6 throw and Corey lets himself get tagged out, job done. 7-5-3-4-3-6.
Cannot bring myself to do a whole rundown on this pickle as well but 1. Lucky deflection! And 2. Nice tag by Blake