Game 1 of the NLCS managed to produce one of the most incredible baseball chaos moments of all-time.
The Milwaukee Brewers hosted the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday for the opener of their seven-game series. In the fourth inning at American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisc., the Dodgers loaded the bases on Milwaukee’s Quinn Priester with one out and the score tied 0-0.
Dodgers infielder Max Muncy then turned on a pitch from Priester that looked like it might be a grand slam. But Brewers center fielder Sal Frelick got a glove to the ball and prevented it from leaving the yard. The ball then bounced off the wall and was caught by Frelick.
However, since it caromed off the wall, the ball was, by rule, live and created a force situation rather than a tag-up situation. That led to an absolutely manic series of events in which the three Dodgers baserunners seemingly had no idea what to do.
Frelick fired the ball into the cutoff man, Joey Ortiz, and Ortiz got the throw into the plate before lead runner Teoscar Hernandez could touch. Brewers catcher William Contreras then noticed that Dodgers counterpart Will Smith had retreated to second base. Contreras then stepped on third base himself and got the third out of the inning.
Take a look at the unbelievable video.
You have never seen anything like this in the history of baseball pic.twitter.com/7qAVzHEFNx
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Here is the overhead angle of the wild sequence.
Here is the high home view of the INSANE play in Milwaukee pic.twitter.com/gOr6vzCMW7
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For those keeping score at home, that officially went down as an 8-6-2 double play. For Muncy, he came inches away from a grand slam … but didn’t even get a sacrifice fly to show for it. Instead, he went down as having [checks notes] grounded into a 400-foot double play.
It is tough to tell what the biggest storyline was there — Frelick not even knowing what had happened, the three Dodgers baserunners having even less of an idea of had what happened, or the umpiring crew somehow getting that entire sequence correctly from the start (beginning with left field umpire Chad Fairchild immediately signaling that the ball was live once it hit the wall). But that was the kind of once-in-a-lifetime pandemonium play that reminds us exactly why we say, “We love baseball!”
