High N Tight Saturday!

Fifteen innings. One swing. A city reborn.

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🧢 First Pitch — October Wow

If you’re a baseball fan, it doesn’t get better than this —
unless you’re a Phillies or Tigers fan.

Thursday gave us that epic Dodgers–Phillies clash — 11 innings, decided on a routine grounder back to the pitcher... botched.

And Friday? That was chaos turned cinematic.

Tigers vs. Mariners. Game 5. Win, and it’s off to Toronto.
Lose, and you pack the bats.

No one was ready to go home.

The game went fifteen innings — yes, fifteen.

In the bottom of the 15th, Mariners’ Jorge Polanco finally ended it — a sharp single scoring the winning run, sparking a mob scene at home plate.

Every Seattle fan just found religion. The Mariners are headed to the ALCS for the first time in over twenty years.

Shame someone had to lose.

We’ve seen the brilliance this postseason — 100-mph heat, 455-foot moonshots, web-gem defense. And we’ve seen the blunders — the kind you expect in Little League, not October.

That’s playoff baseball: one bad hop makes you a hero; one mistake sticks till spring.

The Dodgers? Who needs a bullpen?

With a ridiculously deep rotation — Snell, Yamamoto, Ohtani, Glasnow — and now Sasaki closing like Mariano 2.0, Dave Roberts is handing the ball from starter to starter. And it’s working.

The Bronx Bombers? Already home.

And that groan you heard? The Commissioner — realizing there won’t be a Dodgers–Yankees rematch.

Brilliance gets remembered. Failure gets replayed forever.
And October baseball gives us both — sometimes in the same inning.

Celebration in Seattle.
Tonight? Yet another all-or-nothing Game 5: Cubs vs. Brewers.

Bring it on.

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🟢 The Good — Fans, Fame & Foul Balls

Like most of you, I’ve had it up to here with these fan escapades — people diving for foul balls like it’s a Black Friday flat-screen sale.
But this week? We got a mix of creativity… and dumb luck.

In Detroit, Cal Raleigh — The Big Dumper — launched one into the seats.

And waiting for it? A fan in a teal shirt that read: “Dump #61 Here.”
Not kidding. The fan, Jameson Turner, caught the damn ball.

Then it gets better — he peels off the shirt to reveal another underneath: “Dump #62 Here.”
Can’t make this stuff up.

Turner says he was waving to Raleigh just before the bomb — “Maybe he saw me.”
Yeah, Jameson. Sure he did.

After the game, Turner met his hero — traded the ball for a signed bat and a photo.
Because how do you not?

Meanwhile, in New York, Bad Bunny — who seems to be everywhere these days — had front-row seats for Game 3 of the Blue Jays-Yankees ALDS.

That’s when a foul ball came screaming his way, and he did what any global pop star would do: ducked and shielded his head.

As luck would have it, the fan behind him fumbled the catch, and the ball rolled right to Bad Bunny. Never moving from his seat.

No diving. No screaming. No chaos.
Just vibes.

Two fans. Two souvenirs.
One part genius. One lucky as hell.

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👎 The Bad — Naylor’s Nerve

Sign stealing is nothing new.
It’s as old as the game itself.

But there’s always been a line — a kind of gentlemen’s agreement not to make it too obvious.

Josh Naylor must’ve missed that memo.

During Game 4 in Detroit, the Mariners slugger stood on second base and started waving his arms like he was parking airplanes.

Pitch after pitch, he motioned — relaying signs to Mitch Garver at the plate.

Nope, it wasn’t banging trash-can lids, but broadcaster and former Major League pitcher Adam Wainwright wasn’t thrilled.

“I don’t like it,” he said — though he admitted it was completely legal.

Fans were split. Some called it heads-up baseball. Others called it cheating.

One fan summed it up perfectly:

“Back in the day, it wasn’t a gentleman’s agreement that kept it discreet — it was that guys would drill you!”

Even AJ Hinch — who lived through the 2017 Astros sign-stealing scandal — downplayed the drama.

“There’s a lot of discussion about what’s real and what’s not,” he said. “The gamesmanship, the motions — teams are doing outlandish things. The paranoia’s real too.”

The modern game might be kinder and gentler…
but if Naylor keeps flashing signs that loud,
someone’s bound to remind him what old-school really means.

🙈 The Ugly — Gold Diggers & Glory

Here’s an awkward one.

Sacramento River Cats president Chip Maxson was named Minor League Baseball’s Executive of the Year this week.

Yes — the same guy behind the team’s short-lived “Gold Diggers” rebrand.

Supposedly, the rebranding was meant to honor the Gold Rush. Instead, the promo video looked like a bad reality-TV pitch — 💰 dollar-sign eyes, trophy-wife vibes, and one very expensive engagement ring.

The backlash came fast.

Within 24 hours, the River Cats scrubbed every trace of the campaign from the internet — poof, gone — followed by a “we clearly missed the mark” apology.

But Maxson’s honor this week wasn’t about that.

His peer-nominated award — recognizing the top executive among all 120 minor league teams — praised how he handled the A’s move to West Sacramento, completing major renovations at Sutter Health Park without compromising the club’s identity or business model.

That’s no small feat.

And that Gold Diggers fiasco? Gotta give ’em credit — they dumped a bad idea fast.

At this point, they might as well add a new category:

Best in Crisis Management — Presented by Delete History.

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 One for the Road — Derek Gets the Call

Parent-teacher conferences wait for no one —
not even the Captain.

Yankee great Derek Jeter found that out the hard way this week.

He was mid-conversation on Fox’s Mariners–Tigers pregame show
when his phone started buzzing.

Jeter looked down, laughed, and said:
“Sorry, it’s a rain delay.
I’ve got a parent-teacher conference I’m gonna miss.”

The broadcast team lost it.
David Ortiz yelled, “Take it! Take it!” — offering to cover for him.

Jeter conceded, “Actually, I should probably get on it.”

Even with a Hall of Fame career and five rings,
turns out there’s no skipping third-grade math —
not even for the Captain.

That’s a wrap!

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Until next pitch, keep it high and tight.

John Boxley - High N Tight

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