High N Tight Sunday

🧢 First Pitch — Brewers Win

Somewhere, Bob Uecker is smiling this morning.
Milwaukee is celebrating.

His beloved Brewers beat the Cubs in Game Five, earning a date with the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series.

It didn’t have the late-inning drama we’ve seen all week — but the Brewers will take it.

And if you love bullpen games, this one was for you. Both teams emptied their pens — eleven pitchers in all — a revolving door of arms until the final out.

In a jubilant locker room, manager Pat Murphy addressed his team. With a bottle of champagne in hand, Murphy said, “All year long, they called us the average Joes. Today, you’re the not-so-fricking-average Joes.”

You tell ’em, Pat!

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 that absurd rotation — Snell, Yamamoto, Ohtani, Glasnow — and 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.
October always finds room for both — sometimes in the same inning.

Tonight, the American League Championship kicks off in Toronto, with the Blue Jays hosting the battle-tested Seattle Mariners — who survived Friday’s 15-inning marathon to beat the Tigers and earn their first trip to the ALCS in more than 20 years.

Buckle up — October’s just getting started.

🟢 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.

👎 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 — Blame It on Karen

It was a brutal week in Philadelphia.

A botched grounder ended the Phillies’ season and sent the Dodgers moving on — but don’t tell Philly fans it was pitching, defense, or clutch hitting that did them in.

Nope. It was all Karen’s fault. Karen?

Yeah — that Karen. The Phillies fan who tried to wrestle a home run ball away from a dad and his kid down in Miami. She lost the ball, flipped the bird, and became an instant meme.

Fans swear that’s when it all went south — the exact moment the season went off the rails.

Now, after getting bounced from the playoffs, the fanbase has spoken.
One fan posted, “Karma always wins. She ruined any chance of their season ending well.”

If Karen had just come through with a couple of clutch hits — or maybe fielded that grounder cleanly — Philly might still be playing baseball next week

⚾ 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.

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