We can show you the film, slowed down, frame by frame. Measure the feet outfielders cover, the miles per hour balls travel. We can quantify the bend of every pitch inch by inch. It’s easy to get lost in the granular with baseball. He hit it, right? That’s all that matters.” I’d have to watch it,” Romano said, kicking at the carpet beneath him. And the first pitch slider to Adam Frazier that produced the winning run.ĭid Romano leave that pitch to Frazier a little bit too high? In a little too risky of a spot down-and-in to a left-handed hitter? That elevated heater in a fastball count to Cal Raleigh he’d like to have back. The 1-2 slider to strike out Carlos Santana the 2-2 slider that got Dylan Moore. Why bother? He remembered some of the pitches. Leaning on his locker nearly an hour after the final out of the Toronto Blue Jays 2022 season was recorded, Romano still hadn’t watched any of it back. “I just feel like I let everyone down after a really long, fun season,” Romano said. And so, as the final four Seattle Mariners crossed home Saturday, completing one of the most insane and improbable postseason comebacks in MLB history, Jordan Romano was on the mound. They begin the chain of events that are remembered forever. TORONTO - It is the privilege and bane of MLB closers that, when the most meaningful moments and fate-changing postseason events occur, they’re the ones with the ball in their hand.
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