The Philadelphia Phillies Prove That Whatever Can Happen Will Happen After Pulling Off The Rare Walk-Off Catcher's Interference
Icon Sportswire. Getty Images.If there's been one common theme throughout this Philadelphia Phillies season, it's been finding new ways to end baseball games. Some of those ways have been exciting, some of those ways have been excruciating, and some of those ways have been so ridiculously bizarre that it makes you realize what a strange little game baseball is.
It started off early in the year when the Phillies were able to hand the Dodgers their first loss of the year with a "strike 'em out, throw 'em out".
That was awesome. A little less awesome was a few weeks ago when the Phillies lost in San Francisco after giving up a walk-off 3-run inside the park home run.
Even in the All-Star Game, the Phillies were the main character when Kyle Schwarber lead the NL to a win after going 3/3 in the Swing Off.
So now that brings us to last night. Phillies vs Red Sox. It's the bottom of the 10th with bases loaded, and nobody out. Any normal team would take this as a perfect opportunity to just swing for contact, and hope to loop something deep into the outfield to win off a sac fly. But the Phillies aren't a normal team. They knew there are so many different ways to win this baseball game, but they still decided to go off the board here with nothing that anbody under the age of 50 has ever seen before.
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We live in an infinite universe filled with infinite possibilities. At some point in some pocket of the universe, anything that could ever possibly happen will happen. There's never a fully non-zero chance of anything happening. Sure, it might be a 0.000001% chance of it happening. But that still means that there's a chance. And if there's a chance, then the Phillies are going to find a way to pull it off.
Think about how many baseball games have been played since 1971. Every year there are a total of 2,430 games played in an MLB regular season. That means there have been 131,220 total games played during those 54 years, if we just pretend like there wasn't a strike in 1994 or a few shortened COVID seasons. And for the first time in those 131,220 games, a team has won a game on a walk-off catcher's interference.
Say whatever you want about the Phillies, but they'll always manage to keep things interesting. It's just starting to get a little scary because I feel like they're running out of ways to end baseball games. I can only imagine what type of shit they come up with when they truly have to invent a new way to win that has never happened before.