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Evan & Tiki

Anthony Volpe Swings at a First Pitch to End the Game

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.6945 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Evan and Shaun argue over whether or not Anthony Volpe should have been swinging on the first pitch in the 10th inning last night

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0:00.0

Now, poor Anthony Volpe's taking a beating from all corners.

0:03.0

We'll get to him swinging at the first pitch in the bottom of the 11th.

0:06.9

In that sequence with Dominguez running, he ran on a 2-1 pitch, and Volpe got a fastball up, and he fouled it off.

0:15.5

Dominguez, by the way, almost got doubled up because he dove into third base, got off, and was like, what the hell just happened?

0:21.4

If that ball was caught in foul territory, it would have been a double play.

0:25.1

But I can't even kill Volpe for that either, because it's a two-one count.

0:29.4

It's a fast ball up against a tough customer in Kenley-Jansson.

0:32.9

So if Dominguez is going to try to steal third, which I'm not against, do it early in the count.

0:39.0

My biggest issue with that was just the lack of communication.

0:42.3

And maybe that's solely on Dominguez.

0:44.3

Maybe that's from the dugout.

0:46.1

Oh, he's running on his own.

0:47.1

I think that's obvious.

0:47.8

So if he's running on its own, then it's on him in that spot.

0:51.0

Somebody's got to give some kind of signal like, hey, if he goes, sees, you got to take there, because it's not a strikeout if you take the pitch spot.

0:57.5

He takes third there, it stops the whole, what happened with him.

1:00.8

How is Volpe supposed to know that?

1:03.4

Seriously, you're, it's Kinley Jansen, so you know you're getting a lot of heat.

1:08.3

How can you keep your eye on, Dominguez through the pitcher and then

1:15.0

make a decision that's happening in a split second? I agree with you. That's like almost impossible.

1:19.3

Old school baseball. It's the, you know, the hand on the nose, rubbing down the pant leg. Yeah. Do they

1:24.1

do that anymore? I don't think. Well, then that's an issue. To me, when you're bad at small ball stuff, maybe you need to go back to some of that stuff because that's horrible miscommunication.

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