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 						<p>Sheer poetry.</p>
 							<p>It is difficult to explain how clutch Pages’ catch was to people who haven’t seen the game. Noting that it took the Dodgers’ win probability from 34% win probability to 50% might go some part of the way toward explaining it, but if you haven’t seen the replay, that still doesn’t do it justice. Pages covered 40.3 yards in 5.5 seconds &ndash; a whopping 21.98 ft/s (6.694 m/s), or 15.00 mph (24.00 kph). That might not be NFL wide receiver-caliber running, but wide receivers rarely have to make 40-yard dashes while tracking fly balls, much less while knowing they’re going to collide with a teammate, much less while knowing if they don’t catch the ball, they’ll lose the postseason. It has been called <a href="https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/sports/columns/2025/11/06/dodgers-andy-pages-world-series-catch-alabama-georgia-fsu/87050685007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the greatest defensive play in baseball history</a>, partly for its improbability, partly for its timing (The Catch happened in Game 1).</li>
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+				<p class="margintop15">Finally, Roberts took Yamamoto out of Game 6 after he’d thrown 96 pitches. At the time, he publicly claimed Yamamoto was the <em>only</em> pitcher who wouldn’t be available in Game 7. Yamamoto’s response is already legendary: <span class="toc-counter">「負けるわけにはいかない。」</span> (His interpreter translated this <span class="toc-counter">“Losing is not an option,”</span> although it has been argued that <span class="toc-counter">“I can’t afford to lose”</span> or <span class="toc-counter">“I must not lose”</span> would be somewhat more accurate.)</p>
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+				<p> Roberts had to have known that Yamamoto had thrown as many as 140 pitches in a game in Japan, and he also had to know what effect seeing Yamamoto warm up would have on Toronto in the heat of the moment. (I’ve seen several people call him the final boss of the World Series.) Was Roberts making a galaxy-brain play by preserving his team’s best pitcher for the most important moments of the final game and not telling anyone? At this point, I wouldn’t put it past him.</p>
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