It's amazing that such a young man was able to stay so relatively composed throughout the play. A number of professional announcers would probably have broken down into hysterics a quarter of the way through. At one point, it's almost fair to ask if he's really grasping what's going on because he's so calm. Of course, in the end, his emotion gets the best of him and he gives a rather memorable finale to his call.

It's obviously a fluke play, but one that will live on in youtube and sports fame for a long time to come.

The American League has dominated for many years now. Every inter-league form of play bears this out: the All-Star Game, the World Series, and Interleague Play. Your DH statistic is not surprising. I wonder if you could break the difference down, it might be something as simple as the fact that the Yankees and the Red Sox (the two teams with the biggest payrolls) are both in the American League.

If that play amazed you, thrilled you, made you want more...watch rugby.

I've always thought the DH gave the AL teams an advantage - after all, the top AL teams have great great hitters at DH (Papi, Hafner, Giambi). NL teams just plug in a bench guy. Of course, NL teams are free to sign an extra big bat just like AL teams, but that probably doesn't make much practical sense (in addition to ticking off the guy sitting on the bench w/ a 900 OPS).

To be fair, and I think I speak for all Millsaps Majors fans here, there must have been.

I'm not so sure. As touch football players will know, and as you see in the replay, there's hardly any blocking; instead, there is a concerted effort by the non-ball carrier to position themselves behind the ball.

It was striking to see how many players had given up on the play - either from fatigue or disgust; the last player to catch the lateral (actually a bouncing fumble) was standing right next to a purple jerseyed player who simply watched him and made no effort to tackle.

What is surprising is why this never happens in the NFL, where - to the extent there is a last second desperation lateral, it ends up being to a player right behind the ball carrier going the same direction (when, in fact, the key to making this work is mis-directions and cross field laterals).

this is what I read salon for...some oddball nugget like that link to the miracle lateral play. And your commentary had me laughing out of my chair...and NFL official would absolutely have thrown a flag, on general principles..

Thanks for the endorphin rush..

....how about Raikkonen’s f1 championship! Sure, Hamilton may have choked, but the betting markets correctly gave up on Lewis in the last few races. Raikkonen apparently justified himself as being the highest paid individual in sports this year.

Taking absolutely nothing away from Trinity's grit and resoursefulness, I have to agree with 3pointshooter- if one Millsap player had remembered how to tackle, none of us would ever see this tape. I can imagine every high school head coach using this tape to punctuate the inevitable "never give up" speech, and every high school defensive coach coach in the country using this tape to remind his players of why tackling drills matter...

It's not surprising that a kid made the call better than at least one announcer with a regular paying job: Joe Starkey. Starkey's a buffoon, to put it kindly. It has been 25 years since he made The Call of The Play; you wonder how much longer he can continue to make a living on his single non-mediocre moment.

DH in the National League park, no DH in the American League park. At least it'll swing whatever inequity there might be a few percentage points.

while of an age that somehow requires i can never see the idea of a dh as anything other than a distasteful gimmick, i've always believed there to be little difference one way or the other in the world series. while an nl team likely won't have a bench player the equal of the elite dh's, most that make the series should have a worthy bat to plug in in the al parks, and if the al team's dh is not one of those elites, i'd expect the differences to be slight. and assuming that the range of hitting ability for al pitchers is similar to that of nl pitchers were they to have to hit, there'd be a fairly approximate off-setting advantage to the nl just from the greater familiarity and comfort level provided by handling a bat throughout the year (keeping in mind it's mostly just the starting pitchers that really matter here statistically - i doubt many relievers get more than a handful of plate appearances in a given year).

maybe it's been done, but to sort the statistics, wouldn't it be useful to look at the regular season interleague stats as well as the series? if the al has the same advantage in w/l percentage home and away in the regular season over the same years then it would seem it's just better teams for that time period, rather than anything to do with the dh. but if the pattern remains similar, with that al home bump consistent it might indicate some kind of significance.

but even if so, as steve marriot wondered, "whatcha gonna do about it, whatcha gonna do?"

maybe the nl team could be allowed to pick up one of the dh's from the al also-rans and sign him on as a temporary employee just for the series. just imagine, the yankee dh could get another shot at knocking off the red sox, or vice versa, and even make a few extra bucks.

missing, and that is a stanford marching band member getting roughed up. had i known this was going to happen, i would have bought the band tickets to the game.