Watching The Almost PERFECT Game At Tropicana Field - Tampa Bay Rays Drew Rasmussen Teases No Hitter
The Almost Perfect Game
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welcome everyone Adam the Wu here has
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the recording of the Sunday August 14th
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it is 1 37 p.m I impulsively decided
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this morning to drive over to Saint Pete
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to go to the last game of the series
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against the Baltimore Orioles Tampa Bay
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Rays first pitch at 141 traffic wasn't
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bad
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only took me about an hour and 30
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minutes hour and 40 minutes from
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celebration to St Pete but parking
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around here right before first pitch
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quite an experience
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I don't think I'm gonna make first pitch
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but I probably will get in there before
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the race take the bat in the bottom of
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the first
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I don't know where the rest of the day
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is going to progress I don't know what
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I'm going to do the whole day this might
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I might end up doing a bunch of other
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stuff but I felt like going to the game
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and I am I'm inviting you to join me I
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gotta get in there shall you now
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normally when I do something I usually
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do not show up right when it is
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beginning I'm kind of a early bird gets
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the worm
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good guy but you know this was impulsive
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didn't think I was going to do this
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until very very short time ago but I'm
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doing it and arriving right when it
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begins and it's good to know I'm not the
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only one arriving fashionably on time
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first pitch was one minute ago and
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there's a flood of people heading out
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and some birds making some noise up
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there are some seagulls I will be
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sitting in section 110 today which are
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pretty decent seats kind of close to the
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raised dugout
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kind of catty corner to that behind home
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plate sort of a few rows back
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I don't know five or six rows back I
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think I'm in rope
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one time all right four minutes late for
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me that's that's an eternity I'm not
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used to walking into something for a few
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minutes after it starts all right I am
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in welcome to Tropicana Field the rays
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are welcoming me I wonder if Brandon's
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gonna be in the lineup today I looked at
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it earlier G-Man I think is leading off
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and waiting for Manny Margo Manuel Margo
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to come back off the IL that'll be
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pretty awesome hopefully in the next
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week or two we got the starburst down
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here gotta find my seats passing by
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Raymond's Turf I'm gonna go up the
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escalator the entrance I walked in Gate
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one you end up going in through the
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center field so I'm gonna go up the ramp
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center field and then find my seats all
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right it looks like Randy is up right
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now so batting's there is like the first
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two batters for the Rays were were
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gotten out it's zero zero so not in here
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in the first inning and take a look over
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here on usual sight and right field
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Brett Phillips different number for the
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Orioles 66
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former Ray in right field there's Brett
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down there in the starting lineup that
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is so unusual to see him in Orioles gear
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all right into the second
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it's her over there
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all right at least there's no score no
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action has happened yet and rasmussen's
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on the mound today and I'm pretty close
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to home plate
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incredible oh
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come on
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I'm kind of tempted to get a bottle of
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water and some peanuts since the guys
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right here with the food
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I'm also kind of in the mood for
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something at the snack bar a little bit
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later so I think I'm gonna wait a little
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bit see how the game progresses and
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that's okay
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Siri gets the first yesterday sold two
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bases second answer see what happens and
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g-man's in the on Deck Circle right now
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yeah
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oh that was a strike
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all right
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I think Taylor Falls
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oh wow
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dang it
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you two guys stranded we're two outs
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here oh
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rushed it that was awesome freaking
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Randy's been on fire
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ah all right time for a little snack
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over here at the first base Food Hall
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not really in the mood for bird or
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batter or even a hot dog I'm thinking
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maybe getting a little personal size
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pizza and a soda pop and they also have
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pretzels well they have one pretzel left
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here at the bavarium pretzel stand we're
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not going to get a pretzel and then over
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there they also have the the raised
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helmets that have the popcorn or you can
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get it without the helmet I'm not gonna
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get popcorn either just a pizza and a
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beverage and some peanut butter it's
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interesting how all the seeds obviously
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have a different view but a different
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feel to them like an extreme right way
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out there down the first base line there
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are no cup holders like this there are
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cup holders kind of everywhere else but
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just not white kind of in the extreme
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Outfield so I'm going to put this here
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and remember it is there's no such thing
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as double dipping if you take the whole
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garlic sauce this little special garlic
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sauce double dipping with the
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unboxing here
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Pizza put four little slices and they
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have clumped up all the pepperoni on
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side of each other so I guess if you
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want to the pepperoni around you
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kind of got to do it on your on your own
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accord
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while I did that the Orioles were up
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three up three down
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I know it's only the fourth inning but
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Rasmus has got a no hitter going yeah
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it's only the 14th yeah this pizza is
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super
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super cheesy and greasy too look at all
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the grease on it
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that's a double double for Mejia
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yeah Drew's doing really good on the
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mound today
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into the fifth two outs still no hits at
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this moment
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let's try it see if you can complete
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this three up three down
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oh yeah that's how it's done
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oh got it the empire
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he's going
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doubled it up
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nope just got just one not the one
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didn't get it at first
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there it is
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Peralta with an RBI out to left
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makes half four to nothing all right
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went ahead and tapped into my peanuts
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Warriors are back up which means they're
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asking some back on the mount
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as long as it keeps it going and cash
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doesn't pull him
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strike
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that's an out it's an out two no way
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look who it is
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right
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maybe not I don't know if his heart
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doesn't go that way
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it's kind of strange seeing Drew against
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Brett in this battle
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I'm using the peanuts as a transition
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but also look who it is right here it's
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cowbell Max
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in the house I would have never known it
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was you if you didn't have your your
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jersey on I mean I would have known it
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was here I'm just we did a whole road
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trip together I would hope that never
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was here pitch count is insane what's
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his pitch count at 56. so is it too
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early to kind of I don't want to like I
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don't want to mess it up by by saying in
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the seventh inning that maybe he'll get
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a no hit is it too early to start hoping
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it's definitely it's definitely not too
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early I'm starting to get the
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butterflies you know he's got to be
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feeling the butterflies
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they're in the seven two out two strikes
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oh oh you got this
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popped it up
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which brings it up to the seventh inning
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stretch Raymond up there kind of busting
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a move dancing a little bit up on the up
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on the top of the Dugout seventh inning
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stretch rays are about to be back up
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oh
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Raymond just flashed G-Man
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oh wait let me flash that guy
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hey on to the eighth and Drew has only
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thrown 65 pitches so far six outs
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remaining
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got it Taylor
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imagine the butterflies going through
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his stomach right now
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oh he has another one well I need four
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more outs
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all right people up on their feet here
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it's only the eighth inning
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all rooting for Drew here
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what just happened
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what happened he checked the swing but
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he went too far and they still called
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him
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happened not all
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right that's it oh yeah
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three more
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oh yeah
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perfect game in the work okay back to
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the peanut transition here now the rays
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are back up but I kind of want them to
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just have a quick little up and down
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that way Drew can get back on the mound
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without sitting in the Dugout too much
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she know he's in the Dugout right now
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sweating
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profusely stressing out he just probably
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wants to get back on the mound all right
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ninth inning only three outs needed
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no bro
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man into the ninth almost a no-hitter
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throwing the ball in to Mark the ball
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I thought he was gonna get to know now
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no freaking way and what would have been
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the final out
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Brett Phillips at the plate but there's
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only one out now guy on third now
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oh no
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foreign
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's on their feet
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amazing pitching performance
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I drew Rasmussen gave up one hit and
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he's getting pulled by cash
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incredible okay Jason Adam is now on the
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mound to close this thing out it's four
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to one
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go ahead and just end this thing
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about Phillips on First with G-Man
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they're probably catching up on talking
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about old times in here and Brett did
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strike out but it was kind of a wild
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pitch so he made it to first because it
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all went to the backstop just need Jason
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Adam to close this out
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now as much as I would have loved to
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seen a perfect game or a no-hitter the
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show always has been one hit that one
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hit was the Orioles didn't get into that
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one run but it's about to end right now
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but that's it
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Rays take the series 2-1 and win this
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game four to one Rasmussen with an
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incredible pitching matchup pitching
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game and it is pretty good to get a
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raise win and Advance them up I think
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they're now a game and a half above
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Baltimore they're in third place now and
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the Ala is trying to clinch
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uh not necessarily a division because I
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think the Yankees are still 10 games
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ahead of everyone
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and then a little more than that above
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the race
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but they inch their way up and the AL
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East trying to get that division wild
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card or the wild card if I get to the
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postseason which I am really excited
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about like the good things ahead for the
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Rays nothing to take away from uh from a
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one-hitter would have been nice to get
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the
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Rasmussen to get the the no-hitter of
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the perfect game but a one-hitter is
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pretty dang incredible good to see the
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high fives out there and everyone on the
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team giving them hugs I'm sure he I'm
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sure he's feeling it sure he wanted it
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more than anything but the Rays win the
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Rays win a Tropicana Field
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like these trees here in this front
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Courtyard also
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also Randy right there crushed the three
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run Grand Slam now Kiermaier on the far
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end there you see Randy's there in the
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middle here Myers on the end
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he was actually seeing the game last
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night he was on crutches he's on the IL
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and then Wanda Franco who's on the other
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end of the banners should be back in a
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couple weeks hopefully off the Android
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list see what happens and you can say I
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wore an appropriate t-shirt
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because this is my Randy rosarina shirt
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he was accountable for three of the four
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runs today which is pretty awesome
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now if for some reason the no-hitter
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would have happened not even the perfect
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game but even the no-hitter that would
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have been the second one this year that
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I would have seen I saw one in Anaheim
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but the Angels threw against the race
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coincidentally when I went to the race
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Angel series earlier this year the Rays
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were getting defeated pretty badly by a
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number of runs
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and fun fact they also put Brett
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Phillips in
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in that series I as well
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but the Angels threw a no-hitter so I
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would have seen the Angels throw one and
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the race throw one I was really rooting
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for the Rays to get one today and the
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perfect game I don't think the rates
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have ever had a perfect game in
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franchise history
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there's always next time though and
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that's going to do it for today from
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Tropicana Field I'm gonna head home now
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and soak in the fact that I almost saw I
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really saw a perfect game incredible
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okay
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I'll see you in the next video
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oh this guy is it's funny
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this parking lot guy is bringing the
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crowd over here one thing that was
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pretty awesome about being in there
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was just how loud it was getting how
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everyone was like on their feet and
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getting excited kind of remind me of
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like you know it's an event where
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something like that happens when you
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think history is going to be made
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something like that doesn't happen too
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often
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kind of reminded me of the excitement
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that was inside here during the American
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League Division Series last year that's
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why I love stuff like that I love it
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when you know baseball sometimes has
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some slow moments During certain points
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of the game but when it gets good it
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gets
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really good
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and also you know think about it's cool
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about a no-hitter it's one of the one of
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the times that really attention is taken
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away from The Hitter what I could see
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home runs home runs are awesome you know
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hits doubles triples stolen bases are
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great but it's nice when the pitcher
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gets some serious recognition and a lot
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of standing ovations and cheers and
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things like that too
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well that's gonna do it for today
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or Tropicana Field
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the sight of a one-hitter
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almost a perfect game almost a no-hitter
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I'll see you next video
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the Vlog
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is over