""I thought we lost. I took a bad jump because Ernie Clement took that half-swing thing, and it looked, from left field, like it was going to bounce. So I figured he's going to dump another one in front of me like he did seven times. So I half-step in and then I'm like, 'Oh, no. This ball is really far away from me.'""
""So I'm running full speed, World Series on the line, and I'm like, 'I need to catch this. If I've got to run through a wall, I'll run through a wall.' And then I'm like, 'Alright, I got it.' I'm slowing down and I'm about to pull a Willie Mays catch, and out of nowhere I got posterized.""
""My first thought was I had it, he jumped over me, now we lost. So I'm on the ground and I hear silence. But I think it's because my brain is protecting me from heartbreak and we had just lost the World Series. Then Pages came and asked me, 'Are you OK?' I was like, 'Forget about me. Did"
Game 7 between the Dodgers and Blue Jays reached extra innings after critical ninth-inning defensive plays preserved the Dodgers' season. Miguel Rojas and Andy Pages executed game-saving plays when the Blue Jays loaded the bases. Pages replaced Tommy Edman in center field for better arm and range and ran 121 feet to make a collision catch off a flyout to center. Kiké Hernández briefly lay on the warning track appearing injured but later explained he misjudged the play, thought the Dodgers had lost, and felt his brain muted reality until teammates checked on him.
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