Recounting Carpenter's Epic Home Run Moment

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00:00Absolutely incredible. Absolutely. Positively incredible. I mean, you're not, I wasn't expecting

00:06anything in the beginning, you know, and you get two outs and okay, Jake Rogers. All right.

00:11And he, it's a sharp single. Okay. Well, that's nice. That's nice. Trace winning. I mean,

00:15what's he going to do? He's not gonna be able to get on base and you get carpenter the plate

00:19and he does. And then it's like, okay, all right. Does Kerry Carpenter have a chance

00:24here? And I mean, it's, it's in the back of everybody's mind that there's a chance,

00:30but I mean, I think for the most part, people like not likely, not maybe, maybe it gets

00:35lucky and just kind of punches one over to the third base side. He goes opposite field

00:40and it just kind of drops in for a base hit to bring in Jake Rogers and who nail biter

00:45in the ninth.

00:46If we can hold on to this one, nothing lead, but he turned on it. Yeah. You know, closet

00:51was throwing 101 miles an hour and then throwing this 91, 94 mile an hour slide or whatever

00:57he was in that range. And three in a row, I mean, hitters get a chance to see a pitch

01:04more than once. And then they see it more than twice. Yep. They can catch up to it.

01:08And he did. And he may, he did not miss it. Made no mistake about it. And like I said,

01:14when I saw it, I didn't, when I left the bat, I'm like, that's not going to be strong enough.

01:17Is it? But then dude, a half second later, the bat flip and you know, it's gone. You

01:23don't do the bad flip unless you know, it's gone. I mean, it must've felt so pure for

01:27him. You know, pitch comes in at a high rate of speed, but pitch goes out at 111 miles

01:33an hour. His greatest exit velocity. It's the greatest exit velocity off of any pitch,

01:38a hit off of class a and it gave the tiger the best swing anybody's ever had off this

01:43guy.

01:45And what happened? You know, I don't mess with the mojo. I don't mess with the mojo.

01:49So I was sitting in the same spot on the couch when the tigers won their other two games

01:53against the Astros. Um, we didn't text each other. No three of us. Thank you, Doug. Thank

01:59you. Gator. I can't do it. Can't do it. All right. Thank you. No matter what it was zeros

02:04or the entire game, no one sent a text. Thank you for that. So I'll sit on the couch. And

02:08when the first two outs happened in the ending, I'm like you guys, I'm like everybody else,

02:13you know, no shot, whatever. Rogers gets on base. I mean, that's nice. Okay. You know,

02:17get a, you know, maybe some confidence for the future, the rest of the series when Sweeney

02:21got on base and move Rogers over. I was like you Doug, by the way, when Sweeney hit that,

02:25I'm like, just send Rogers. Cause there's no way this is our last chance. You know,

02:29you have to screw up the relay. They throw it into the first row. Yeah. Maybe you, you

02:34like Rogers shoe on fire at first or something. Yeah. Anything that's get them going. But

02:39of course the smart, he would have been out by a mile, but a smart thing, you'd leave

02:41him at third and you, you hope for the best with Carpenter. Now I do think the Kerry Carpenter

02:47is basically, in my opinion, the only true professional hitter the Tigers have. Okay.

02:52I know Riley green was the all-star and other guys have come up with bigger hits, but I

02:56think the guardians fear Kerry Carpenter by leaving Boyden earlier in the game. So they

03:01wouldn't have to put face Carpenter. And so they know they fear Carpenter. And I think

03:05Carpenter's a really good hitter. That should be feared, especially against right-handed

03:08pitchers. When I felt really good about it, I'm not this guy, you know, there's a guy

03:12who always calls a home run and every player, this one's going up there. He's going to hit

03:17a home run. Oh, Sweeney's he's going to hit a home run. No, I'm not that guy. But after

03:21the first two pitches were outside and I felt like, well, he's going to have to throw a

03:25strike at some point. He's going to maybe groove one in there. And Carpenter is going

03:28to have him timed up. I felt, I didn't, I didn't think he was going to hit a home run,

03:32but I felt really strong about his at bat and Gator. You're right. He didn't swing like,

03:37you know, right. Green takes a huge, massive cut. Yeah. That's not Kerry Carpenter style.

03:42He has his smooth swing and right in the wheelhouse. And that thing was pure. Like you said, right

03:48in the barrel of the bat, sweet spot. Goodbye. I mean, it's one of those hits that you probably

03:53don't even feel it off the bat because it's just so perfect and pure. And thank you, Kerry

03:58Carpenter for doing it. He is the best pure hitter on the team against right-handers.

04:02Yes. I know his numbers against left-handers are not nearly as good, but there's no question

04:07that, I mean, there's nobody you'd rather have in a situation with a right-hand pitcher on the

04:11mound than Kerry Carpenter. Cause he just kills right-handers. It's like if left-handers on,

04:16on the Hill, probably nobody you'd rather have than Andy Ibanez because he kills left-handers,

04:21which is crazy to think Andy Ibanez is that guy, but he is that guy. And Carpenter is that guy

04:26against, against righties. Hopefully in years to come, he develops a better approach against

04:32lefties and he can stay in games and show that he's even better.

04:37Doug, it would've been awesome if you were outside and you yelled, right? You yelled

04:40outside. You should have kept yelling, stayed out there and see if anyone would've joined you.

04:44It was funny because I wanted to get back in and see the game, but I was like, I did run out,

04:49I popped my fist, I ran all the way out to the sidewalk and I kind of looked around and I'm like,

04:54so it's just me, huh? And I'm like, okay, that's cool. I wouldn't expect anybody else to run

05:00outside. But then my wife was on a live zoom call and, and I think, yeah, so I just, I turned and

05:06made my way back into the house. I actually missed the Veerling single, to be honest,

05:10but I was out there for a minute. Hey, I gotta tell you, it was, uh, it was quite a moment,

05:20but I'll do what we did last week. Where were you now when it was a, it's a four o'clock start.

05:26So a lot of people probably did get home, but where were you when Kerry Carpenter launched

05:33that early Monday evening moonshot into right field? Uh, where were you?

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