Performance Evaluation: A Look at the Season's Best Wins

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00:00Hey baseball fans, let's talk about a wild piece of history that sounds like it's straight

00:05out of a movie script.

00:06This is about the one and only time a position player took the mound in an MLB postseason

00:11game.

00:11The scene was set at Dodger Stadium October 7, 2017.

00:15It was Game 2 of the National League Division Series.

00:18The Arizona Diamondbacks were visiting the Los Angeles Dodgers, and things were not going

00:23well for the D-backs.

00:24The Dodgers' offense was absolutely relentless.

00:26By the top of the ninth inning the score was a brutal 8-1 for Arizona.

00:30The game was far out of reach, so, Diamondbacks manager Torrey Lovullo made a call to the bullpen

00:35that you almost never see in October.

00:37He signaled for his utility infielder Daniel Descalso.

00:41That's right, Descalso, who had played second base and left field earlier in the game, was

00:46now coming in to pitch.

00:47His mission, simply to save the arms of the actual relief pitchers with the series moving

00:51to Arizona.

00:53Descalso towed the rubber and here's what happened in that historic inning.

00:56He faced four Dodgers batters, he gave up a double to the first batter he saw, Curtis

01:01Granderson, then he managed to get Yasiel Puig to fly out.

01:05But next up was Charlie Culberson, who took Descalso deep for a two-run homer, making it

01:108-3.

01:11He finally ended the inning by getting Austin Barnes to ground out, his final line for that

01:16postseason appearance on the mound.

01:181.0 inning pitched, two hits allowed, two earned runs, zero walks, zero strikeouts, and

01:25that one homerun.

01:26He threw 19 pitches, 12 of them for strikes.

01:30So, while his pitching stats aren't pretty, Daniel Descalso forever etched his name in

01:35the MLB record books that night.

01:37He became the first non-pitcher to pitch in a postseason game since 1924, and the very first

01:42position player to do it in a division series game, it's a quirky, fun footnote in playoff

01:47history.

01:48A moment of pure necessity that gave us something totally unexpected.

01:52It makes you wonder, in today's game with such specialized rosters, will we ever see a

01:56manager make a call like that in a playoff game again?

01:59What do you think?

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