{"id":33216,"date":"2022-06-02T06:01:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T06:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/christopher-morel-just-walked-it-off-in-extra-innings\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T06:01:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T06:01:05","slug":"christopher-morel-just-walked-it-off-in-extra-innings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/christopher-morel-just-walked-it-off-in-extra-innings\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Morel Just Walked It Off in Extra Innings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Outside of a dominant performance from the bullpen tonight, this was a pretty ugly game for the Chicago Cubs all things considered.  But all of the ugliness was QUICKLY erased with the team&#8217;s first walk-off win of the season.  Even better, the game-winning RBI came off the bat of rookie Christopher Morel\u2026 with two strikes against the first place Milwaukee Brewers in extra innings!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"pl\" dir=\"ltr\">[W]alkoff! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vYU9vIhWnH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vYU9vIhWnH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cubs\/status\/1532197984225607683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now THAT&#8217;S what I&#8217;m talking about.  He is just so dang special and fun to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what happened, in case you couldn&#8217;t watch: Jason Heyward started the 10th inning as the freebie runner on second base.  He was advanced to third on Nick Madrigal&#8217;s little dinker to first.  Then, the rookie stepped up to the plate, taking his already-familiar deep breaths between pitches, and delivered a game-winning, walk-off sacrifice fly to left field!<\/p>\n<p>His hitting streak may have come to an end tonight, but his on-base streak stayed alive AND he won the Cubs the game. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cubs\/status\/1532197984225607683?s=20&amp;t=NpGt57whxkGLDCDHbO1uPA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What a moment<\/a>.  I love it.<\/p>\n<p>From the first-at-bat homer to the new Cubs on-base record to begin his career, Christopher Morel has been the spark this team has been seeking all season.  He&#8217;s just a joy.  He&#8217;s so young.  And so far, he&#8217;s been so very good.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some more images from the walkoff, when he was appropriately mobbed by his team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First career walk-off RBI for Christopher Morel! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5fve8qr4tA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5fve8qr4tA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cubs\/status\/1532202611138510848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a little more on Morel&#8217;s start and the Cubs plan for him moving forward.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Christopher Morel&#8217;s Electric Energy and the Plan From Here &#8211; https:\/\/t.co\/k1nPKYtDIL <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ykDqc5n6LW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ykDqc5n6LW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Bleacher Nation (@BleacherNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherNation\/status\/1531691684714557440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside of a dominant performance from the bullpen tonight, this was a pretty ugly game for the Chicago Cubs all things considered. But all of the ugliness was QUICKLY erased with the team&#8217;s first walk-off win of the season. Even better, the game-winning RBI came off the bat of rookie Christopher Morel\u2026 with two strikes &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/christopher-morel-just-walked-it-off-in-extra-innings\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christopher Morel Just Walked It Off in Extra Innings!<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bleachernation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Christopher-Morel.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}