Guardians celebrate 'awesome' Lane Thomas after grand slam heroics

The Cleveland Guardians praised Lane Thomas after his grand slam heroics fired them to the ALCS

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00:00I'm not taking it for granted at all like this is a special thing to be a part of for sure

00:05And it has been a ton of fun like great atmosphere is both home and on the road

00:09And now going on the road again like anticipating the same that was awesome I mean so much fun to watch like what a

00:14Timely hit

00:15Huge you know for the momentum to you know just to

00:18Shift things in and kind of really feel like we're rolling

00:22Just awesome

00:23Yeah kinda that same energy when I saw David's hit in Detroit hit it good had a good angle

00:29That left the wall is always kind of scary cuz it's taller than all other ones so

00:32Just wanna get back for a tag up but seeing that ball fly over the wall was awesome

00:38Yeah you know

00:39I don't even know if I have the words to answer that question but

00:43You know you dream of at bats like that as a little kid and you know to do it at this stage in this game

00:49You know to come through for the guys in the clubhouse it feels awesome

00:51Lane has just been obviously had a great series for us you know the two biggest hits

00:55Lane is a phenomenal baseball player and we're thankful we got him

01:01Yeah I mean the guy is a pro in and out I just have to imagine so hard when you have your routines and you have an area that you know

01:08And people that you know and then just getting plunged into our world

01:12He's been awesome and especially with kind of our team being so young he's really the veteran presence in our locker room that we really need

01:17If you look at Lane's journey with us you know he gets here comes out with a bang gets a hit in his first game big game

01:24Second game

01:26And then he struggled and he wasn't playing every day

01:29And then he steps up and I can't take him out of the lineup and that's what big time players do

01:35They step up and they get it done

01:38We're playing a very very good Yankee team you know we've seen them in the regular season

01:43This is one of the most talented teams in the league so we know we have our work cut out for us

01:49We're gonna enjoy tonight and when we wake up tomorrow it's go time