Crazed Mariners broadcaster leaking onto depressed Astros call is best moment of 2025

The diving catch and double play that Victor Robles pulled off on Saturday to secure the Seattle Mariners' victory over the Houston Astros was, on its face, absolutely incredible. It's also proving to be a gift that keeps on giving.

A while after it happened, another angle came out that underscored the heroism of the moment for Robles. Also going viral has been the footage of the play from the perspective of the Astros' booth — wherein Todd Kalas' sullen call is crashed by the unmistakable and very loud voice of Root Sports play-by-play man Aaron Goldsmith.

Courtesy of the Cespedes Family BBQ account on X, here's the clip:

The energy is there for Kalas at first, but it deflates right as Robles makes the catch and lobs the ball toward second to double off Jake Meyers. That's when you can hear Goldsmith losing his mind as he screams, "Victor Robles makes the catch and THAT is the ballgame!"

Folks, this is just good comedy. One can easily imagine Goldy crashing other famously sad calls from history, such as John Sterling's call of Freddie Freeman's walk-off grand slam from last year's World Series or even the Baumer meltdown from The Royal Tenenbaums.

Aaron Goldsmith provides Mariners fans with an unexpected treat amid sweep

Not that Mariners fans needed anything else now that the World Series hype train is going full-throttle, but this really feels like icing on the proverbial cake after the Mariners finished off a three-game sweep of Houston on Sunday.

More than that, it feels like a microcosm of what the series was all about for Seattle.

At least by regular season standards, the stakes could not have been higher. The Mariners and Astros entered tied for first place in the AL West and in their season series with five wins apiece. The winner of the series would have an open gate to the division title.

Yet it was the Astros who felt like the gatekeeper. The series was in their backyard, after all, and they stood to summon all the energy of an eight-year run that had seen them win the AL West seven times. Had the Mariners lost the series, injury and insult would have gone hand in hand.

Instead...well, we all saw what happened. And in Goldsmith shouting his way through Kalas' call, you can indeed hear the significance of it. No matter how badly they didn't want it to happen, the Astros were powerless to stop the Mariners from finally putting the AL West under new management.