brighton would have lost the game too with runners at corners 0 outs. Buck had the bottom of the order and rightfully brought Baldi in. He was saving zach for next ab's. he made the right decision.
bottom line, jiminez had nothing tonight.
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brighton would have lost the game too with runners at corners 0 outs. Buck had the bottom of the order and rightfully brought Baldi in. He was saving zach for next ab's. he made the right decision.
Lack of small ball will bite both these teams. Always going for the three run homerun
I know these pens are good, and doing well tonight. But these offenses aren't doing anything to try and manufacture runs. The situational hitting is poor.
If it wasn't for HR's, there'd be no runs at all. This is today's MLB. It's why they realized they needed to use a Titleist.
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Quote Originally Posted by undermysac:
Quote Originally Posted by chuckles394:
Lack of small ball will bite both these teams. Always going for the three run homerun
I know these pens are good, and doing well tonight. But these offenses aren't doing anything to try and manufacture runs. The situational hitting is poor.
If it wasn't for HR's, there'd be no runs at all. This is today's MLB. It's why they realized they needed to use a Titleist.
Originally Posted by chuckles394] Lack of small ball will bite both these teams. Always going for the three run homerun
Quote Originally Posted by LogCottage:
I know these pens are good, and doing well tonight. But these offenses aren't doing anything to try and manufacture runs. The situational hitting is poor. If it wasn't for HR's, there'd be no runs at all. This is today's MLB. It's why they realized they needed to use a Titleist.
Sac and LC both hit the nail on the head, and forgetting one other move that could very well have this entire Thread bashing Gibbons instead- especially all the conspiracy theorists about Buck throwing the game
What about the bottom of ninth with Donaldson on second and no outs and not even attempting to play small ball to get the win???
Granted you have three of this years MLB top 10 HR hitters (Joey Bats out 8 weeks and still had 22- amortize over the year, he's close) coming up in the ninth, but once Donaldson doubles, everything changes. So O's walk Encarnacion. You sit Bautista and bring your fastest, best sac bunter off the bench, and get him to move Donaldson to third (This is the spot they should have saved Upton Jr. for- besides, Bautista is one of the worse Jays base runners over the last five years). Worst case scenario you have runners on second and third with one out. Heck, they may have bases loaded with no outs. If this team can't get a runner home from third with one out, (what about a passed ball or wild pitch??) they don't deserve to be there anyway.
Bottom line is Jays more than likely win in ninth and nobody is second guessing Buck, in fact had the Orioles scored in the top of tenth, then bring Britton in, this whole Thread would be bashing Gibbons and praising Schowalter
In fact, I can't believe a lesson wasn't learned from the same blunder by the Mariners on Saturday in almost the exact scenario (Mariners were down by one) where Gamel singled to lead off the bottom of tenth and immediately got to second on a wild pitch. M's have Cano, Cruz and Seager coming up with no outs and Servais let them swing away with Cano grounding out to third, so Gamel doesn't move. Cruz grounds out to pitcher and Seager flies out to end their game AND any chance the Mariners had for post season play. Maybe had they played small ball, THEY would be playing tonight instead
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QUOTE Originally Posted by undermysac:
Originally Posted by chuckles394] Lack of small ball will bite both these teams. Always going for the three run homerun
Quote Originally Posted by LogCottage:
I know these pens are good, and doing well tonight. But these offenses aren't doing anything to try and manufacture runs. The situational hitting is poor. If it wasn't for HR's, there'd be no runs at all. This is today's MLB. It's why they realized they needed to use a Titleist.
Sac and LC both hit the nail on the head, and forgetting one other move that could very well have this entire Thread bashing Gibbons instead- especially all the conspiracy theorists about Buck throwing the game
What about the bottom of ninth with Donaldson on second and no outs and not even attempting to play small ball to get the win???
Granted you have three of this years MLB top 10 HR hitters (Joey Bats out 8 weeks and still had 22- amortize over the year, he's close) coming up in the ninth, but once Donaldson doubles, everything changes. So O's walk Encarnacion. You sit Bautista and bring your fastest, best sac bunter off the bench, and get him to move Donaldson to third (This is the spot they should have saved Upton Jr. for- besides, Bautista is one of the worse Jays base runners over the last five years). Worst case scenario you have runners on second and third with one out. Heck, they may have bases loaded with no outs. If this team can't get a runner home from third with one out, (what about a passed ball or wild pitch??) they don't deserve to be there anyway.
Bottom line is Jays more than likely win in ninth and nobody is second guessing Buck, in fact had the Orioles scored in the top of tenth, then bring Britton in, this whole Thread would be bashing Gibbons and praising Schowalter
In fact, I can't believe a lesson wasn't learned from the same blunder by the Mariners on Saturday in almost the exact scenario (Mariners were down by one) where Gamel singled to lead off the bottom of tenth and immediately got to second on a wild pitch. M's have Cano, Cruz and Seager coming up with no outs and Servais let them swing away with Cano grounding out to third, so Gamel doesn't move. Cruz grounds out to pitcher and Seager flies out to end their game AND any chance the Mariners had for post season play. Maybe had they played small ball, THEY would be playing tonight instead
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