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Re: 9/19 CG
Dodgers completed the sweep. Rockies still 1.5 games back.
They’re also off today before heading to Arizona. Let’s go D-backs.
- artie_fufkin
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Re: 9/19 CG
Mags wrote:
There was a pitch earlier that Molina would probably have blocked when he was younger or fresher. It clearly was properly scored a wild pitch. But there is no way at all for the pitch that produced the double steal to be scored wild. Molina caught it cleanly. He just made an ill-advised throw.
I'll see if I can catch the highlights tonight. Molina looked unusually slow, even by his standards, on Monday when he went from first to third on Bader's double. I'm almost positive any other player in the league would have scored, and I'm sure if Molina hadn't been on base in front of him, Bader would have made it to third.
They have a good clip at the Braves web site:
It's about the 5th video in the window that begins with Freeman's two run homer. But I was wrong about 1 thing. The pitch was belt high and not at the hitter's ankle. I guess it wasn't strike 3 because it was inside.
I was incorrect. According to Gamcast, the Braves' third run of the game was scored by Flowers on a wild pitch. The fourth run is listed as scoring on a double steal. A couple of things about the double steal. Molina's throw wasn't a bad one. Maybe on the wrong side of the bag, but if DeJong is there, Freeman is probably out. And from the clip it's impossible to tell why DeJong was so late getting to the bag. I assume he was playing normal depth because it would be a gamble to send a runner who isn't especially fast with the cleanup hitter at the plate.
And I think the umpire screwed up the call twice. Clearly, Freeman beats the tag, and I'm not sure I would have given DeJong the benefit of the doubt on the transfer.
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Re: 9/19 CG
Molina's throw couldn't have been much better, IMO. It's the best throw I've seen him make in weeks, in large part due to limited opportunities. The failure to nail Freddie was entirely on DeJong but that's part of the risk in making the throw. Especially with DeJong covering.
My criticism was in the decision to make the throw at all. Two out, two strikes on the hitter. I believe the runner from third was going home, balls out. So there was also the possibility that the runner at second chose to get in a run down, in which case the run would have scored anyway.
I'm not sure there was an attempted transfer. I thought DeJong had the ball knocked out of his glove when he made the belated tag and was only throwing up his right had to try to keep control. The umpire blew the call twice, once again IMO.