Well shit.
fuck
Well, no squeeze as Straw lines out
Damn.
With Maldonado the Stubbs due up, I squeeze with Straw
I would squeeze if Babe Ruth was next. I love the play.
If you are going to have Maldonado bunt in a first and third, one out situation, the squeeze play should have been on with Straw.
Send Reddick with the full count?
Yep
You normally dont squeeze with nobody out. But I would have. I would have with Maldonado as the Astros stomp their dicks.
This. Team. Is. Fucking. Putrid.
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I’m going to bed
Agreed. It’s more of an indictment of Straw as a major league hitter, and the guys coming up behind him.
Manfred: “What if we shorten games by screwing with the rules?”
Astros and A’s: “What if we foil your plan with incompetence?”
I guess I know the answer to this since we’re into the 12th but have the A’s been bunting in extra innings?
If not, do they know you need only that guy on second to score and they win and this will all be over?
I’m not sure that level of strategery will be exploited until the next generation of MBAs makes its way into the league.
The result is all that counts, Stubbs.
Oh, how spoiled we were when the Astros could start three elite defensive outfielders in Reddick, Springer and Marisnick.
Aaaarrrrggggghhhhhh…
The Astros have another chance.