I’m just glad the team woke up and did something other than fart, roll over, and go back to sleep.
Hearing the pathetic shadow of the Altuve taunting in his next at bat after the homer was fucking delicious, and I hope every single one of those pasty, classless fucks choked on a pound of deli sandwich pastrami on their way home.
Fucking cocksuckers.
So he should have gone to first instead? Third? Home? Second? Certainly anywhere but the mound. But say he saw that home was uncovered and ran there the same time as Yuli. Wouldn’t you prefer he backup Yuli on a play at home, rather than trying to take the throw himself?
The one place the pitcher shouldn’t be ever is standing on the mound looking like a cow watching an oncoming train.
Pitchers are trained to read the play and back up the next available base. So really, Pressly should’ve been over at 3rd since there was a.) nobody there and b.) it was the next unoccupied base where a throw could go.
Obviously he didn’t, then obviously chaos ensued.
As a first baseman, I was always heading to the middle of the infield when plays were happening at 3rd or home. You never know when you’ll need to be backing up a throw or covering.
This never played out in an actual baseball game, but the number of times I’ve been standing on home from first in a softball game and prevented a run from scoring or tagged out a runner that didn’t know I was lurking nearby on an errant throw is in the 10s at least in my softball career.
Give it up, Sphinx. Stop asking me questions you know the answers to.
Go fuck yourself Jim.
Uh. What?
Well, ok. I get it you never played, but maybe I gave you more credit than I should for being an intelligent fan.
On my teams, the players were coached to never leave bases uncovered. OFers often were on the move to cover bases if need be. Mark gave you a great response to what he did as a first baseman, and the pitcher is not exempt from the rule: never leave a base uncovered. Defense is like a ballet with players rotating and covering areas outside their own. Practice makes this second nature, as Mark can tell you.
Yuli had to go to his bag initially on the infield ground ball. Machete went to third; I do not know where Bregman was. I hope Machete yelled to Pressly he was going to third. Pressly became a spectator, and his gaffe, not Yuli’s, left home uncovered. This is Baseball 101. Good HS teams, as we were, know this.
No, I will not go fuck myself. I expect better from you.
What should I mix my tequila with at 8PM?
Topo Chico and lime juice.
Mix?
Bregman was covering 2B. Correa and Altuve were both shifted to the 1B side of 2B, and had Correa been able to spear the ball cleanly, they had a play at 2B with Bregman there. I was thinking the same thing about Maldonado yelling. Anytime he has to leave home plate, such as covering 3B on a bunt fielded by the third baseman (which is something you practice), the catcher should be yelling for someone to cover the plate. Yuli got caught flat-footed. Pressly got caught picking daisies.
Just my two cents, as a former pitcher, Pressly should have broke for 3rd. You know that Bregman was in the SS spot because of the shift and nobody would be at 3rd. You don’t even have to get to the bag, just be on your way to the bag and Torres doesn’t take the chance.
Good explanations above.
Lost in all this: that was Pressly’s first 2 inning save.
Also FTY.
I do like a good paloma
Yankees fans would lower the standard of living in a cesspool.
Well, this is a Ranch Water, which I just happened to drink plenty of last night.
But, yes, Palomas are really effing good.
Yes I agree, but because he did not. Machete covered third. That sends Pressly to home, but he had become a spectator.
Talk is very important in these situations. If the catcher is moving up the third base line to cover an open base or to back up a throw from the outfield he will yell to the pitcher or the first baseman “Cover home”. Sometimes the pitcher or first baseman will beat the catcher to the talk and yell “I got home.” This might not be the practice in MLB because of the crowd noise.
I was watching this clusterfuck on MLB, and even Machete was slow to react to things. If he had gotten to third earlier, Torres wouldn’t even have tried. But, jeez, Pressly was a freaking statue, and once Maldonado started moving for third, belated or not, Pressly had to go cover the plate. Nobody’s even going to have to make a play; they just have to be on the base/plate to change the risk/reward ratio for Torres.
And I hate to say this, but give credit to Torres for recognizing that the play had devolved into a foot race between him and Maldonado.