You’re probably right…but if either of them had a clue and covered 1B, they get the out there with no run scored. But yeah, they were probably rolling on the ground laughing at the dumbass with the long mitt.
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So what I did not realize about this clusterfuck in Pittsburgh today is that Wilson Contreras, the runner who scored on that boondoggle, reached second after he was picked off of 1B and the Pirates’ first baseman screwed that up too. What a shit inning.
How do you look your teammates in the eye after that?
In this specific instance said teammates would also be Pittsburgh Pirates so the sting is lessened.
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That’s what the glasses are for, I guess.
One final piece of ignominy…the first baseman should have been called for obstruction after the play at the plate, which would have been an immediate dead ball and Baez awarded 1B instead of 2B. He would therefore not have scored on the next single. The Pirates could not have gathered a team of engineers and science fiction writers and dreamed up a scenario as screwed up as the one they managed to pull off in real time.
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Maybe they hit him in the junk.
They should. Repeatedly. With a sock full of rocks.
Pretty sure he was distracted by this guy:
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The Pirates radio call is gold:
The Pirates radio call is marvelous. pic.twitter.com/Kkptci0PWg
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) May 27, 2021
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So SB success rate is the highest it’s ever been in history at 76.2% thru May 23. Pitchers being slower to the plate, emphasizing pitch framing for catchers over arm strength and fielders being slower to the bag because of shifting have been cited as the reasons.
Which raises even more questions about why Myles Straw has sucked at it so badly this year.
He’s slower than he used to be and gets terrible jumps. Not that complicated.
Uh oh.
It takes a real miscreant to do that, and a stupid one, to do it in front of the police.
You gotta love him.
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Replying to @Chandler_Rome
Brent Strom just gave him his hat as well.
1:37 PM · May 30, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
That’s about all he needed, except of course, a few runs…
Game Seven in 2019 is when I became a big Greinke fan. I was ambivalent before then. He pitched his ass off in that game and deserved far better. Karma got him, not the Nats.
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I’m very glad we acquired him. Whether we keep him all depends on the price, because while he’ll battle his ass off for you like an ace, you don’t get ace numbers from him.
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