Perhaps the goal of the play was not to force a choice from the defender.
Perhaps it was designed for the defense to ponder the choice that two young men, wrapped in athletic embrace, made in the heat of battle in full view of 100,000 people.
Perhaps we should all ponder that choice and admire their boldness.
That was some next level shit.
Yuli might have left a little early. Perhaps that was a smart play after all. Hard to say.
Marwin strikes out to end the inning. But a new gameā¦3-3
Itāll be interesting to hear on postgame whether or not that was planned. You might even say Iām intrigued
Mark may have just taken capslock off his keyboard.
Looking back at replay, that has to have been a planned move from Tucker. He was already on the bag when the pitcher stepped off. He immediately broke for home. Iām gonna give him, or whomever called it, an A+ for strategy.
3B camped out there for a week before the throw too.
Maton inā¦after two quick outs, issues a walk
I even think his stumble was intentional, so that they would definitely come get him. Of course, the best way to guarantee that would have been just to continue on to home plate.
Thatās all for Maton. Raley in
I wish he would have done just that.
Maximum chaos.
Yeah, you take off for home. They either make a play on you, or they make the appeal and you score. Either way, you guarantee a run scored.
Raley strikes out Calhounā¦at the Stretchā¦3-3
Attaboy Raley.
You know, I think be seen a lot over the years, but that thwarted appeal may be a first for me. I donāt recall seeing that before.
So for appeal to work, nothing else can happen on the throw over?
First for me, too. I donāt remember seeing ā or even hearing about ā such a thing before.
You only get one shot at an appeal, and it has to be before the next pitch or a play on another runner. It also has to be on a live ball. So they could have continued the appeal, but Tucker is free to advance if they do. Once they made a play on Tucker, they lost the opportunity to appeal Yuli leaving early.
There are some interesting things happening in this game.