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Post by Chris Hatfield on Nov 3, 2014 7:07:11 GMT -5
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Post by sarasoxer on Nov 3, 2014 7:30:27 GMT -5
Wow, that's some incredible analysis. It looked to me that Gordon was starting to chug approaching third. In my mind's eye, I did not see him making it.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Nov 3, 2014 13:49:06 GMT -5
I remember thinking, OMG Blanco should have stayed back, it's rolling past him. Then when Perez booted the ball I was thinking he could score. I was kind of surprised that Gordon was only hitting 3rd as Crawford was receiving the ball. I was thinking Man he is slow..
I think if Gordon, based on the way he had been running, had been sent, he would have been out by a good ten feet or so and that's a terrible way for the Series to end if you're KC, not that it ended any better when Perez popped up to Sandoval (I was surprised he even made contact with the ball).
I do think his slow start did him in, taking it for granted he was looking at a single. It just seemed like the Giants OF was choking on that play, as if they were very nervous.
It sure would have been fun, as a baseball fan, to see if Gordon could have made it, but if I'm a coach I don't know that I send him home with a 30% chance. I get the math of it. It seemed like they only had a 1% chance of getting a hit of Bumgarner the way he was pitching, but still unless it was a 50-50 proposition or darn close to it, if I were the 3b coach, I couldn't justify sending Gordon home. It's almost like you'd be sending the runner home in some sort of suicide mission and not showing an ounce of faith in your hitter at the plate. Tough place for a 3b coach to be in. I think 90% - 95% of the coaches would have held the runner up, if not more given what happened.
Then when I saw the popup, to a lesser extent, I thought, so THAT'S what it had to feel like in 1978 (I missed that by a couple of years thankfully) when Yaz popped up to Nettles. Such as empty feeling.
Too bad it wasn't Dyson or somebody like that. Now that really would have been very interesting.
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