powrwrap wrote:
>> On Sep 15, 5:34 pm, "brink" <brinknos
...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps even more costly in that KC game was his mispositioning on a
>> flyball that allowed Olivo to tag from 2nd to 3rd -- that just
>> shouldn't happen on a ball with feet planted in CF and a catcher
>> tagging up. Olivo ended up scoring because of that.
> I didn't see that, wasn't aware of this miscue.
All 3 of KC's runs were directly related to OF miscues -- Span had the other
2. Ironic because it's the IF and LF defense that's been killing the Twins
while CF and RF have actually been huge plusses for the team ever since Span
was called up. In that one game Span and Gomez really let the team down and
obviously it really cost em).
>> It's sad to think how many "little plays" we'll be able to point to
>> over the last few months if the Twins don't end up winning this
>> thing. Everett's overthrow of Mike Lamb at 1st base in KC to tie the
>> game... the Pridie boot job on Snider's single in Toronto...
>> Nathan's throwing error to 3rd to bring home 2 runs and lose the
>> game in Oakland... Buscher/Gomez both screwing up defensively in the
>> same inning in Anaheim to cost a big inning... Punto's error at SS
>> in Seattle with Beltre at 2B... and there
>> are many more...
>> It is truly amazing how a team that still carries an undeserved rep
>> for "doing the little things right" has seriously jeopardized its
>> playoff chances through screwing up the little things so many times.
> You're right. Some of them aren't fielding plays. How about Reye's
> hanging slider to Granderson last week resulting in a HR? Or the one
> to DeJesus last Thursday that gave KC the winning run? Didn't cost
> them the game but Punto had a couple of brain farts yesterday like
> turning toward 2nd and getting tagged out and trying to advance from
> 2nd to 3rd on a ball hit to the SS. Also, Delmon Young inexplicably
> didn't run home on a ball hit by Punto that should have been a double.
Yeah... Punto easily leads the team in stupid baserunning plays. He's been
picked off twice, the play yesterday was horrible, and remember when he got
tagged out at second because he thought a 3-2 count was ball four? The guy
just isn't very bright.
Add in Gomez and Young, whose collective baseball IQ barely registers, and
Casilla/Harris/Buscher, who are all questionable, and you've got a lot of
players who don't quite seem to understand what to do in key situations.
Mauer, Morneau, and Span are the only guys I trust not to pull some
boneheaded play in a clutch situation...
For the most part, I wouldn't call Reyes' bad pitches not doing the "little
things" right -- to me, there's a world of difference between hanging a
slider and not being in the right position for a throw or getting picked
off. Pitchers can't control exactly where a ball is going to end up or how
it will break.
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