Not the best video but FF to about :45-55, the shortstop or whoever it was was way in the outfield and had his back turned still by the time Gordon got to third and didn't have possession of the ball cause the outfielder's throw was shorthopped. He would have needed a perfect throw from way out. Remember the Sid Bream play from way back in the '91 NLCS or whenever it was? Bonds didn't make the perfect throw and that's the only reason Bream scored.
And Perez may have been hitting .350 for the series but he was clearly on one leg in that game. And nobody was hitting Bumgartner at all in the entire series.
Gordon barely at the base when their SS was turned and ready to throw
Plus that SS made a hell of a throw earlier in the game to the plate from the OF that made Butler scoring a lot closer than it should have been;
http://m.mlb.com/video/v36877605
How can you say Gordon has shot at scoring there, a huge gamble, yet you rule out anybody hitting Bumgarner when Alex Gordon, who was hitting .180 in the series, drilled that ball off of him, a far, far, far smaller gamble and far more of a likelihood of happening than a gassed Gordon not even at third base when the cutoff man has the ball, scoring?
You don't throw your season and chance to extend the game away just to take a gamble with a guy who is slow as it is and near to being out of gas. It's that simple - it would be like having a goalie in game 7 of the cup finals, up by a goal, trying to shoot the puck down to score on an empty net
