Longshot
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I want Biagini for the 9th...
Because that would mean the Jays have scored four or five runs this inning.
Because that would mean the Jays have scored four or five runs this inning.
Really? Did you not just hear buck and pat say they might walk hum here? Doesnt matter he got to 1st anyway...at least he didnt tie the game.
Don't intentionally put the tying run on base, especially when Mookie Betts is up to bat.
It's a golden rule that you gotta live by.
Numbers dont lie right? Have you seen Ortiz numbers at rogers centre? But hey, he got on base anyway, and grilli got out of it. All is well in the world.
Walking Ortiz for Mookie is like walking encarnacion to get to Donaldson
Really Farrell? Joe Kelly?
Wouldn't you want to go with a good reliever and try and keep this a one-run game? Not that the Jays are guaranteed to score, but this guy has been brutal.
If he hits a home run you're tied. I'd take my chances on him rather than just let him get the free base and put the go ahead run at the plate.
I would assume the chances of ortiz hitting it out vs grilli than betts hitting it out vs grilli is greater right? Just saying. Ive seen teams walk rizzo to get to bryant in that same scenario.
I'd like to see these scenarios.
Im telling you I have seen this on a few occasions. And rewind the broadcast, buck and pat both wondered id they d walk ortiz. I wasnt the only one thinking it.
Wow, Kelly hit 100 on the gun.
Buck and Pat aren't very smart.
Agreed. However both former players and Buck was a manager. More than any of us on here can say.
I'd like to see these scenarios. Maybe they pitch him to a walk, but they shouldn't be intentionally giving up the base. Also with Bryant you're getting a guy with (albeit more power) a lot of swing and miss compared to Betts.
"It's kind of baffling how this guy (Kelly) doesn't have more success."
2016 bb/9: 6.52
2016 WHIP: 2.00
Yep. Baffling.
EDIT: and just so we're not dealing purely with small sample size, his 2015 #s were 3.28 and 1.44 respectively. Better, but still not great.
I mean I wouldn't think it would need much explaining why walking the winning run to the plate who is also a top 5 player in baseball this year is a awful idea. Ortiz hits a dinger there....it sucks yes but it's a tie game, you walk Ortiz for Mookie and he hits one out you look like a complete idiot.
Once again....ortiz still got on 1st even without my proposed intentional walk and they still got betts oit