Posted on 10/13/2013 10:06:10 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler
Rules do matter. That action is called runner's interference, so he'd be called out.
I saw too many runners make diving tackles at Home this season.
BTW, the Dodgers lost the first two games of that series and came back to sweep the next four.
The moral of the story: Stay classy, don't whine like a bitch, and never give up on the Dodgers.
Ellis was out. Technically, it was "runner's interference". The baseline belongs to the runner...unless a fielder in front of him has the ball. In which case, if the runner chooses to advance, he may not interfere with the fielder's attempt to tag him.
This play occurred at home plate, but is otherwise identical to a play in the season's last game several years ago when Alex Rodriguez attempted to knock the ball from the pitcher's hand as he was about to be tagged on the 1st base line. You may remember it as the "sissy slap play".
Ellis was out. Period. And you won't find anybody on the Dodgers' team who would contend otherwise.
Yeah, Puig did the Golden Sombrero yesterday.
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1961 World Series Dates: October 4–9
With additional playoffs from the league championship series in 1969. The division series in 81 and now the new 1 game wild card playoff this year it pretty much fills up October.
Absolutely correct. If I recall there were other pitches that got away to the outside of the batter. No, this was not intentional.
I am gleeful in my shadenfreude.
Not so fast! There is much baseball left here. Game 3 is so big. If the Cards ace wins this one for the team it's close to over but winning that last game seems to never come easy. GO CARDS!!
The count was 1 ball 2 strikes. Why would Kelly want to hit him? He was looking for an out not a base runner.
Yogi Berra would just shake them off. He swears to this day that Jackie Robinson was OUT. And he was if you watch the clip.
He once stated “ you have to stand there and take your lumps”
If you want to catch in hardball you have to be able to take boucoupe abuse.
True enough. Good enough for Yogi, good enough for me. Sometimes it seems like football out there, though. Of course, at Home the runner is crashing into the most padded guy on the field, so it’s his azz on the line, right?
No, didn’t stay up for any of the post game stuff. Glad to hear it, though.
The 2013 cardinals had a team RISP average of .330 for the season, the highest since they had reliable numbers for it from back in ‘74.
“The highest average since 1974, the first year of reliable RISP stats, by a team with runners in scoring position was .311 by Detroit in 2007.
The Cardinals shattered that number by going 447 for 1,355, or .330.
They did this in a season when averages across baseball with runners in scoring position were at a low for the past decade.”
That’s pretty darn scrappy. I know I felt like they manhandled the Nats last postseason. It’s refreshing to see a team actually shorten up their swing when it counts, that’s the exact opposite of what the Nats did this year.
Freegards
GO CARDINALS!!
I wonder why that is? Is there some statistical model the managers are following which they believe supersedes fundamental baseball tactics?
Poor little yankee catcher Francisco cervelli got so many concussions they make him wear a huge batting helmet.
Well, you are way wrong about that, but you are right that they are extending the season a few weeks too long. It is not a game meant to be played on cold nights in late October. November is ridiculous. December is right out.
Very clever.
Go, Dodgers! Come on, you Flatbush refugees!
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