Posted on 10/12/2015 1:11:25 PM PDT by Red Badger
It’s beginning to seem like Marty McFly may have been onto something.
The Cubs sure are an interesting team to watch. Nothing demonstrates that point more effectively than mad-hatter manager Joe Maddon calling for two suicide squeezes in the second inning on Saturday, en route to a 6-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals.
Now, if you’re like me, you wonder why this isn’t always the play with a runner on third and fewer than two outs. I’ve almost never seen it played correctly by opposing defenses, and isn’t it more reliable than a fly ball to the outfield? But hey, there’s a reason I’m not an MLB manager – at least one.
That said, when Marty jumped ahead in “Back to the Future Part II,” he spied a billboard congratulating the Cubs on a World Series victory. And after watching this plucky Cubs squad grab momentum and knot the series at 1 as it shifts to Chicago, that scene is beginning to look more like foresight that fantasy.
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The way to stop a bunting attack has always been to pitch up and in.
But players today don’t bunt. In the old days of the Negro Leagues, you couldn’t play for the legendary Rube Foster unless you could bunt a ball into a cap he had placed on the ground.
With Darrell Evans, “the greatest mediocre player in baseball history,” according to Frank Robinson.
That was more a horrible Astros bullpen and a bad hop.
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