Wow! Bases juiced and your team down you have to take one for the team
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Wow! Bases juiced and your team down you have to take one for the team
Don't you? He gets hit and the game is tied. Instead he performs gymnastics getting out of the way and then strikes out on one up out of the zone. What a horrible at bat. Dodgers get a leg up.
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cardstatman
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Re: Wow! Bases juiced and your team down you have to take one for the team
Bad split second decisions can cost you...
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Konstantinov
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Re: Wow! Bases juiced and your team down you have to take one for the team
Roger Dorn would’ve made it happen.
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Ozziesfan41
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Re: Wow! Bases juiced and your team down you have to take one for the team
I’m pretty sure it was instinct to get out of the way he didn’t have time to think about probably
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JuanAgosto
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Re: Wow! Bases juiced and your team down you have to take one for the team
Natural reaction to move. 95% of players do the same there. What was worse was swinging at a pitch above the letters to end the game. What a putz.
Re: Wow! Bases juiced and your team down you have to take one for the team
In that moment, with the game on the line, you take that pitch as long as it isn't at your head. It's just not a smart player. Then he strikes out on a pitch up and out of the strike zone. Just not a smart player. End of story.
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Yeah, I'm sure it's a natural instinct and all, but smart players run through that before hand so they don't rely on natural instinct and become a goat. That has to be part of your thought process before you even go to the plate.Ozziesfan41 wrote: ↑13 Oct 2025 22:19 pmI’m pretty sure it was instinct to get out of the way he didn’t have time to think about probably
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rockondlouie
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Re: Wow! Bases juiced and your team down you have to take one for the team
Pure survival instincts took over.
If you've ever been hit by a 90+ mph fastball (it hurts like hell), then you get out of the way if you can.
Sure he should've "taken one for the team" but it's only human nature to flinch.
If you've ever been hit by a 90+ mph fastball (it hurts like hell), then you get out of the way if you can.
Sure he should've "taken one for the team" but it's only human nature to flinch.
Re: Wow! Bases juiced and your team down you have to take one for the team
well done to quote Turang without providing quotations. you are beyond the intellectual level of this board
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VegasVinny
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Plus, the pitch was a slider not a fastball. Out of the pitcher's hand, he's thinking fastball middle-in, whoops, offspeed, oh sheeet! Fractions of seconds. Men not machines.Ozziesfan41 wrote: ↑13 Oct 2025 22:19 pmI’m pretty sure it was instinct to get out of the way he didn’t have time to think about probably
Re: Wow! Bases juiced and your team down you have to take one for the team
And isn’t it a rule you have to try to avoid the pitch?Ozziesfan41 wrote: ↑13 Oct 2025 22:19 pmI’m pretty sure it was instinct to get out of the way he didn’t have time to think about probably
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Chip Matthews
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Re: Wow! Bases juiced and your team down you have to take one for the team
And then you pinch run for Dorn.
Re: Wow! Bases juiced and your team down you have to take one for the team
wouldn't have even mattered if the Brew Crew didn't get so lucky earlier in the game with the bases juiced!
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