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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.

Bad split second decisions can cost you...

Roger Dorn would’ve made it happen.

CCard wrote: ↑13 Oct 2025 22:07 pm 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.

I’m pretty sure it was instinct to get out of the way he didn’t have time to think about probably

CCard wrote: ↑13 Oct 2025 22:07 pm 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.

Natural reaction to not get hit by a pitch..

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.

scoutyjones2 wrote: ↑14 Oct 2025 00:18 am

CCard wrote: ↑13 Oct 2025 22:07 pm 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.

Natural reaction to not get hit by a pitch..

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.

Ozziesfan41 wrote: ↑13 Oct 2025 22:19 pm

CCard wrote: ↑13 Oct 2025 22:07 pm 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.

I’m pretty sure it was instinct to get out of the way he didn’t have time to think about probably

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.

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.

scoutyjones2 wrote: ↑14 Oct 2025 00:18 am

CCard wrote: ↑13 Oct 2025 22:07 pm 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.

Natural reaction to not get hit by a pitch..

well done to quote Turang without providing quotations. you are beyond the intellectual level of this board

Ozziesfan41 wrote: ↑13 Oct 2025 22:19 pm

CCard wrote: ↑13 Oct 2025 22:07 pm 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.

I’m pretty sure it was instinct to get out of the way he didn’t have time to think about probably

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 pm

CCard wrote: ↑13 Oct 2025 22:07 pm 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.

I’m pretty sure it was instinct to get out of the way he didn’t have time to think about probably

And isn’t it a rule you have to try to avoid the pitch?

Konstantinov wrote: ↑13 Oct 2025 22:17 pm Roger Dorn would’ve made it happen.

And then you pinch run for Dorn.

wouldn't have even mattered if the Brew Crew didn't get so lucky earlier in the game with the bases juiced!

dugoutrex wrote: ↑14 Oct 2025 16:34 pm wouldn't have even mattered if the Brew Crew didn't get so lucky earlier in the game with the bases juiced!

The Brewers gave up a run in the top of the ninth with a walk, single, walk, walk sequence. That also cost them the game.