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4 minutes ago, tcp said:

holy cow, what a botched inning. give away a free out on a bad bunt call (they're all bad bunt calls with 2 on 0 out early innings) and another gift wrapped double play. i get that this is essentially High A ball, but still....Hogs got a present there. 

He gets the bunt down, and we are ahead 2 - 0 with Mojo's fly ball to left.  Now, we are tied 1 - 1, and are melting down.  Booting the ball, and walking guys.

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Just now, brfrad said:

He gets the bunt down, and we are ahead 2 - 0 with Mojo's fly ball to left.  Now, we are tied 1 - 1, and are melting down.  Booting the ball, and walking guys.

 

which you can't assume given that pitchers change approaches. analytics are really clear about bunting rules even in the minors, *unless* you have a non-hitting pitcher up or the game is late and trading outs for a single run becomes more desirable. that's literally *never* the 2d inning (shift excepting). i'm guessing college still does it because the error is more prevalent than in higher leagues. in any event, the real killer was the base running snafu. that was just mind-boggling. 

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Have we played baseball before!!!  That inning was atrocious!!  We had a walk, an error in CF, nobody covering 2nd, a WP that allowed 2 runs to score because overthrow the pitcher covering 2nd, and now are down 3 - 1.  You can't do this to good teams.  You can't even do that to average teams.  We played with an edge for the first 2 innings, and now melted down.

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2 minutes ago, tcp said:

 

which you can't assume given that pitchers change approaches. analytics are really clear about bunting rules even in the minors, *unless* you have a non-hitting pitcher up or the game is late and trading outs for a single run becomes more desirable. that's literally *never* the 2d inning (shift excepting). i'm guessing college still does it because the error is more prevalent than in higher leagues. in any event, the real killer was the base running snafu. that was just mind-boggling. 

We can debate that, but it's over and we melted down in the inning to give them a 3 - 1 lead.  Now, we are in big trouble.

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