00:00Where did your issues lie in this baseball game?
00:03I think a lot of John Schneider decisions,
00:08and you can Monday morning quarterback it,
00:10but there was a lot that, like, in real time, I wrote them down,
00:13so I'm like, okay, to make sure that I'm not Monday morning
00:15quarterbacking it too hard.
00:17I will say, though, I saw a lot of people talking about the send of IKF,
00:22like, or IKF sending himself, whatever it was,
00:24from first to third on that ball that kicked away from Edmund.
00:27I think if you freeze frame it from where IKF started
00:31at the time that the ball kicked away and where Tommy Edmund was,
00:35the majority of the time that's going to go in the base runner's favor.
00:39Like, it was a close play at third.
00:41It took a perfect play from Tommy Edmund to slide into that throw
00:46to make a perfect throw when the tag goes down.
00:48Like, that play I don't think happens more than five out of ten times.
00:52Maybe with Tommy Edmund it does,
00:53and maybe that's the part that you'd be a little bit more hesitant,
00:55but with one out, I really didn't hate that move.
00:58If it was two out, something else may be a little bit different.
01:00Sticking on that one real quick, with one out, you do that
01:03because all of a sudden you have –
01:06you don't have, like, a mulligan in terms of an out,
01:08but an out can effectively win you this baseball game.
01:12So you don't go with nobody out because you have too many opportunities,
01:15and you don't go with two men out because you have too few opportunities.
01:18It is a Goldilocks situation where he's only going if there's one out.
01:23And a fly ball, you know, is all you need at that point,
01:26or, you know, a well-placed ground or whatever it may be.
01:28Or a wild pitch, yeah.
01:29Or a wild pitch.
01:30So that part I didn't mind.
01:31The send I couldn't stand was where you had Vladdy on deck.
01:38You have Davis Schneider pinch running here on a double with Schneider on first base.
01:46There's no way he was ever going to score on it,
01:48and there's freeze frames on social where the ball is in the catcher's glove,
01:53and Davis Schneider is not even remotely in the picture here.
01:56And you can't –
01:57Davis Schneider could have one of the fastest sprint speeds in Major League Baseball,
02:00and I don't think he's beating that one out.
02:02So that was a weird send.
02:04That one, I get it.
02:05There were two outs, but that's not a gamble worth taking.
02:07You have Vladdy on deck, who they surely wouldn't have pitched to.
02:10Okay, great.
02:10Now you load the bases for a young Emmett Sheehan who has struggled.
02:14He ended up throwing well but has struggled.
02:16And the contact-oriented IKF, well, at least he's going to put the pressure on him, right?
02:20Spoil a bunch of pitches.
02:21Maybe he walks him.
02:22Maybe one gets away.
02:24Whatever it may be, I like the chances of manufacturing a run there in one way or another.
02:29More than hoping that Tommy Edmund clanks a routine relay throw over to home,
02:35which he isn't going to do after you learn the hard way a little bit earlier.
02:39So that was a send I didn't really like.
02:41That's not Schneider.
02:42That's the third base coach.
02:43But I felt like there was a little bit of overmanaging at points,
02:48and I get you feel like you have to do that on the road
02:51in a game that clearly was this organized chaos that you had.
02:55But I think this game doesn't go 18 innings, and we'll never know for sure,
03:02if so many guys weren't pinch hit for in this Blue Jays lineup.
03:07Because, look, you could say the same thing, though, and say,
03:10well, who would have thought this Dodgers team would put up so many zeros consecutively as well?
03:15But I do feel like if you still had Barger in there, if you still had Kirk in there,
03:21if you still had a few of your other guys in there,
03:22especially with Springer going down and knowing how much that thins your lineup,
03:27I don't think I'm prioritizing a marginal gain in sprint speed with Tyler Heinemann.
03:32And little things like that, when you are risking, if this game continues on,
03:38having ABs where you're taking the bat out of Alejandro Kirk's hands,
03:42who's one of the best hitters in this series, who has homered in this game,
03:46it's the World Series.
03:48I'm keeping the bat in Kirk's hand.
03:50And I know Heinemann ends up sliding into third close play there,
03:53and that became interesting.
03:54That was almost one of the biggest base running blunders of all time.
03:57It was a 3-2 count on the Davis Schneider dribbler to third base,
04:01where a genius play by Muncie didn't know,
04:03I'm not going to make a throw to first.
04:04Let me just stretch and field this ball.
04:06But that should have never even been remotely close.
04:08It could have been my out-of-shape butt going backpedal style to third base.
04:15And if I'm base running properly in terms of 3-2 count,
04:18you're on the run because it's two outs.
04:20You could have jogged first.
04:22Then he didn't slide to third.
04:23Then he didn't slide.
04:25That could have been all-time bad by Heinemann,
04:27who pinch ran for Kirk for the purpose of running.
04:31There's no other argument other than for the purpose of running.
04:34So you took away Kirk's defense, his ability to steal strikes,
04:37which was working late there.
04:39Will Smith stole a bunch.
04:41And on top of that, you take away his bat,
04:43and you ended up getting multiple A-Bs there.
04:45Between that, between not having Barger in there and others,
04:48I thought that they kind of nerfed their own lineup.
04:52You never knew it was going to go 18,
04:54but you didn't know that you were going to end the game right there either
04:57when you did pinch run for these guys.
04:59And I think when you lose Springer,
05:01even more of a reason to not prioritize the short-term speed gains
05:05or whatever it may be when you know that if the game carries on,
05:09you have almost your B team in the offensive side of things.
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