Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Gattis, Freeman lead Braves past Twins 5-4 in 10th
(sports.yahoo.com)
posted 57 minutes ago by Brian White to braves, evan gattis, pinch-hit dingers, twins
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The Braves have a problem: They can’t hold late inning leads because all their non-Kimbrel relievers keep getting hurt.
The Braves have a solution to their problem: More Evan Gattis pinch hit home runs.
Read More...Evan Gattis just keeps coming through for the Atlanta Braves.
The rookie hit a two-out, pinch-hit homer in the ninth to send the game to extra innings and Freddie Freeman won it in the 10th, sending the Braves to their fifth straight win, 5-4 over the slumping Minnesota Twins on Tuesday ...
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1 2 3 4 5 6 >edit: And it was kind of gross to see the Braves jumping around and celebrating that. They should have just headed straight to the locker room as quickly as possible before Jesus or Buddha or Mohammed or Odin whomever came down from the heavens to make that call right again.
Why do these shitty umps keep giving ammunition to those who want the montrosity of replay?
Whomever that ump is should be sent away. Somewhere far away. Preferably for an eye test.
He saw the glove hand continue in a smooth motion, as if it didn't make contact, and the glove never appears to flop or bend.
Not saying he was right, but I think that's the information he used to process it, filtered through the fatigue of 19 innings at the dish. If you're going to counter the "expected" call (in this case, because the ball beat the runner by so much), you've got to be more certain than he could have been (i.e., actually see daylight between player and glove.) Meals's postgame comments don't imply that he did. Lugo's body language certainly suggests he thought he was grazed.
I think he blew the call, but it's not a solid tag at all.
The umpire was right on the play, so if he didn't see the catcher's mitt bend when he swept across the lead leg, then I guess that's why he called him safe.
I've seen a couple of doozy extra inning games like this 17 inning game that I attended in person which also featured a long rain delay and the Mike Stanton Game I remember so well from my youth that featured a 7 run ninth inning comeback to tie it, and Mike Stanton going 2-2 at the plate including the game winning RBI bunt single in the 15th inning.
But this one takes the cake. Six shutout innings by Cristhian Martinez! Three shutout innings by Scott Proctor?!? I don't think he's ever gone so long without giving up twelve homers. Nate McLouth and Fredi Gonzalez were thrown out, Brian McCann left with an injury, and Jordan Schafer should have left with an injury, but there wasn't anyone left to replace him. Not to mention the most obnoxious fan of all time. Seriously, she was screaming, "LET'S GO PIRAAAAAAAAAATES" for the whole game. It was ear-bleedingly awful. And then it all ended on the worst call I've ever seen. By the way, on that last play, the Pirates would have easily turned a double play to send the game to the 20th inning, since Proctor didn't get out of the box too quickly...
Meek's on the 60-day DL.
Hurdle said that he was trying not to use Hanrahan because he'd pitched in each of the last two games prior to this one.
but on Monday night he got called for catcher's interference on an inside pitch David Ross (I think) swung at and clobbered him on his glove hand. McKenry was in a good bit of pain. He played last night obviously, and even hit a home run. But it looked like the kind of thing that would be pretty sore and direct impact on the back of his hand may not be the greatest idea.
I watched the video. He looked safe to me. He SHOULD have been out but the catcher didn't tag him.
(NOTE: I'm not saying he didn't tag him. I'm jsut syaing I have yet to see a photo or video where I could SEE him tagging him.)
He isn't the only one. Two or three other players were trying to get McKenry to throw to first to complete the DP. Everyone was just flabbergasted when Meals called Lugo safe.
You aren't fooling anyone, Mr. Meals.
In other Bucs news, Overbay went 1-for-8 during the game and is now at 231/298/348 on the year and has been between -5 and -8 on defense (depending on whether you believe UZR or the Fielding Bible). If Overbay is still the starting 1B after the trading deadline, that's a huge failure by the Bucs.
This actually isn't true. The runner only "has" to be safe if the runner was not tagged by the catcher, and touched home plate. What the umpire thought he saw or didn't see doesn't really come into what "has" to happen.
3b line extended is where the umps like to get when the throw is coming in from that angle. But it's tougher to react in time on the infield grounder, even when you haven't already done two full games that evening.
I can't get my hackles up on this one as if it were a Denkinger or Joyce "were you even in the same stadium as that play" bad call. He kicked it, but not through gross incompetence.
There is probably a better angle and Lugo's reaction makes it clear to me that he thought he was out but this is far from "the worst call ever."
Understanding that McKenry had done yeoman work he has to do a better job blocking the plate there. There was no need for a swipe tag, he needed to get in front and absolutely wipe out Lugo, make certain he didn't reach the plate.
MLB.com has a reverse angle that shows the tag better than ESPN.
Take a look at this video, beginning at about the 1:15 mark. The tag is unmistakable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ahCqEJEg5U
He wanted to make it the bar in time for last call, duh.
And, yes, as Proctor fell down leaving the box, the Pirates were probably going to get out of the inning with a throw to first.
A few things:
1) Lugo's reaction tells you absolutely nothing, because he was *so* dead to rights that most runners would expect to be called out there unless an attempted tag was nowhere close (at best, he *just* missed him), or he had executed some kind of fancy slide to elude the tag (he didn't).
2) Lugo was *so* dead to rights that Meals has to be *absolutely* certain that McHenry missed the tag to call him safe there. It's hard to see how he could be that certain, and his comments don't give the impression that he was.
Again, to be clear: Lugo should absolutely have been called out.
I'm sorry, but a runner who successfully eludes a tag will never ever just accept that he will be called out as a foregone conclusion.
You were on the Casey Anthony jury, weren't you?
Dude, they are scuffling a bit right now, just lost The Best Catcher In Baseball for a couple weeks in mid-game, and just won a 19 inning ball game
That merits some jumping around, come on.
Probably, since Proctor fell down. It seems to that it should be a stolen base, since there was an advantage to having the runner on second and avoiding the double play?
Naw, that was a handshake and pat on the back win, at best.
Understanding that McKenry had done yeoman work he has to do a better job blocking the plate there. There was no need for a swipe tag, he needed to get in front and absolutely wipe out Lugo, make certain he didn't reach the plate.
You mean "get wiped out by Lugo". Maybe he was reluctant to do that because of his glove hand getting hit by David Ross's bat yesterday.
I notice Hutcheson hasn't yet made an appearance. If this had gone the other way, you can get all sorts of carnage and violence would be promised throughout this thread....
The only story of note out of this game was Brian McCann pulling an oblique in the 10th and going on the 15 day disabled list. The Bucs lost a game. If they can't make that game up, they don't deserve to win the Central. The Braves lost their best player for at least 15 days.
The best part is that Lugo has an "oh ####\" moment and lunges to touch the plate after being called safe.
I think Meals is lucky that the game was in Atlanta. If it had been in Pittsburgh, he might not have gotten out of the stadium alive and in one piece.
Surely that's the first time in history that phrase has been used.
No, Dayn, that's just the look Lugo always has when he invokes his Shadowcat powers.
I mean, allowing for the swipe tag weirdness gets you to a spot where you can imagine the eyes deceiving you, but it seems that Lugo actually ran into McKenry's arm after that.
I really don't think it's the worst call of all damn time, but it's still a bad call.
Cry, cry. Whinge, whinge. Homeplate ump gets tired after 19 innings, has brain go fuzzy, makes himself believe he didn't see the glove get the runner on the pop-up slide. Wah.
Well, that's the most satisfying part of all this, you hand-waving away the call. Hilarious. And your gimpy catcher being gimpy is not news, sorry.
Yeah, but it's not like the ump whacked him on the knee with a retractable club. Injuries are impartial (unlike Meals, apparently).
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