Tony Massarotti
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Put this together as best I could ... Cade Cavalli claimed Contreras demonstrated poor baseball etiquette and cut in front of him as he walked off the mound to end the first, so here is the best recreation I can give you based on the broadcasts ... Boston TV (NESN) was focused on Contreras ... Washington broadcast (via MLB.TV) focused on Cavalli ... the last sequence was spliced together to try to give you a proper timeline ... it all started with Jarren Duran's flyout to end the first inning:
Tony Massarotti419,699 次观看 • 4 个月前
All this talk about Pat Murphy got me reminiscing about a time when managers actually made strategic decisions and could impact a game. For example ... On Opening Day 1997, the Red Sox trailed the Angels by a 5-2 score entering the ninth. Angels manager Terry Collins brought in closer Troy Percival, who struck out the first two batters of the inning. Percival then started having control problems and allowed a double, walk and infield single to load the bases. He then walked two more to force in a pair of runs and make the score 5-4. Before the walk that made it 5-4, left-handed pinch-hitter Troy O'Leary was in the on-deck circle, ready to bat in place of the right-handed Rudy Pemberton. (Percival was right-handed; O'Leary and Pemberton were starting the season as a platoon.) But when he saw that Percival was wild, then-Red Sox manager Jimy Williams feared that Collins would remove Percival from the game if he sent O'Leary to the plate. So what did Williams do? He defied the matchups and pulled O'Leary back into the dugout, sending Pemberton back into the on-deck circle. When Percival completed the walk to make it 5-4, Collins left his closer in the game and Pemberton batted. Here's what happened. (Hint, the Red Sox won the game, 6-5, largely because O'Leary was available to hit against a right-hander, Pep Harris, who came on after after Pemberton tied the score.) Today, this would never happen.
Tony Massarotti46,429 次观看 • 15 天前
Emergency edition of #BreakingBalls on the Tarik Skubal deal ... If you don't smell a rat with the way things have gone down in MLB and the LA Dodgers in recent years, you should smell one now ... full installment coming shortly #MLB #Skubal #RedSox #DirtyWater #Dodgers
Tony Massarotti199,885 次观看 • 3 个月前
A quick look at the ninth-inning at-bat by Roman Anthony last night - eight pitches in all. A couple of things to note: * The first two called strikes came on steals, when Anthony allowed David Hamilton to advance. * The hit had an exit velocity of slightly more than 80 mph, which means the analytics nerds probably see it as a failed at-bat, which it wasn't. In fact, it was big time. Believe your eyes.
Tony Massarotti70,378 次观看 • 1 年前
