8/22/2023 Against the Astros of Houston
- Thread starter Sandy Leon Trotsky
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Curious to hear about the Verdugo issue. The home plate ump is calling a solid game, and he reacted quickly with the ejection. Love Dugie's passion, but still waiting for some maturity and poise at age 27 is kind of a thing.
Raffy reacted about as soon as you want on the replay. One of catcher/pitcher needs to cover home.
I mean, he needed to thread a needle, and he threw it on the opposite side of the plate. Plenty of blame to go around, but that throw sucked.
His "seven weeks" comment after the last dust-up with Cora could be interpreted in more than one way.
Devers was 30 feet from home when he threw it lol. He hit him in stride basically, the problem was that Devers and Houck had zero baseball awareness. Was a nice toss from Casas.
Millar trying to defend them but even he talks himself into a pretzel.
"Devers can't go home sooner because then no one is covering 3rd and then Doubon uh... can't... uh... you know he just can't do that any earlier".
TBS explained why it was his fault. As soon as Wong goes for the ball, it's the third baseman's responsibility to start heading for home to cover. Raffy broke late, which forced Casas to try to hit him in stride
Raffy was standing still at third with his glove by his side watching the play unfold. He had no clue what the runner was doing until he was on top of him at third and then he ran nearly got shoved out of the way. It's on him to be alert and responsible for any runner coming his way.
I’m as hard on Raffy’s D as the next guy, but that run was not on him. He covered his base on the bunt and broke for home literally before the baserunner. The pitcher needs to cover home in that situation.
For sure! He'll never forget that moment. He went down swinging against a HOF pitcher.
Wong made a good throw but with runners on you really can’t wait to see if the ball will roll foul. He needed to make a decision sooner.
I agree, it's 100% on Devers. He has to know a runner is coming to 3rd, the catcher is half way up the 1st base line, and no one else is covering.
It's not a typical play admittedly, I'm sure some would have done the same as Raffy, but someone with a good baseball IQ and is paying attention should have been heading home way sooner.
Maybe is was just a weird play and we don't have to use it as a referendum on player acumen.
