First, thanks for reading!"Kiermaier busted out of the box giving his best effort – clearly aiming for two bases from the get-go. "
Yes he did hustle and Beckham did not, but It should be mentioned that the Kiermaier decision was horrible. It was a "bad" hustle play. He essentially made the last out at third seeing as a man was already there.
In my mind that has to be a "100% make it" decision. As well, it was the 2nd time in a week that Mookie cut him down so he really should have known. Don't mess with the Mook. It was horrible baserunning all the way around. "The worst baserunning of all time" Well, at least since Jeff Suppan.
FWIW, I read this as Kiermaier being a good teammate, both in the clubhouse and in the media. He knows the team lost by one run and that Beckham got demoted because of it. Taking responsibility and being accountable says to me that Kiermaier is a good dude. I'd want him on my team.Kiermeir as much as said how dumb his base-running was on that play. If he bluff-goes, or pulls up, the run automatically scores.
“It wasn’t a good play on my part. I saw Mookie [Betts] had a long run and I picked the wrong time to be aggressive. If I didn’t do that, we would have had [Evan Longoria] up. It just wasn’t a good baseball play by me,” Kiermaier said. “It was a really good throw, but I shouldn’t have gone in the first place. I’ll learn from it, but I am really disappointed in my decision right there. I should know better, especially with our best player behind me.
I don't agree with this 100%.First, thanks for reading!
Second, I somewhat disagree with your opinion here. Kiermaier, like all players, gets paid based on his stats, and a double is unquestionably better on the stat sheet than a single.
That said, Kiermaier's "horrible" decision shouldn't have even come into play. Beckham's lack of urgency caused the problem, not Kiermaier taking the extra base.
FWIW, I read this as Kiermaier being a good teammate, both in the clubhouse and in the media. He knows the team lost by one run and that Beckham got demoted because of it. Taking responsibility and being accountable says to me that Kiermaier is a good dude. I'd want him on my team.
As said in the piece, Beckham is probably already back in the dugout when Kiermaier is thrown out if Beckham is running hard on contact (with two outs) - and that is a "rule" of baseball.
2 runs and that was Beckham's 2nd time in a week on the basepaths. He was going down even if Tampa won, I think.FWIW, I read this as Kiermaier being a good teammate, both in the clubhouse and in the media. He knows the team lost by one run and that Beckham got demoted because of it.
That's a good point but I really haven't noticed as much over sliding (or coming off the bag) this year as last. I think guys have become much better at staying attached to the base because of replay.I think a goodly portion of that has to be the over sliding mentioned above coupled with replay. That stuff wasn't getting called very much without replay.
Doesn't mean that poor baserunning hasn't increased, but I doubt the numbers are really so much higher.
Well sure, and I agree. All I'm saying is that I think that the number of outs spiked when replay was first introduced and that changes in baserunning probably aren't as dramatic as the 1000 outs Ripken mentioned.That's a good point but I really haven't noticed as much over sliding (or coming off the bag) this year as last. I think guys have become much better at staying attached to the base because of replay.