If I'm managing against Lester, and the bottom of my lineup is at the plate, every fucking guy is trying to lay a bunt down between the mound and the third base line.
WS Game 7: A Curse Dies and a Curse Continues
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Some people seem shocked by the Lester throwing thing, but it's been going on for a few years now and he has done just fine. Other teams don't steal that many bases on him and teams don't bunt a lot on him either.
True but that was injury. I see no shame in exploiting a player who can't execute a basic tenet of the game.
He can and he probably will. Because he's Joe Maddon, and damn it, he's smarter than you.
Yes. It might work but you basically are pulling a total bitch move which will ensure you have no respect in the sport.
yeah, snickers for me at most. I can handle a milky way every once in a while. The older I get, the less sweet gooey stuff. My dad loved all of that until the end, though
The thing about everyone bunting against him is that bunting is weird--if you spend two innings trying to bunt him into fucking something up, and they all end up as plays Bryant/ Rizzo/ Ross can make, you've wasted a ton of outs on that when you maybe could have just beaten him--he's great, but he's not Randy Johnson. You can understand given the choice teams wanting to just try and beat him straight up.
So yeah. I like this idea.
Why not use one of your other bullpen guys here? Only bring in Chapman once the tying run gets to the on deck circle. You just watched a tired Miller give up three. No reason it can't happen to Chapman.
Win that way and Abner Doubleday wouldn't respect you in the morning.
This seems like the fastest moving game of the series, even though you'd think it would be played at a crawl.
I'm telling you, I have a bad, bad feeling about Chapman tonight. If I'm a Cub fan, I'm praying for a big rally in the top of the 9th to pad the lead (if there is still a lead).
Don't see Cleveland picking themselves up off the mat suddenly. Great, great series where Joe Maddon was really the only thing that swayed me (away, it's going to be awful listening to games he's involved in after he's won). Indians magic just didn't last long enough. Some bad defense and normal pitching performances was enough for the Cubs to wake up.
Tough to not think of the Sox doing this; muscling their way through the slump, winning just enough until everyone gets going.
Tough to not think of the Sox doing this; muscling their way through the slump, winning just enough until everyone gets going.
If Billy Martin had been managing '04 ALCS G6, he would have had his team bunt against Schilling. No one respected him anyway, but everybody feared him.
They just showed him here (Canada's Sportsnet switched to the Vasgersian/Martinez international feed for the WS).
