I agree with securing it better, but stuff happens. Also, there is a difference between a quick glance at a bunch of code words in a dogpile, which requires a photographic memory to actually do anything with the info, and having the list in hand and having time to study it, perhaps copy it, decipher it (if necessary), and spread the info to teammates. No reason he couldn't have left it where it was or handed it back to the catcher.
I don't get why they wouldn't just scan the whole thing, scrawl "HA HA HA" on it, then hand it back over. Would be a lot more fun than refusing to hand it back.
This is some appealing logic. We can also reverse the offenders/victims and have the catcher pick up the bat of a player who has just hit and gouge the wood with his spikes (making it useless) or instead pick it up and smash it in two. Maybe there is no “hands off the other team’s equipment” rule, which would extend to equipment containing mostly info, but there should be.
Are these cheat sheets considered equipment? Is there anything making them off limits in this sort of situation? If one team chooses to bring some sort of written out game plan onto the field of play should it not be their responsibility to protect it?
Holy cow, I had no idea he was at a .570 OBP this month. That is a silly mode stat.
The fact that the Nats have Soto and Bell (.817 OPS) and nobody else who can hit helped make this stat. Soto to his credit isn't changing his approach at the plate.
It’s hard to understand how a team with Soto, Turner, Schwarber, and Scherzer wasn’t more competitive in a lousy division, isn’t it?
Cardinals win 8-5 to make it 12 straight wins. Their magic number for the 2nd Wild Card is 6.
