Originally Posted by gman
albies bunts him over...you have a passed ball threat, freddie's grounder may have got thru a pulled in infield or he just may have been able to get a ball in the air. I'm old school, i'll take the bat outta his hands to move the winning run 90' away, with 2 outs to work with to get him in. Earlier in the game, sure you let him swing away.


This ^^^^. Way more ways to score from 3rd than there is from 2nd. You don't need a big inning. You need 1 run. A good hitter is anyone hitting 300 or above but to lay down a blunt that advances the runner is not that difficult. If he only advances the runner 60% of the time (the percentage should be much higher than this) he's given his team a much better chance of scoring, either on a wild pitch, a sacrifice , a balk , a hit , or an error. If it were the 5th inning, swing away but when you only need 1 run in the 8th the decision seems easy, in my opinion.

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