ALDS Game 2:Guardians(Bieber) at Yankees(Cortes) 1:07 PM EDT
Oct 15, 2022 10:45:54 GMT -5
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Post by rizzuto on Oct 15, 2022 10:45:54 GMT -5
Just watched the highlights and lowlights of the game yesterday (afternoon 
) that I missed at work. I suppose most working people are at work at 1:00 PM on a Friday.
It's always interesting how a bad umpire can affect the game innings later, conceivably. Consider the pitch that was an obvious ball that Stanton took for a strike before his home run. With the bases loaded in regulation, Stanton swung and struck out at a nearly identical pitch and location as the called ball in the first inning. Calls like that get imprinted into a hitter's mind. Stanton, conceivably, was protecting against a pitch and pitch location called a strike earlier in the game.
Talk about luck. Donaldson hits a liner that was caught off the shoe strings, and the Guardians (tough to say) win on two bloop-de-bloops, a near shoestring catch, and a world-challenging awful centerfield route by Willie Mays Bader, who was likely not accustomed to the shadows at that time of a day game in Yankee Stadium. Probably lost the ball off the bat, then again in the air. Similar ball and trajectory that we saw confound Florial during the regular season.
) that I missed at work. I suppose most working people are at work at 1:00 PM on a Friday. It's always interesting how a bad umpire can affect the game innings later, conceivably. Consider the pitch that was an obvious ball that Stanton took for a strike before his home run. With the bases loaded in regulation, Stanton swung and struck out at a nearly identical pitch and location as the called ball in the first inning. Calls like that get imprinted into a hitter's mind. Stanton, conceivably, was protecting against a pitch and pitch location called a strike earlier in the game.
Talk about luck. Donaldson hits a liner that was caught off the shoe strings, and the Guardians (tough to say) win on two bloop-de-bloops, a near shoestring catch, and a world-challenging awful centerfield route by Willie Mays Bader, who was likely not accustomed to the shadows at that time of a day game in Yankee Stadium. Probably lost the ball off the bat, then again in the air. Similar ball and trajectory that we saw confound Florial during the regular season.