Yesterday was the third time our illustrious manager Dusty Baker has been involved in a batting-out-of-order snafu that resulted in a free out for the other team.
Looks like the Enquirer just used Dusty as his source. He’s a much more objective source of Baker’s history. I count at least four times his name comes up in these situations:
Maybe we should just draw names out of a hat every other inning. Why not?
On an unrelated note, their was a Sporting News article by some guy named…Dunleavy, I think. Might have messed up the name. But he did his MLB power rankings. I was looking for the Reds and kept scrolling down, down, down. They were on the very bottom of the list. The last team in all the majors. Now I know these kinds of lists are questionable, but it sure is depressing none the less. Last.
I’m pretty sure we’re gonna have to boo him off the field before anything changes. This is exactly what Cubs fans warned us about — certain players getting in the lineup all the time regardless of numbers. I hate to keep beating on the point here, but someone needs to call Baker out on this and get an explanation for why a sub-.200 batter with sub-.300 OBP is hitting leadoff.
Technically, no out was caused by this embarrassment yesterday. Ross flew out. Patterson didn’t even get to swing – but was charged with Ross’ out. Ross then batted in his actual place and got a single. 2 outs followed.
As I understand it, the only way we could have lost an out was if A) Ross had reached safely in place of Patterson or B) if Patterson had reached safely in place of Ross.
Because of the Red’s weak offense and Willie Randolph’s inexperience (not waiting to see what Patterson would have done), no free out transpired.
Got to give Dusty credit for correctly (mostly)remembering his involvement as a hitter in one of these screw-ups. His three-run homer after hitting into a force out sounded like bull, but, except for thinking it was against the Reds instead of the Phillies, he had it right. It’s interesting that it seems that the manager that catches the other team batting out of order seems to make the wrong decision on whether or not to raise the point rather often, as Dallas Green did in Dusty’s case.
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I think of two more years with Dusty Baker and I feel physically ill. The Cubs fans were right on just about every account when they tried to warn us.
We say W-L records are not the stat by which we should measure pitchers. The same should be said about managers.
Looks like the Enquirer just used Dusty as his source. He’s a much more objective source of Baker’s history. I count at least four times his name comes up in these situations:
http://www.retrosheet.org/outturn.htm
Maybe we should just draw names out of a hat every other inning. Why not?
On an unrelated note, their was a Sporting News article by some guy named…Dunleavy, I think. Might have messed up the name. But he did his MLB power rankings. I was looking for the Reds and kept scrolling down, down, down. They were on the very bottom of the list. The last team in all the majors. Now I know these kinds of lists are questionable, but it sure is depressing none the less. Last.
Even if it’s Ross, you can’t blame him for wanting to get someone other than Patterson at the plate.
Patterson leading off today vs. the Marlins.
I’m pretty sure we’re gonna have to boo him off the field before anything changes. This is exactly what Cubs fans warned us about — certain players getting in the lineup all the time regardless of numbers. I hate to keep beating on the point here, but someone needs to call Baker out on this and get an explanation for why a sub-.200 batter with sub-.300 OBP is hitting leadoff.
Technically, no out was caused by this embarrassment yesterday. Ross flew out. Patterson didn’t even get to swing – but was charged with Ross’ out. Ross then batted in his actual place and got a single. 2 outs followed.
As I understand it, the only way we could have lost an out was if A) Ross had reached safely in place of Patterson or B) if Patterson had reached safely in place of Ross.
Because of the Red’s weak offense and Willie Randolph’s inexperience (not waiting to see what Patterson would have done), no free out transpired.
Got to give Dusty credit for correctly (mostly)remembering his involvement as a hitter in one of these screw-ups. His three-run homer after hitting into a force out sounded like bull, but, except for thinking it was against the Reds instead of the Phillies, he had it right. It’s interesting that it seems that the manager that catches the other team batting out of order seems to make the wrong decision on whether or not to raise the point rather often, as Dallas Green did in Dusty’s case.