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Originally Posted by kcpasco
Just watched the replay, wtf was Ozuna doing? And why the **** did MM put the winning run on base? The players are just as dumb as the jerkoff manager.
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Ozuna didn't have a chance. Off the bat it looked like a basic hard hit liner in his general vicinity so he had to go after it with the tying run in scoring position. But because Bowman didn't get a ball below the belt all night, predictably the ball was scorched and had some nasty sink to it. There was no way to see that sink off the bat and he had to be aggressive in that situation so he ended up pot-committed. I actually thought he made a hell of an effort to make it as close as it was. The sink killed him and he just couldn't have known that was going to happen.
Nope - Ozuna can't wear anything there. He did the only thing you'd expect a generally good LFer to do there. A shitty one just lays back, concedes the tying run and watches Bowman blow it with the next batter. A superlative one probably gets it. Ozuna is neither of those - he's simply a pretty good defensive player that ended up in no man's land.
This is Matheny's shit sandwich and nobody else's.