stupid, stupid baseball. Down 8 with the #3 hitter at the plate and you try to steal 2nd with 2 outs 1st and 3rd bottom of 5. I can't figure it out if these guys play tight or play loose with that move.
stupid, stupid baseball. Down 8 with the #3 hitter at the plate and you try to steal 2nd with 2 outs 1st and 3rd bottom of 5. I can't figure it out if these guys play tight or play loose with that move.
Look man, I get it, you hate Walter and will look for anything to use against him.
But do you really think he's giving Lanzilli bunt signals? He's a career .330-ish hitter. Chris is doing that on his own to try to bunt for a hit. He's already done so several times this season.
Wrong. Lanzilli definitely did not bunt on his own. I know many players on this team and talk to them all the time. They have said the bunt call comes from the hitting coach in the dugout not the third base coach and he calls it a lot.
So what is going on when Lanzilli is stepping out of the box, looking straight down the third-base line at Walter 50 feet away, who is giving frantic and extensive finger and fingers to opposite forearm signals for 5 to 10 seconds between bats?
He wouldn't be facing the batter from 50 feet to give a signal to a base runner for a hit and run or a steal.
This getting to be a ridiculous discussion. FWIW, if you watch the Deacs play, Lanzilli has and will bunt on his own. That's part of his game. To determine whether he did that at the point in question, only two people know: Walter and Lanzilli. So, unless someone is going to track them down and ask them about a situation that is now fading in memory, time to let it go.
There are plenty of issues to bring up about WF baseball without needing to get into whether a bunt sign was given. WF has played seven games, all at home, against teams with inferior talent and resources, and WF has managed to win just three of those games. This is an argument that we can keep simple.