Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 03, 2003
Excuses, Excuses

I'm sorry to keep harping on this. I'm watching the Yankees-Reds, and Pettitte retires the first 10 batters. Sean Casey comes up, and hits a wicked line drive at Soriano. Now, I was never much of a fielder, but I remember they taught me to get in front of the ball. Soriano moves away from the ball and tries to field it by sticking out his glove. Of course, it goes by Soriano for a base hit. Kaat and O'Neill make the excuse that it's a hard hit ball and Soriano can't be expected to give up his body for it. Huh? That's exactly what Soriano should do. If it hits him in the chest, he throws the guy out.

Then of course, Griffey singles, runners on first on third, then on an easy DP ball, Soriano makes a bad throw, pulls Jeter off the bag, and Jeter can't make the throw to first in time. Tie game. Soriano gets the DP on the next batter, but where Pettitte should have a shutout, he gives up a run on shoddy defense.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:14 PM | Defense | TrackBack (0)