Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 14, 2004
About the Process

One of the big story lines of Moneyball was process; it mattered more how a hitter approached a plate apperance than the result. If you hit a HR swinging at a pitch out of the strike zone, you were criticized for that. If you swung at a good pitch and made an out, that was fine. Process won the game for the A's last night.

The Rangers took a one-run lead in the top of the 10th after poor fielding by McLemore and Crosby failed to turn consecutive ground balls into double plays. But with Cordero on to pitch in the bottom of the 10th, Durazo and Swisher walked. Crosby was asked to bunt, and the Rangers returned his poor fielding, making an error to load the bases. The McLemore walked to tie the game. Two outs later, Chavez came through with the game winning single. Two runs, one hit, three batters getting walks to set up the winning runs.

Here's a summary of the game and the fight. I would suspect Frank Francisco is going to get a long suspension.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:34 AM | Games | TrackBack (0)
Comments

I wonder exactly what was said to get everyone so riled up.
Apparently the woman who was hit is pressing charges, and is well within her rights to do so. Fransisco should get a minimum 30 game suspension. Plus a $10K fine.

Posted by: Robert at September 14, 2004 12:24 PM

There is an eyewitness account of the incident here, entry #41:
http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/primer/discussion/23264/

Posted by: Frank Gill at September 14, 2004 01:28 PM

Thanks Frank.
Generally, I dislike heckling, especially if it's just crude language. If you're going to do it, be creative; that'll more likely stick in a player's mind than "you suck, *&^*(&^$$@."

Still, fans are the ones paying, there's no excuse for chair throwing.

Posted by: Robert at September 14, 2004 01:57 PM