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Baseball Musings
October 21, 2007
Oops!

The Red Sox make their first fielding mistake of the night. Lugo goes back into left on a pop up, calls off Ramirez, then drops the ball. Lofton winds up at second, the tying run.

Update: Gutierrez lines one right over the third base bag for a hit. Skinner holds up Lofton at third, thinking the carom off the wall was going right to Manny. Okajima then induces Blake to hit into a 5-4-3 GDP to end the inning. It's the first time they've retired Blake tonight. A bad call by an ump cost the Indians a run the last time Lofton was up, and now a conservative call by the third base coach may have done the same. I don't think you can fault Skinner too, much, however. That was a tough one to call.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:48 PM | League Championship Series | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Lugo needs to send Joel Skinner a fruit basket this offseason. He just saved Lugo's career in Boston.

Posted by: Paul at October 21, 2007 10:55 PM

That carom seemed to send the ball right to Manny Ramirez... I don't know if Lofton would've been able to score.

Posted by: Adam Villani at October 21, 2007 10:59 PM

Are you joking? There was no play on Lofton at home if he rounds the bag hard. You can and should fault Skinner, he has a job to do, and he blew it. There's no point in crying about it, but pretending it was nobody's fault is a bit dishonest.

Posted by: Johnson at October 21, 2007 11:02 PM

Now that I've seen the simultaneous replay, yeah, I've gotta agree that there's no way Manny would've made that play. Bad call by Skinner.

Posted by: Adam Villani at October 21, 2007 11:15 PM
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