Baseball is always happening, almost too baseball for a person to drive.
That is why we are here to help, he thought, examining the games of the previous days and discovering what you missed, but you should not have. These are the best moments of this weekend in Major League Baseball:
The giants come on … well, just look
Than the Giants He took off to defeat Texas Rangers Sunday cannot be distilled in a simple section header. No, we need an explanation and some video to have the complete sensation of what happened here. In short, he thought, it wasn’t pretty. For the Rangers, anyway.
To establish the scene: the game was tied, 2-2, at the bottom of the ninth entry in San Francisco. Luke Jackson I was on the mound for the Rangers, Heliot Ramos On the dish for giants. What happened next can not be explained with the help of Gameday’s description of the work, which says: “Heliot Ramos is found in a soft ground ball to the pitcher Luke Jackson. Heliot Ramos scores.”
Ramos Did Single in a soft ground ball to Jackson, yes, but how soft it could be a surprise consultation, it was enough to get a success. And much is reduced between “singles” and “scores”, too. Jackson sent the ball and threw it first while out of balance, and the launch left the brand. The ball was the first base and out of the wall in dirty territory, then touched a rebound in the right garden causing a gardener Adolis García Thinking to recover it, he thought, not with such urgency ashes was probably necessary.
Ramos’ initial slowed down in the second, then realized that he could continue since the ball was in anyone’s land between Garcia and First Baseman Jake hamburgerThen he taught for third place. Burger noticed that this happened, finally grabbed the ball, turned and threw the third … where he would bounce in front of Josh Smith – Who had moved to the hot corner from the campocorted previously in the game, and entered the shallow left garden. Ramos was almost halfway before someone in the Rangers did it again.
Basically at no time in that sequence, the Rangers made a good decision. Jackson should have only hero on the ball to hurry a release: Ramos was the first batter of the entrance, and it was only one, in a tie game. I would prefer not to have the corridor, of course, but consider the high probability of a wandering launch that allows Ramos to enter a punctuation position, and it would be better to keep it. Garcia probable should have moved faster once the ball was just a potential responsibility. Then you have hamburgers launching the third instead of hiring the base to Ramos, which was going to be safe even if the launch had arrived accurately. And then Smith is realizing too late that the ball was going to bounce at the same time that Ramos entered his slide, leaving him in a difficult place where he was basically obliged to dive, where the lady allow bouquets. As hey. Basically, the opposite of how the Up Ramos heads were from beginning to end in the small success.
Since the defense actively gave the game for the Rangers there, let’s focus on some outstanding defensive plays below. You know, for balance.
Tatis Jr. has an arm
Sometimes it is easy to forget that Fernando Tatis Jr. began his place somewhere with the garden, because his arm is powerful and precise. Here is throwing a beautiful hopper on the line to the plate, catching José Caballero In a play so close, it was under review.
The first view makes it clear that it was a great release, in the sense that it arrived on time, but the second angle in that video shows you how precise and level of a launch was that. A true laser. He Shovel I would end up losing to Good heavens4-2, but still. Beautiful launch!
Simpson steals a home run
Simpson Chandler Recently I received the call for the Rays, and although it is not clear how good it will be in the large long term, there are bees reasons to be optimistic. He is more than just speed, since he can make contact at a high pace and make good decisions on the plate, but he can also play in defense. Ash Manny Machado I learned on Saturday, when Simpson Tok left a home run of him:
Simpson, by the way, is hitting .400/.455/.433 on its first eight games and 33 appearances on the plate. He will never seek power, but if he can accumulate the singles and draw some walks, that will be.
Normally that is not what assistance means
What is amazing on this defensive stop is that the JP Crawford Campocorto did not hesitate absolutely about what I had to do next. It is not a second fraction. Hello, this ball walks, hits the medium for Needle‘First base Eric Wagamanin a way that forces him to hit the floor to do it. Hey immediate Turn the ball from your glove to the second base Thousands mastrobuoniThat seemed immutured for Crawford’s nonverbal application here, and launches the first in time to overcome the corridor.
Even writing everything and having seen it several times, it is still difficult to believe that it not only worked, but that the two were so synchronized and acted so instinctively in a very non -instinctive work.
Eugenio Suárez hits 4 home runs
The weekend was about the defense (or the lack of it). Diamond‘Slugger Eugenio Suárez Became the 19th player in MLB History to deepen four times in a game, and the first since 2017, Whenen JD Martínez He succeeded.
Somehow, the D-backs still lost this game, despite Suárez’s best efforts, only for the third time in history, for MLBthat a team with a four -cases player lost, with the other two in 1986 (Bob Horner and the Brave) and in 1896, when Ed Delahanty and Philadelphia achieved the feat. Next time, Suarez will only have to go deeply five times.
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