Little thing
Matt Belisle's bright guy, so he took the mound in the third knowing he had cost himself a run. Belisle failed to get down a sacrifice bunt with runners at first and second with no outs in the second. It went down as a strikeout for the first out.
Ryan Freel followed by grounding into a 6-3 double play. If Belisle gets the bunt down, Freel's ball would have be an RBI groundout with Brandon Phillips coming up with two outs and a runner on third.
That said, the Reds were 4-for-4 on sacrifices coming into the game.
Belisle wasn't happy with the screw-up.
"That's bad -- seriously," he said. "I've got to get that down."
posted by John Fay at 7:57 PM
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Post a Comment*Great outing by Belisle. All we need is the 3,4 and 5 starter to give us a quality outing every other time out and we'll be fine this season.
JDee
Jeff Brantley said that the only reason for not being able to bunt was because you're afraid of the ball...he said what you're doing is catching the ball with the bat and if you're afraid of the ball, you won't want to catch it. (Paraphrased, of course.)
I tend to agree, there is no reason for pitchers to be such bad bunters (not singling out Belisle)...it's a skill they don't appear to spend much time working on.
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