The Royals had Salvador Perez at the plate - a league-average hitter - and the light-hitting Mike Moustakas due up after that. We should probably round that down a bit in this example. It would have been the right move if he was safe even 30 percent of the time.īetween 19 - I’m using this period because it better approximates baseball’s current run-scoring environment than the offensive bubble of the 1990s and aughts - a runner scored from third base with two outs about 27 percent of the time, according to the tables at. Here’s what I know: Gordon should have tried to score even if he was a heavy underdog to make it. It seemed to take an eternity - it was actually just 13 seconds - but I was surprised that Gordon wasn’t rounding third base by the time the TV cameras returned to the infield. But mostly I’m referring to that penultimate play: When Gordon hit what was officially scored as a single and wound up on third base because of defensive miscues by San Francisco Giants outfielders Gregor Blanco and Juan Perez.
/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2406266/3b.0.jpg "alex gordon game 1 home run")
Alex gordon game 1 home run series#
Partly because it involved the Kansas City Royals, who were making their first World Series appearance since 1985. Game 7 will leave us with that sense of what might have been. It would have been one hell of a moment: Gordon, 220 pounds, who looks like he could have been a strong safety at the University of Nebraska, bearing down on Buster Posey, the catcher whose season-ending injury in 2011 helped inspire baseball’s home-plate collisions rule. I’m sure there will be Zapruder-film-type breakdowns, and I’ll look forward to seeing them. Alex Gordon might have scored, particularly if he’d been in the mindset to do so all along.
0 kommentar(er)
