
Effectively Wild Episode 1863: Belly to Bellyache
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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Are Your Handmates Just Even Looking at Your Hands?
Patrion listener dubran asked why runners don't run through the bag in a loaded to out situation. The cardinals have been practising that exact play this year and tried it a couple of times, unsuccess ly. If safe, the cards take the lead. But if he had slowed down, if he had slid into second, then perhaps he would not have been safe,. because he would have had to break his momentum. And this way he just didn't slow down. So pretty clever. gebran wrote in to say, you say, this makes me wonder why every team doesn't do this? It could possibly steal more runs for the pirates. We hope this becomes
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