3rd Base coach for Royals should have waved him home...

agree actually hahah

Hindsight and all that.....he would have caught major hell making the last out of game seven at home plate

Did you not see how slow his arse was? I could have thrown him out.

No. He maybe if he was busting it out of the box. But he wasn't.

It wouldn't have even been close. This shouldn't even be a discussion.

Though when the outfielder booted it I seriously thought we would see a play at the plate. But he wasn't busting it around the base path hard enough.

He should've scored while the pop up foul ball was in the air

Gordon was touching third by the time the relay guy got the ball to the cut off guy pretty deep away.. But Gordon was not really running well enough.. Who knows what kind of thrown would have happened there with the pressure mounting.. It would have been so exciting

Pretty sure Brandon Crawford got the relay? He has a good arm and is accurate as well

I thought for sure there would be a play at the plate after the bobble. Gordon isn't consiered slow, but it's been a long season. Idk. I expected him to try and score considering his athleticism

Nate Silver agrees with you and Nate Silver generally knows his shite.

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The point is that if even Gordon had been a 2-to-1 underdog to score, he should have tried.

These decisions can be counterintuitive. Sometimes a strategy that’s successful less than 50 percent of the time — like splitting eights in blackjack — is still the right move because the alternative is even worse. In this case, the alternative involved trying to score against Bumgarner with your catcher at the plate and two outs, and then having to prevail in extra innings.

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It would have made for one of the best plays in baseball history. We’re talking about the tying run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning in Game 7 of the World Series: Even a sacrifice fly can be thrilling under those circumstances. But this would have been in a league with Bill Mazeroski and Kirk Gibson and Bill Buckner: under serious consideration for the greatest play of all-time. (The play already had a little Buckner in it, with Blanco’s and Perez’s misplays in the outfield.)

Unlike any of those moments, it would have involved an incredibly gutsy decision. It’s an extraordinary play if Gordon scores. It’s an extraordinary play if there’s a collision at home plate — and baseball needs to decide whether to invoke the “Buster Posey Rule.”

And if Gordon were thrown out, it would have been the most extraordinary way to lose a game in the history of baseball.

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