re: Play with Morgan at 3rd/TF in 6th inning.

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Tre is out no matter what he does unless he was on the bag or just a few feet off the bag on the hit. The ball took the fielder right to third base.

He could have gotten in a run down and allowed runners to get to 2nd and 3rd, but the fact is that he was almost safe at home...

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This all day. That ball was in the worst spot possible for him. You hold on ground balls with no outs, but the ball was right at the bag and beat him there. He'd have been caught in a run down best case scenario. Which is really the best play in hindsight, but we can only say that knowing the result. It was a bang-bang play to throw judgement around as if that was obvious. The other thing that pissed me off is everyone yelling that he should have taken off right away and his hesitation caused the out. Again, hindsight....it was a play where he should have held up if the ball was anywhere other than where it went. IF that ball is the right of the third baseman he should be able to safely get back to the bag. So I get him taking a millisecond to evaluate if that's an option. Then there's his slide....man that was an amazing throw-catch-tag combo in the moment. I don't know how you expect someone to avoid a tag from a ball that short hopped under their body from a throw coming from behind them......:smh:

It was unfortunate. Are there baseball strategies that are more in line with what I like, definitely. I am all for bunts in those situations. But that's also not this team and I can respect that too. Could he have sacrificed himself in rundown to get the runners to second and third....definitely. But it was so damned close to a run that I can't second guess his decision.