re: Regarding Jay’s late inning decisions

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His mistake was putting Merrifield at second instead of the faster Kling

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That was something else I noticed. I get that they were on 1st and 2nd when they went in, and you want the faster Kling to be able to score on a double. But when it happened that it was Merrifield at 3rd, just don’t do it. He had zero chance. A team like Wake Forest practices that situation. We weren’t gonna catch them off guard, they weren’t gonna panic, and they were gonna make a good throw and get our guy by 10 feet. Because they are really well coached and practice the little things like that. That play is for high school’s who don’t practice it and are more likely to either be totally caught off guard or freak out and make a terrible throw. Unless you have a super fast runner on 3rd. We did it in college because we had a guy who ran the fastest 60 in the country.

And the guy was struggling with his command. He walks Pearson and we have Crews up with the bases loaded. Again, Jay doing something we don’t do. That’s not our identity.