Smith is back out on the field taking grounders.

2nd coming of Bregmann

Good for him. Made an error or two in the field, but at least he's doing whatever it takes to get better and fix his mistakes.

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Made an error or two in the field, but at least he's doing whatever it takes to get better and fix his mistakes.

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Honestly, that first error was bullshite. Not many players in baseball can stop that ball.

I was not happy at all with pulling the infield in in those 3 innings. In the 1st and 3rd, it’s way too early to give up outs (which happened) and in the 5th, we were down 5 runs already and saving a single run didn’t seem as imprortant as an out. Odd decisions all of them.

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I was not happy at all with pulling the infield in in those 3 innings. In the 1st and 3rd

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That was weird as hell.

I understand doing it when we got down a few runs, doing it down 1-0 was kind of stupid to me.

The other puzzling decision was not pinch running for Chris Reid after he got the walk. No reason to not pinch run Hughes there. That was tying run.

We saw that, too. Was Hughes getting loose still? All I could think of at the time was 2 outs and he was still on 1st. Although if Smith hits a double, does Reid score? Probably not as often as Hughes.

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I understand doing it when we got down a few runs, doing it down 1-0 was kind of stupid to me.

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PM did it in the top of the 1st, in a scoreless game.

I never saw him play at catholic and not sure why that’s relevant. I did see him play games this fall. Saw his numbers last summer in collegiate league. He’s a SS. Period.

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PM did it in the top of the 1st, in a scoreless game.

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You are correct, forgot about that one, also dumb. I understand doing it down 5. Each successive run could not be afforded at that point.