re: Pitching decision was wrong, but Goldilocks was no prize either

KR's main problem is that he tries to do too much. He's a dam good ball player. But he makes a lot of mental errors. Tonight highlights that big time

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But I'm fairly sure that was the "pitching decision " the OP was referring to no?

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Well I don't know since OP didn't elaborate. But even if he did, that still wasn't the reason we lost. We had two guys thrown out at 2nd to kill rallys. You can't do that and beat a team like Florida.

At the end of the day we only gave up 4 runs. And there are plenty of mental errors to point out that may have made the difference. Leaving Reynolds in was just one of those decisions.

And this is also a hindsight issue. Reynolds was doing fine. We don't have many options out of the bullpen. Leaving him in to start the 4th was the right decision. We just let him go one batter too many.

All three walks scored... we lost by 1... but you choose instead to blame getting thrown out at second.. ok if you say so

My point is we can play this game all day. You can blame Paul for leaving Reynolds in and walking 3 guys. But you could also blame Kramer for not letting Duplantis catch that foul ball and hold the runner at 3rd. You could also blame Watson for making a bad read and letting that ball get over his head. And you can blame baserunning for taking guys out of scoring position when that was hard to come by tonight.

My point is that that there were a lot of mental errors and we still had a chance to win despite Reynolds staying in too long.

At the end of the day we lost but we live to fight another day. And we were in this same position a week ago and Poche and Lange came through. I still like our chances.

Agree with all but duplantis part. If he catches it, run still scores. Ball going to 3rd was the only mistake there

On the ball in the hole? Pretty sure he wasn't gonna make that throw in time anyway. Base hit all the way. Unless I'm thinking of something else

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When he tried to switch from glove to hand and missed the ball, letting it fly away from him instead of making the throw to 1st. Was that not marked down as an error? Okay, it was a big frickup, stat or otherwise.

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Not only was that not recorded as an error, but it led to nothing. All their runs were scored off of 3 walks and then later a lead off double. I am a huge KRob hater but let's not make up shite.

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The frick are u talking about? The ball shoujd have gone to 3rd. Who gives a shite if anybody is at 2nd?

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Even if throw went to third, there would have still been a play at the bag and not a certainty we would have recorded an out. However, regardless of where the throw went - third, home, cut-off - if someone covers 2nd, Florida runner does not advance to 2nd.

Next batter hits a ground rule double which allows the runner from 2nd to score. If he would have been on first, he would not have scored. That is the difference of 1 run. we lost by one run

Do you now understand the importance of the runner advancing to 2nd bc no one covered the bag?