Guardians 6, Twins 5: Twins Drop Winnable Opener to Guardians

[prouster]

4 hours ago, TwinsDr2021 said:

The way I look at it is there is someplace between 28% and 29% he gets a hits. (Basically his career average), Kepler has a 24% chance of getting a hit. Neither of them are great odds. But if Correa moves the runners up, Kepler has 23 career sac flies or if they walk him, Sanchez already has 2 this year.

Now since Correa doesn't have even one career sac bunt (that I can tell), the odds are he would have failed and this would be moot, but even giving a sign that he might bunt can change the fielders position and the pitches mind set

Correa came up with the winning run on second base and nobody out. You have your 3, 4, and 5 hitters in line to drive that run in. By letting him swing, your giving the team three chances to drive the run in instead of two. I just don’t think it’s good baseball to have your three hole hitter bunt, especially when the winning run is looking at him across the diamond. 

[dex8425]

On 6/22/2022 at 10:35 AM, Mark G said:

He likely "showed bunt" the first pitch to get the infield in to swing through, not to actually bunt.  Past history somewhat proves the theory.  

 

If you watched the game you would've seen that he showed bunt once and it wasn't the first pitch of the at bat.