Cardinals 3, Twins 2: Key Error Dooms Twins in 9th, Cardinals Take Series

[mikelink45]

10 hours ago, JD-TWINS said:

Lewis doubled to put the Twins ahead & you’re still second guessing the managing??? …..,just don’t get it …any offensive move/substitution at the plate is GREAT if it works 30% (.300 BA) of the time. It’s baseball - not certainty

Boy do you miss the point. Louis was not the first pinch hitter. We have a number of people who can be pinch hit for. But Larnach and Wallner are not the two I would choose. Depending on what happened later, they are out of your lineup. Yes, Lewis succeeded and I'm glad and I think he would have succeeded no matter who pinch hit for

[mikelink45]

14 hours ago, Riverbrian said:

I'll keep preaching Mike. But... you'll give me a thumbs down eventually, 

Because what I'm preaching is why you keep Polanco in the off-season. Instead of trading him for lesser players. 

Yes... I fully admit that I would probably be complaining about Polanco if he was still on the roster hitting like he has been hitting. 

Hate to disappoint you but I can't do a thumbs down yet. 

[MinnInPa]

23 hours ago, chpettit19 said:

It was actually Farmer at SS, not Castro. But the pitch he hit was a splitter, not a fastball. 96 MPH "offspeed" pitch. Odds are the fielders knew that. Farmer may even have been wearing the pitchcom device and heard the pitch call. But the fielders know what pitch is coming. And when you have a "flame throwing pitcher" throwing his offspeed stuff it makes sense to play the guy to pull as you expect the hitter to be geared up for 100 and get 96. 

played SS myself for many years ..i know the drill... i think i'd still shy towards the 3rd base side whenever Duran is pitching ..that was a routing hopper

[chpettit19]

31 minutes ago, MinnInPa said:

played SS myself for many years ..i know the drill... i think i'd still shy towards the 3rd base side whenever Duran is pitching ..that was a routing hopper

That's fair. But Duran 62% of balls in play on Duran are grounders. And and 68% of balls in play against him are pulled or up the middle. You'd be playing for 32% of balls in play against him instead of 68%.