Elly De La Cruz steals 2nd, 3rd and home!!!
- Thread starter rick64
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I was flipping channels and actually caught him stealing third and home.
This team is so much damn fun to watch.
Great theater, but what the hell is wrong with Brewers positioning of their 3B man once DLC reaches 2nd?
They were playing Fraley to pull so they had a shift on. They only needed one out and EDLC was scoring on a base hit from 2nd or 3rd either way.
OK. But there are a lot of other possibilities than a hit that DLC wouldn't score from second on. And if Fraley pulls, 3B playing SS doesn't do a thing. Then when he's on 3rd, he can go halfway down line to home with 3B playing deep SS & score on any defense miscue at plate. Net, if that concerned, walk Fraley.
There were 2 outs in the inning. They were playing the analytics that Fraley is a ground ball pull hitter. Fraley hasn’t shown the greatest ability to hit the other way and the ones he has they have gone to where the 3rd baseman was positioned. Based on pure analytics, the Brewers were playing the hitter perfectly. In that situation, the hitter is more important than the runner on base even if that runner is EDLC. On a ground ball out it doesn’t matter what base EDLC is on. The issue wasn’t where the infielders were. It was the pitcher turned his back on arguably the fastest player in MLB.
Got it. Give him 3B & let him score any which way. Wouldn't have mattered what the P did had they had a player covering 3rd, would it?
I'm surprised they gave him credit for a steal of 3rd given the Brewers & you were giving him 3rd with no play on him ever intended.
You seem to think he wouldn’t have stolen 3rd even if it was covered. He’s been caught twice and only because of sliding past the base. The Brewers played the analytics which is what they should do. Let’s do a shift but leave 3rd in his regular position. The chances are EDLC is going to still get 3rd and now we are leaving a massive gap in the infield in which the worst major leaguer could put a ball into play through. They couldn’t do both. The Brewers followed the numbers and those numbers are Fraley is much more likely to ground out to end the inning than EDLC is to get thrown out stealing 3rd.
This is the second time since 1961.
I think the other was Rod Carew.
The last Red was in 1908, first name of “Greasy.”