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2011-08-21 Brewers (Gallardo) at Mets (Dickey) - 12:10 PM CDT [Brewers sweep, 6-2]


1992casey
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Lucroy swung at ball 3 instead of taking all the way. If he did the next pitch would have drawn a walk. Some of these hitters need to stop trying to be a hero, get on base if the pitcher is going to concede it, and trust their teammates.

 

At least Hairston was able to bail out McGehee and Yuni B after another one of their terrible AB's though.

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Lucroy swung at ball 3 instead of taking all the way. If he did the next pitch would have drawn a walk. Some of these hitters need to stop trying to be a hero, get on base if the pitcher is going to concede it, and trust their teammates.

 

At least Hairston was able to bail out McGehee and Yuni B after another one of their terrible AB's though.

I'm not going to disagree about some of the bad approaches at the plate.

 

However, this line of thinking has always bothered me. When people say, "If this then it would have been this..." it indicates that they believe that the next action would be exactly the same even though the situation would have been different. This is simply not the case. Each pitch is a new event in a new situation so you never know what the pitcher would have done if the count were different before that pitch.

 

This argument is used all the time in sports for various situations and it just really bothers me... not trying to take it out on you specifically!

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