Somebody in Texas is a dummy
I’m just not sure who it is yet. Rangers-Rays, fourth inning, two out, Ian Kinsler batting. Nelson Cruz is on second, and then he suddenly breaks for third like there’s any reason for it. Whose idea was that? Cruz’s? Manager-of-the-Year-to-be Ron Washington’s? Whoever thought that one up, you’re bad at your job.
Consider this. Any player fast enough to steal third is fast enough to score from second on, like, any hit at all. So here’s the whole list of reasons to steal third:
• To make it easier to score on a sac fly.
• To set up a squeeze play.
And did I mention there were two outs? Yeah. Two outs. So nobody’s sacrificing a damn thing. Were you really thinking squeeze with two out? With Ian Kinsler, not the world’s very fastest man, doing the squeeze? There is a word for this, and that word is: yikes.
Postscript: Kelly Shoppach chunked the ball out into left field somewhere, and Cruz scored. So, hey, good. Good throw. It was still a stupid idea in the first place, though.
