Because the game is on NBC, not NBCSN thankfully

With the alternative being watching this garbage, people would find a way to watch it even if it was on MTV85.

Also, it was a pleasure watching another stellar minor league product in Troncoso throw junk up there.

Also, it was a pleasure watching another stellar minor league product in Troncoso throw junk up there.

 

Boy, he looked horrible. From the way he started out of the stretch to his delivery of the ball, to the meat that laid over the plate ... fail.

A couple of things to remember.

 

In Reed's defense, he was sent out there for the fourth consecutive day. That's pretty unheard of. That said, he had enough on the fastball to get it past Bautista, it was the hanging slider that sped up his bat which ultimately killed him.

 

Also, I read somewhere online that one of the many reasons that they let AJ go was because he didn't want to call low/outside breaking balls is because he was getting lazy and/or didn't want to block pitches in the dirt.

 

Even if that was true, which I doubt it, Flowers' technique with trying to backhand a ball with critical runners on base was just brutal. We're leading all of MLB in passed balls by a wide margin.

 

Finally, Alexei's never going to get over that issue of being afraid of contact with the base runners, gator-arming the ball or trying to field it on the 3B side of the bag and THEN reach across instead of making the catch and getting the tag right in front of second simultaneously. That missed tagout was the end of the game, essentially.

Edited June 12, 201312 yr by caulfield12