I don't understand why they don't at least try to throw the ball down or up and in. If you miss there you miss there, wasting pitches off the plate and then throwing over the middle is stupid. You get him out down and up and in.
You cannot throw Judge anything in the middle of the plate, nothing in the middle to either side of the zone. Throw at the bottom of the zone or the top of the zone.
Pretty much any team should make that DP. 98 MPH chest high one hopper to 2B who didn't even need to move and you can't double up a guy with a 26 MPH sprint speed? C'mon.
13 million for Kimbrel isn't exactly cheap. I don't think we really know what Elias is going to do now that the timer is ticking on all of these guys on the team, they need to win and it's harder to do hoarding guys in AAA until they are 27 and dumpster diving in areas of dire need.