Twins Upset with Sisco Bunting

[25 Nuggets]

5 minutes ago, interloper said:

Just another weird Orioles-related drama. There's always a couple per year, so why not get one going right out of the gate. What is it with teams starting beef with the Orioles? 

I think it's the Buck factor. 

Also, it doesn't take bifocals to see that Manny Machado ruffles feathers.

[ChrisP]

Sisco is moving up the charts fast my favorite Oriole to watch. I hope this rallies the team and they go on a tear for a few weeks.

[Aristotelian]

27 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

Take something you do every day without thinking, then do it a very different way with everyone watching. Like next time you give a presentation at work in front of a huge audience and your bosses, work the mouse and pointer and everything left-handed.

I have always felt it natural to have the fork in the left hand. Cut with the right, fork and eat with the left. How else would you eat without switching hands?

[Frobby]

13 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I don’t know about those guys, but I remember Frank Robinson bunted one time in the early seventies and it was reported in the paper as his first sac bunt in 12-13 years or so.

August 25, 1971.    His last previous sac bunt was in 1957.

[OFFNY]

1 hour ago, Legend_Of_Joey said:

 

Really, who cares? So the Twins got upset about it. They still won the last two games by a combined 13-2. 

The Orioles should be more worried about being down 7-0 in the 9th (or 6-0 in the 3rd.)

 

o

Except that the Orioles didn't initiate this "controversy." A Twins player initiated it.

Instead of being content with the fact that his team thoroughly outplayed the Orioles over the final 2 games of the series, Dozier chose to rub salt into the wounds and/or act as though Sisco and the Orioles had a lot of nerve to not play the game in a manner that he thought to be appropriate.

 

Dozier acted liked an ass. Roch Kubatko chimed in on it, and he is not an Orioles apologist. OH posters are simply responding to that, they are not using it to camouflage the Orioles' anemic offense, or the putrid starting pitching that they got in the final 2 games of the series.

 

o

[Moose Milligan]

F Brian Dozier.  Right in the neck.

 

5 minutes ago, Frobby said:

August 25, 1971.    His last previous sac bunt was in 1957.

You're like the Jim Palmer of posting.  

[Beef Supreme]

41 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

So I obviously need to be more minutely precise. In 1909 Honus Wagner was the best hitter and player in baseball and sacrificed 27 times. If Mike Trout sacrifice bunts 10 times this year I'll eat an Oriole pennant.

The players I mentioned are outliers. But they successfully incorporated bunting into their offensive attack. Others, conceivably, could do so, also.

What if Trout bunts for 10 base hits this year?

[bobmc]

54 minutes ago, NashLumber said:

Yeah, what’s the clubhouse rule of decorum for one-hitters. Inquiring minds want to know. Can’t be silence, as that’s reserved for no-hitters and perfect games. Only verbs? Adverbs? Onomatopia?

 

[Frobby]

6 minutes ago, Beef Supreme said:

The players I mentioned are outliers. But they successfully incorporated bunting into their offensive attack. Others, conceivably, could do so, also.

What if Trout bunts for 10 base hits this year?

It would be very surprising.   He has 4 bunt hits in his career, none since 2012.  

[Beef Supreme]

22 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

I have always felt it natural to have the fork in the left hand. Cut with the right, fork and eat with the left. How else would you eat without switching hands?

You are a Euro-eater.

[Frobby]

For what it’s worth, the 2017 leaders in bunt hits were:

Dee Gordon 18

Bryan Buxton 11

Cesar Hernandez 9

Freddy Galvis 8

Ender Inciarte 7

Cody Bellinger 6

Jose Altuve 6

 

[Beef Supreme]

2 hours ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

You don't even have to bunt, just hit the ball the other way.  I can't believe hitters are that stubborn and will hit the ball into the shift no matter what. 

There's a huge problem with this --  a lot of batters have a hard time hitting the ball to the opposite field. Imagine telling Austin Hays, "just hit the the ball the other way." The result is likely to be disappointing. You couldn't even have said that to David Lough and expect it to work. Most batters are better off trying to bunt against the shift rather than hit against the shift.

[glenn__davis]

18 minutes ago, bobmc said:

 

But it kind of annoys me that people keep including this as an "Unwritten Rule of Baseball".  Because this isn't even that.  If it were a no-hitter?  Sure, that would have some merit and could be debated.  But I literally have no idea what the Twins' beef was here.  

[Going Underground]

The Twins should worry more about Lance Lynn and his Oriole type first inning for pitchers. Five runs given up.

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, glenn__davis said:

But it kind of annoys me that people keep including this as an "Unwritten Rule of Baseball".  Because this isn't even that.  If it were a no-hitter?  Sure, that would have some merit and could be debated.  But I literally have no idea what the Twins' beef was here.  

The best part of them not being written down is you can make them up as you go along.