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Tuesday, August 17: Can Means stop the losing streak in the Dome?

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WillyM
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Striking out is bad enough, but I was disappointed to see Stewart just walk away from the plate, even though Zunino had to block the pitch in the dirt and couldn't catch it cleanly. A lot of play

maybenxtyr
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Any plan that has Means as an integral part of the rebuild/competing may need to be rethought at this point. 

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Chris Holt has really done a nice job with this pitching staff.  

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18 minutes ago, Philip said:

I don’t know anything about spider tack, but I wonder if Means is going to have to re-learn to pitch? He has four strikeouts in two innings, but he’s also thrown 41 pitches, which would work out to 120+ pitches in six innings and that’s not gonna work out.

He’s at 66 now, he’ll be lucky to get through 5 IP.

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46 minutes ago, Gurgi said:

Stewart looked a little over powered that at bat.  He was dominated. 

Striking out is bad enough, but I was disappointed to see Stewart just walk away from the plate, even though Zunino had to block the pitch in the dirt and couldn't catch it cleanly.

A lot of players seem to be doing that nowadays.  If you're a superstar and your team is winning big, maybe I can understand wanting to conserve energy.  But Stewart is not a superstar and the score was tied.

For crying out loud, run to first!  Make the catcher throw the ball to the first baseman.  There's always the chance he could make a bad throw and you'll be safe - which you certainly won't be if you just walk back to the dugout.

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6 minutes ago, WillyM said:

Striking out is bad enough, but I was disappointed to see Stewart just walk away from the plate, even though Zunino had to block the pitch in the dirt and couldn't catch it cleanly.

A lot of players seem to be doing that nowadays.  If you're a superstar and your team is winning big, maybe I can understand wanting to conserve energy.  But Stewart is not a superstar and the score was tied.

For crying out loud, run to first!  Make the catcher throw the ball to the first baseman.  There's always the chance he could make a bad throw and you'll be safe - which you certainly won't be if you just walk back to the dugout.

I wanted to complain about it but thought people are tired of DJ critiques...but you are spot on.  Run you fool run.  

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