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Saturday, June 24: Orioles vs Mariners, once again dodging raindrops

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I've been the biggest anti-McKenna guy all year....but hell....Im thrilled for the guy...and US!! We needed it...so glad to be wrong..today...we sure needed this...

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It was. They had no chance to get him. At game I had great view. 

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If you watch the second replay the third base coach inexplicably is watching the play at the plate not the cut off as he is supposed to.  He should have told Urias to go home, I guess he didn't expect Frazier to go but that's his mistake.

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18 minutes ago, justD said:

My feeling was that since he'd started the rundown to allow Henderson to score, it was going to be a third out now.  So if Urias had stayed at 3rd, it wouldn't have mattered, the inning was going to be over.   Frazier kept it up long enough to try to get Urias enough time to get home, but like someone else said, they got smart enough to break their distraction and get the out at home instead.  With two outs, one of them was going to end the inning and it might as well have been someone trying to score?

Yeah once Frazier was clearly in a rundown, it was right for Urias to try.   Urias did nothing wrong.   Make them make the longer throw to the plate and maybe screw it up, or else get distracted and mess up the rundown on Frazier.   Nothing to lose other than the <1% chance Frazier would escape the rundown.

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3 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Yeah once Frazier was clearly in a rundown, it was right for Urias to try.   Urias did nothing wrong.   Make them make the longer throw to the plate and maybe screw it up, or else get distracted and mess up the rundown on Frazier.   Nothing to lose other than the <1% chance Frazier would escape the rundown.

This is true. The problem (if there is one) is with Frazier going for second there before the throw is cut off. You guarantee Henderson scores but he should have scored anyway.

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