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27 minutes ago, LookitsPuck said:

At least Colton has the rookie excuse. Santander was the biggest issue to me. Bases juiced, nobody out, and he's up there predictably hacking at balls at his head. The Royals had a report on him and just pounded that report and Tony made zero adjustments when it mattered. 

Correct.  Letter high and shoulder high fastballs.  I mean, I had a report on him too and I was on my couch three beers deep.

It was obvious as to what they were going to do to him....probably obvious to everyone except him, and yet he was still up there swinging at pitches he couldn't hit and easily could have drawn a walk instead.

 

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To me it looked like he was reflexively trying to deflect the ball away. 

But as a hitter you've got to be ready to override that.  Especially on a far-too-inside fastball that you have very little chance of dodging of deflecting off of you anyway. 

At that moment it sucks that there's no good outcome, but trying to deflect it just makes it worse.  If he'd just tried to turn away instead, it probably comes out better not only for the team but also for him (he probably doesn't take that pitch off of the most fragile part of the hand).  

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7 minutes ago, Morgan423 said:

To me it looked like he was reflexively trying to deflect the ball away. 

But as a hitter you've got to be ready to override that.  Especially on a far-too-inside fastball that you have very little chance of dodging of deflecting off of you anyway. 

At that moment it sucks that there's no good outcome, but trying to deflect it just makes it worse.  If he'd just tried to turn away instead, it probably comes out better not only for the team but also for him (he probably doesn't take that pitch off of the most fragile part of the hand).  

Happened once to me in little league.

No one was on base tho and we didn't make the playoffs.

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36 minutes ago, Morgan423 said:

To me it looked like he was reflexively trying to deflect the ball away. 

But as a hitter you've got to be ready to override that.  Especially on a far-too-inside fastball that you have very little chance of dodging of deflecting off of you anyway. 

At that moment it sucks that there's no good outcome, but trying to deflect it just makes it worse.  If he'd just tried to turn away instead, it probably comes out better not only for the team but also for him (he probably doesn't take that pitch off of the most fragile part of the hand).  

He was guess hitting like he did for a lot of the season.

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10 hours ago, TommyPickles said:

I was in the stadium for that. The fifth inning of that game 2 will go down in infamy. It's up there with Ubaldo coming in to pitch the eleventh in that wild card game in Toronto.

That said, I appreciate this quote from Cowser. 

 

He “kinda”let the team down. Honestly, what else is he gonna say? I’m not talented enough to hit the pitch that is thrown to me. I have to totally guess every single time or I can’t hit it.

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