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Friday, June 3, 2011
The Problem With Watching College Baseball
Anytime I watch College Baseball, the following situation arises. A runner gets on first base with nobody out. This happened today in the University of Miami vs. Jacksonville game. The second batter in the lineup from Miami got on base. Jim Morris, the coach of Miami, had his third batter try to lay down a bunt. The same third batter had hit 21 homeruns during the season. The announcers were talking about how it's crazy to think that they would make the third batter try and bunt but that it is necessary because of the offensive environment in college baseball. Well despite this offensive environment, the third batter had hit 21 homeruns during the season. Why take the bat out of his hand by forcing him to lay down a bunt? Well after trying to lay down a bunt twice, including one that went foul, there was a wild pitch and the runner was able to advance to second base standing up. It was the 23rd stolen base by that runner. Eventually, I believe the third batter walked. The fourth batter was the next one up and he too, was ordered to bunt despite being a cleanup hitter and even the announcers saying something to the effect of it's been years since this guy was asked to bunt. After trying a couple of times to bunt (which he was unable to do) he got a single so it was bases loaded with nobody out. Instead of trying to get this situation the Miami Coach was willing to sacrifice to either have a runner on second with one out or runners on first and third one out. I say that because the third basemen was in the batters' box waiting to pick up the bunt from the cleanup hitter it would have gotten one of the runners out; it may have been a double play. It would have made more sense to do a fake bunt and swing away or just swing away all together. This strategy always comes up in college baseball games. It always gets on my nerves, I can't stand hearing announcers talk about sacrifices and everything.
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