03-25-2019, 12:18 AM
A couple of edits, now that I've rewatched.
Misremembered the sequence in the seventh - it was single to left, walk to Burks, and then what I should've posted as weird play 4 of the inning. Howell bounces a ball up the middle right toward the shortstop breaking to cover second base. Might have been an easy double-play ball. But the 2B breaks in front of the bag and deflects it away, toward the shortstop hole. No one advanced, but that was the break that loaded the bases.
The other one was to give props to Young, who worked a 1-2 count into a walk, including not biting on a VERY close 2-2 pitch.
And yes, looking back at the ump's blown call, I don't know what the heck he was seeing. The catcher's arm was well out of his line of vision to the left, and he appeared to be staring straight at Howell's hand as it slapped the plate.
VG
Misremembered the sequence in the seventh - it was single to left, walk to Burks, and then what I should've posted as weird play 4 of the inning. Howell bounces a ball up the middle right toward the shortstop breaking to cover second base. Might have been an easy double-play ball. But the 2B breaks in front of the bag and deflects it away, toward the shortstop hole. No one advanced, but that was the break that loaded the bases.
The other one was to give props to Young, who worked a 1-2 count into a walk, including not biting on a VERY close 2-2 pitch.
And yes, looking back at the ump's blown call, I don't know what the heck he was seeing. The catcher's arm was well out of his line of vision to the left, and he appeared to be staring straight at Howell's hand as it slapped the plate.
VG