OT: Raise the Jolly Roger: Dull days of July

[td_ice]

was listening on radio, I guess it was bad.

Joe Block went INSANE. He started screaming, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? when Cruz interferes with Reynolds. Then when Cruz threw the ball away again WHAT ARE YOU DOING? It was actually funny. Not the resulting play, but Block's fit. That was louder than any Greg Brown positive emoting call. Probably the loudest I have ever heard any announcer.

Block says that "he should probably be pulled right now".

Shame, radio side said how well Woodford has pitched.

 

[DJ Spinoza]

There's no denying that Cruz has had a bad game/series, at the plate and with the bad throw to first.

But the play in the outfield is on the outfielder 100% of the time. If the outfielder has a read on the baseball and can make an easy catch, then at every level of the sport, that is the outfielder's ball to make the call and waive the infielder off. Reynolds did not do that at all, which was the major catalyst for the error.

 

[Rich Nixon]

When IKF comes in Cruz should just DH for a while.

 

[Goalie_Bob]

Shelton needs to sit him down. He is ridiculously bad in the field and is striking out every at bat.

Last night he was 0-5 with 4 SO and is 0-2 with 2 SO tonight. And he has 5 errors in the series. Just hideous play.

 

[Coastal Kev]

was listening on radio, I guess it was bad.

Joe Block went INSANE. He started screaming, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? when Cruz interferes with Reynolds. Then when Cruz threw the ball away again WHAT ARE YOU DOING? It was actually funny. Not the resulting play, but Block's fit. That was louder than any Greg Brown positive emoting call. Probably the loudest I have ever heard any announcer.

Block says that "he should probably be pulled right now".

Shame, radio side said how well Woodford has pitched.

I hate modern coaching. Not even an asschewing.... then dude strikes out pathetically.

 

[ImporterExporter]

Cruz is just an incredibly stupid baseball player. All world talent. Blunders abound.

 

[Mr Jeff Jimerson]

This one looks to be about over. A sweep would've been nice. Valdez looks like he'll go the rest of the game unhittable and there's no way the Buccos don't give up another run unless they bring in Skenes.

 

[BusinessGoose]

Let Framber get back into a rhythm... Just the worst fundamentals at SS tonight

 

[Hockeygod66]

Cruz with 8 strike outs and 5 errors in the series. Tied for the lead in Errors now with Cincy's Cruz.

 

[Rich Nixon]

Cruz is just an incredibly stupid baseball player. All world talent. Blunders abound.

I just can't get excited about the guy. Too physically gifted to have ever learned how to think.

 

[DJ Spinoza]

Eh, Cruz has basically been fine this season. I think Young is right that the game has sped up on him the past few days, but I've watched every game and I've mostly seen stellar defense and a bat that had been heating up significantly.

Reynolds routinely makes very bad plays -- he is one of the worst defensive outfielders in the entire league, to the point that it's really him who is going to need to take over for Cutch as DH if/when Cutch retires, unless he somehow picks up a 1B glove.

That play in the outfield was Reynolds' fault.

 

[BusinessGoose]

There's no denying that Cruz has had a bad game/series, at the plate and with the bad throw to first.

But the play in the outfield is on the outfielder 100% of the time. If the outfielder has a read on the baseball and can make an easy catch, then at every level of the sport, that is the outfielder's ball to make the call and waive the infielder off. Reynolds did not do that at all, which was the major catalyst for the error.

He did the exact same thing to Suwinski earlier in the year

The pirates seem really bad at communicating

But there's a common denominator on a play that is almost never an infielders to save. You know he was trying to hard to make up for his earlier error.

 

[Empoleon8771]

IKF has had some pretty banger quotes so far after joining the Pirates:

https://x.com/i/web/status/1818765191083180251

 

[DJ Spinoza]

Those are the kind of phenomenal defensive plays that Cruz has been making all season and that he would have airmailed or yanked the throw on in his rookie year.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Woodford has had a terrific game, it's a shame he's knocked with 2 ER because of the defense behind him.

 

[Goalie_Bob]

Game day app says he has 0 ER.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Game day app says he has 0 ER.

Yeah that was a change since I looked at MLB.com last, it was showing him at 2 ER before this inning.

 

[BusinessGoose]

Game day app says he has 0 ER.

Yeah should still be 0...

But STILL, a shame that he's put in such a damn game for it to be even close

 

[bigdaddyk88]

So skenes is pitching on Sunday nice

 

[Ugene Magic]

Cruz is just swinging to swing.

 

[bigdaddyk88]

I think they should give cruz Friday off

 

[DJ Spinoza]

Shelton's pushing the right buttons, hopefully Holderman can lock this down.

Before the game, this kind of nailbiter was about as much as you could hope for, but realistically it should be 4-1 or 4-0. Very frustrating that we are in this spot.

 

[Factorial]

This one looks to be about over. A sweep would've been nice. Valdez looks like he'll go the rest of the game unhittable and there's no way the Buccos don't give up another run unless they bring in Skenes.

 

[Goalie_Bob]

Well then

 

[BusinessGoose]

Well, now we're behind