That Kind of Luxe Just Ain’t For Us
By Should the Mariners ever get to a World Series, I hope it’s not against Madison Bumgarner and Bruce Bochy. (Pedro against Cleveland in 1999 is the analogy that came to mind while it was happening, and still seems appropriate.) Congrats to the Giants.
My initial reaction, in absence of a decent replay, was that Gordon should have tried to score, particularly given that Perez was pretty much drawing dead (I’m surprised he laid off even 2 of the relentless parade of balls Bumgarner smartly threw him.) But I was wrong; he made the right play. I also agree with Jeer9 that the positioning of Juan Perez that allowed him to get what looked like a sure base hit off Aoki’s bat was an underrated huge play in the game.