- Tie Game
- Bottom of the 6th
- Bases Loaded
- 2 Outs
Angel Berroa.
Who was on the bench?
Jeremy Reed.
On the year Reed is batting .364 as a pinch-hitter. He's 8 for 22 in that role with a .500 slg%.
Moreover, Reed's been up 10 times this year with 2 outs and RISP and he has 4 hits and 3 walks.
In his career, Berroa is 1 for 10 as a pinch hitter....actually he's now 1 for 11 after swinging and meekly grounding out on the first pitch against a guy who had walked 6 batters to that point.
Why on Earth would you pinch hit Angel Berroa over Reed in that situation?
Maybe cause it would have been lefty against lefty....oh wait, Reed is 4 for 7 against lefty's this year and Davis is actually easier to hit from the left side.
It's effin nuts!
2 comments:
Don't get too wrapped up in the numbers when the sample sizes are that small.
I would have left Livan in to hit; I think he had just as much chance of delivering as anybody on the bench.
1 for 10 over your career may be a small sample size, but it's certainly worth noting.
Leaving Livan in to hit would have been a decent option as well given what Berroa is likely to produce.
That said, if Jerry had 100% made up his mind to use a pinch hitter, then clearly he had a better option that Berroa.
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