Thursday, September 30, 2004
Rightfield Is Not Paradise
Seems to me our problem all along was that Giants rightfielders had trouble catching fly balls.
Now, the problem is catching them when you absolutely should not catch them!
If Dustan Mohr doesn't catch the foul fly ball last night, it simply becomes strike two, the Padres have no chance to tag up and score, Mohr can still play, and the Giants can still stay in the game.
As it was, he caught the ball in foul ground near the bullpen pitcher's mound, tripped and fell, tweaked his knee, and as he lay there moaning and wailing, forget Kerry Robinson, a turtle could have scored from third base.
Now, the problem is catching them when you absolutely should not catch them!
If Dustan Mohr doesn't catch the foul fly ball last night, it simply becomes strike two, the Padres have no chance to tag up and score, Mohr can still play, and the Giants can still stay in the game.
As it was, he caught the ball in foul ground near the bullpen pitcher's mound, tripped and fell, tweaked his knee, and as he lay there moaning and wailing, forget Kerry Robinson, a turtle could have scored from third base.
I was wondering to myself in a moments after the game why the Giants sitting in the bullpen weren't screaming at Mohr to not catch the ball, but apparently they were. So there were two physical errors (ones actually recorded as E's in the scorebook), one giant mental error, and precisely zero hits in the Padres' tenth-inning, game-winning rally this ballgame, sending San Francisco a half-game behind Houston in the wild-card race.
Unacceptable stuff.
