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Lou Piniella likes bunting with 2 on and no outs with the lead late in games..

 

Is there something wrong with that? I dont have a problem adding more runs to your lead.

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Lou Piniella likes bunting with 2 on and no outs with the lead late in games..

 

Is there something wrong with that? I dont have a problem adding more runs to your lead.

 

Why give away an out? You're winning the game. You're not trying to play for one or two runs. Why not just let the guy hit? Plus you run the risk of a poor bunt and the runner getting thrown out at third and then you still have runners on first and second but with one out. Best case scenario when you bunt in that situation is ending up with second and third with one out. The best case if you hit away is the bases are cleared and there are still no outs.

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Lou Piniella likes bunting with 2 on and no outs with the lead late in games..

 

Is there something wrong with that? I dont have a problem adding more runs to your lead.

 

Why give away an out? You're winning the game. You're not trying to play for one or two runs. Why not just let the guy hit? Plus you run the risk of a poor bunt and the runner getting thrown out at third and then you still have runners on first and second but with one out. Best case scenario when you bunt in that situation is ending up with second and third with one out. The best case if you hit away is the bases are cleared and there are still no outs.

 

I would bet that teams would misplay a bunt just as often as they would get the lead runner on a bunt-people misplay bunts all the time. I'm not sure if that would make it right to bunt (although when leading late, 1 to 2 runs becomes more important relatively than they are normally, especially when a team is up by only 1 or 2), but it is something that happens pretty often.

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Giving up outs is usually not a good idea. It's best to let the pitcher have to get out of the jam rather than helping him by giving away an out.

 

Oh, I'm not a fan of bunting normally either. Late and up or late and tied make it a little bit better I think because the big inning is not quite as important as that point as early in the game. Still though, it would have to be a hitter who knew how to put down a bunt and who was not a very good hitter otherwise.

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