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Team USA's 10th inning strategy: Put two fast runners on, and have the leadoff hitter sac bunt, putting 2-3-4 up with runners on 2nd and 3rd with 1 out. Canada walks the next hitter intentionally, and the 3 hitter hits a 2-run double to give the US a 6-4 lead in the 10th. Two more harmless outs and now Canada is up in the 10th with 2 on and 0 out.
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Pan-Am gold medal game between USA and Canada tied after 9 innings, and the extra inning rules are weird: Each team starts the inning with whichever runners they want on 1st and 2nd with 0 outs, and can send any batter in the lineup up and start the batting order there.
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How Mexico isn't winning 3-0 is beyond me.
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There are huge Mexico fan bases in many urban areas. Chicago in particular, probably more Mexico fans than US fans.
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I will say I didn't expect this Cubs offense to be near the bottom of the league in slugging this season. They take walks well, but lots of strikeouts with little power to show for it is a bit concerning. -
Are you trying to say that if posters on this board weren't so negative the CUBS would produce better ??? Mein Gott im Himmell !!! No, productive conversation, not baseball.
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Not much of a hitters game these days, especially when you're the mets.
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I like James Russell, but guy's either got to get more swings and misses in general, or he needs to get the walk rate down.
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Now what's all this drivel about anticipating the negative outcome ?? I'm just saying with first base open and Castro behind him being generally less of an XBH threat, I'd expect they pitch around Coughlan...they didn't and the Cubs scored. More to the point, this team has made 6 XBH in their last 6 games. I can't imagine why the other teams aren't challenging every hitter, every AB. When the norm is a negative outcome, you tend to expect a negative outcome. The point is this...In this run environment, even the best hitters have a negative outcome 3 out of 5 times at the plate, and an average hitter has a negative outcome more than 2 of 3 times. So sure, you can expect a negative outcome and be right more often than not, but it's not going to lead to anything productive. When there's a string of bashing posts about nearly every Cub every time to the plate, I start to wonder if anyone in the thread is actually still rooting for the team to do well.
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He got a fastball on the inner half... .... and he sure knew what to do with it, eh? Well, he flew out to center, which suggests he was a bit behind it on the swing but tried to pull it. Taking that pitch to right field would have been a mistake.
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Now what's all this drivel about anticipating the negative outcome ?? I'm just saying with first base open and Castro behind him being generally less of an XBH threat, I'd expect they pitch around Coughlan...they didn't and the Cubs scored.
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He got a fastball on the inner half...
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And that's why. Too much of the plate for Vizcaino and it's 4-0.
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I'd be surprised if Coughlan gets a pitch to hit here.
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Where has there been overreacting in this thread? It's all in anticipating the negative outcome in every situation, really.
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The only thing that would make some of you not overreact would be a 35-0 perfect game where every player hits 2 HRs.
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Panama into the semis without a single victory.
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Weird thought...if Alcantara was in center, Baez were at 3rd, and Bryant was in LF, Rizzo would be the oldest player in the lineup.
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Well that was an insane ending. T&T 4, Mexico 4, T&T wins the group, so Costa Rica-Mexico in the quarters.
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Mexico went up 2-0 on T&T in the 51st minute. It's now the 68th minute and it's 3-2 T&T.
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And the USMNT gets a tired, shorthanded Cuba in the quarters with the Haiti Jamaica winner in the semis.
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Jamaica takes the lead 1-0 over El Salvador in the 71st minute. If the score holds, Jamaica wins group B and Panama advances.
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Honduras is out, Haiti advances unless Panama wins and Guatemala wins by 3.
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Huh, two yellows for the same player a minute apart. Don't see that too often.
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Costa Rica seems to be trying their best not to win group B.
