10/16/2024
Major league baseball. We want that to be a place where kids can learn some things. Well last nights game with the Yankees and Guardians was not the place to do it, at least in one inning. Rizzo reads a ball in the dirt incorrectly when in scoring position at 2nd. He gets caught in a run down. Then the Guardians 3rd baseman does not run him back to make the out toward the base he started at, but stood in his place and immediately threw the ball to 2nd. No one moved toward the runner, not the 2nd baseman, not the 3rd baseman. Rizzo then turned and ran toward 3rd where the 3rd baseman stayed by the base in the base path and waited for the throw. Luckily for them Rizzo both gave up and stayed in a path that the throw could make it to 3rd. I do not want the players at any age group I coach to emulate this.