Who's to say he throws the same careless pitch without the caught stealing? Can't presume everything.
Exactly -- he probably approaches that very differently if he's pitching out of the stretch. You've got the league leader in steals with no outs, and a pitcher with a slow delivery. He happened to throw the easiest possible pitch to handle, and Perez made a perfect throw. It happens.
Altuve and Springer have certainly had a much better start to their playoff careers than Bagwell/Biggio... then again, no Glavine/Maddux/Smoltz/Kevin Millwood/Kevin Brown/Sterling Hitchcock helps.
Would have been great if that was a two run homer but it was still huge to get a run there. Chris Young was too comfortable out there.
In no way was that a bad time to run on Young. He's terrible at controlling the running game and Altuve is pretty good at the stolen base thing. Add in that said pitcher is dominating and you'd be crazy not to run there. Just bad luck, good pitch selection, it happens.
It was a good decision as Young is easy to steal the problem was that the pitch was high and was as good as a pitch out
Now you know what Cardinals fans were like in 2004/05 with Brandon Backe. "How can we not hit this guy?!?!?"
