There is a view from behind the fielder into home plate....he didn't charge the ball, throw was actually good to the cutoff man...call at home looks safe...catcher has to catch the ball and turn to tag Tucker...something he does not do.
Astros finally get more than 13 games over .500, thrilling finish. He's ill-favored (that's literally what his name means). Well, except with Dusty.
Possibly. But it's a moot point, because the ump called him safe. And as I said in my previous post, that was the common sense call by the ump based on how much Tucker beat the tag by. I think if you ran that scenario multiple times, the runner's probably safe the vast majority of the time.
Meyers and Pena have become helpless at the plate again. I guess that is what happens when you have slightly below average hitters at the most important fielding positions which is completely normal. I was just spoiled with Springer, Correa and playoff Pena.
Crossing my fingers we see Yordan back in the line-up. The series sweep and the division is right there.
Honestly, watching it again, I think the toe actually hit the front of the bag which is what caused it to bump up. It’s on YouTube in slow mo. Obviously I’m biased, but I really think it hit front of the plate. Also, if it weren’t for that absolutely horrendous strike call on ball 4 to Abreu, it would have been bases loaded and no outs and Tucker would have scored standing…
I mean that bottom one clearly looks like the toe hit the plate before bouncing up.. not sure where the missed call was..
That really wasn’t his choice, as Dubon has been made a starter due to injury. He was sitting McCormick for no reason, knowing he was playing leaser players instead. So, I would say that he cost the team some wins there and Dubon didnt really make up for that.
Dubon is only a viable player this year because Dusty repeatedly played him last year when people b****ed about it endlessly. Chas was playing every day before he got hurt (10 of the 11 games pre-injury) and has basically every day in July. The time he was playing 2-of-3 days was the 6 weeks or so after his back injury - which Dusty says he wasn't able to play everyday, for whatever that is or isn't worth.
