![]() ![]() It would have been the right move if he was safe even 30 percent of the time.īetween 19 - I’m using this period because it better approximates baseball’s current run-scoring environment than the offensive bubble of the 1990s and aughts - a runner scored from third base with two outs about 27 percent of the time, according to the tables at. Here’s what I know: Gordon should have tried to score even if he was a heavy underdog to make it. It seemed to take an eternity - it was actually just 13 seconds - but I was surprised that Gordon wasn’t rounding third base by the time the TV cameras returned to the infield. But mostly I’m referring to that penultimate play: When Gordon hit what was officially scored as a single and wound up on third base because of defensive miscues by San Francisco Giants outfielders Gregor Blanco and Juan Perez. Partly because it involved the Kansas City Royals, who were making their first World Series appearance since 1985. Game 7 will leave us with that sense of what might have been. It would have been one hell of a moment: Gordon, 220 pounds, who looks like he could have been a strong safety at the University of Nebraska, bearing down on Buster Posey, the catcher whose season-ending injury in 2011 helped inspire baseball’s home-plate collisions rule. I’m sure there will be Zapruder-film-type breakdowns, and I’ll look forward to seeing them. ![]() Alex Gordon might have scored, particularly if he’d been in the mindset to do so all along. ![]()
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