With 2 strikes, agreed, you need to protect the plate. Not looking for a fastball and getting it makes you look very foolish. Getting fooled on a breaking ball is understandable but a fastball? Ugh...poor piece of hitting. But again, there's plenty of blame to go around. As a great man once said...it is what it is. 🥺
But it's not really fair to say that about this Tiger team. Take the same amount of players that we have injured off of any team in baseball and they would struggle, maybe even worse. We have an entire pitching staff injured. Starting CF, a possible starting SS, starting 2nd baseman and AAA players filling in. No team has the depth to cover all of those injuries
Are you being serious? Think about trades Harris has made. He doesn't make significant trades, never has. Mize and Skubal are both gonna be free agents, maybe Chris will sign them, that money isn't on Harris, it's above his pay grade.
Riley taking strike 3 was horrible. And so was Hinch's use of his better arms in the BP. And McKinstry getting picked off 2nd base. Inexcusable, all of them. I wouldn't just lay the blame on Riley. Like I said, IMO, it should never even have come down to a bottom of the 9th situation.
Uhhh...I would say we lost that game because our BP couldn't hold a late lead. Riley did take strike 3 but it should never have gotten to the bottom of the 9th. And in extras, Hinch already used his top 3 relievers in a failed bid to hold a lead so he had to bring in an ineffective Holton. Ballgame