Friday, May 22, 2009

Tiny note on a weird play

I don't have much to add about this one, but I don't think I've seen it ever before.

In the fifth inning of tonight's Red Sox-Mets game, Daniel Murphy walked. Angel Pagan bunted, Matsuzaka fielded the ball (Lowell briefly charged but dropped back), and threw to first for the out. Daniel Murphy thought Lowell had left third unguarded, so he took off for third, where Lowell fielded Youkilis' throw and tagged our Murphy.

The scoring is: Pagan ground bunts into sacrifice double play.

The Red Sox so far have zero sacrifice bunts. The Mets are tied for second in the NL with 24. And now the Mets are blazing new trails in giving up outs.

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