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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
I was thinking that as the game went along today. They’d only scored one run but it just felt different. It wasn’t the “meh” brand of baseball we are use to seeing for the last 2 years. They were trying to make something happen. They were hustling in the outfield to make plays. Even when Mikolas made his bonehead play there was some player telling him very loudly no no no.
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I actually got a 'well, these games happen' vibe from the game.
I expected an L but not because they were sleepwalking as they had in the past. It just felt like one of those games that happen sometimes where you just cannot get the big hit to string a rally together. Even in the 9th with Garcia on 1b and Bader lugging his 0-3 w/ 3 Ks to the dish against a tough righty, I felt the same way.
And then somehow he Davis gets in his kitchen, Bader doesn't actually bring his hands in to stay on the ball, he just doesn't bring the head through and flares a single out into RF. I honestly don't think he did that on purpose - if he could do that, he'd have shown it by now. But sometimes you just have to get lucky and low and behold they did.
And once they finally got that bit of lucky contact, they pressed the advantage. It's nice to see...
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