***Official 2025 STL Cardinals Thread ***

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by VAChief

I'm not sure what Donovan was thinking. You have to have better situational awareness there including knowing who is running at third. Maybe you go home with Yadi running, but otherwise you have to take the out. The only time you go home is if it is a walkoff situation.

They didn't even have the infield in. They were set up for DP depth and if the ball isn't hit hard enough to turn 2 then it OBVIOUSLY isn't hit hard enough to come home with it at that point if for no other reason than by virtue of where you were positioned defensively.

If you had the IF in there (for some strange reason) then sure - come home with it. But the defensive alignment wasn't even set to come home with that ball.

You don't have to be situationally brilliant -- just play the damn cards as they lay.

(Maybe don't trade away your elite defensive 2b for an aging SP and this kind of stuff won't happen....)

I like Donovan a lot but that was completely braindead.