What Are the Dodgers Base Runners Doing?

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[robertintexas]

It looks like the runner going into second saw it was Bregman making the play and he saw Pena still at SS, leaving 3rd unoccupied. Then it was go! no, stop! oops!

[unclestinky]

Always touch the plate as quickly as possible with two out. Don't read the play to determine how fast you need to run, just get there ASAP

[leonardshevlin]

He didn't need to sprint anywhere near full-speed (which makes it more likely that he stumbles or misses the plate).
He just had to run rather than jog.

[davidthompson]

I really do appreciate the breakdowns. I’ve been a fan of baseball ever since I could pick one up and throw and catch …probably years before that as I was mesmerized that a human being could do these things and it was televised, in color… Well, actually no it wasn’t in color, but it did come along fairly soon in my life, thanks again Mr Antonelli.

[pagejackson]

Having overrun 2nd base the runner should have continued to 3rd base. The runner on 3rd base could have scored easily.

[bunpeishiratori]

John Kruk talked about this type of play recently during a Phillies game. In a similar situation, he praised the runner for rounding the base like that and explained the logic as such: The runner knows he’s likely to be out at second but knows that if he can somehow beat the throw, the runner from third scores. So rather than slide into second, you simply run through the bag, much like a runner to first does since running hard is faster than sliding into a base. If you beat the throw and are tagged afterwards after overrunning, you accomplished your goal. You got the run to score. This situation here might not have been 100% the same, as the runner may not have assumed he was going to be out.but his mindset might have been just that...run hard through the bag and we score a run. Obviously this only makes sense if there are two outs. Mike Schmidt was broadcasting with Kruk at the time and said he had never considered this in all of his years in baseball but admitted that it made sense.

[cupofsun]

Imagine being a manager looking at 3:49 and thinking: we are about to not score a run here somehow. It would be hard to figure out how. Bregman's whole body is moving away and everyone is more than halfway to base. Second base would be the last place I'd be looking! Subbed to your channel, really love these breakdowns.

[fifiwoof]

Thanks Matt - props to HP ump for the immediate call after the tag.

[rdwells]

That play is also a nightmare scenario for an umpire working solo. I would figure that the odds of a play at the plate would be slim, so I would run out to be near the mound on the third base side to get a good distance and angle on the play at second. And then we end up with a tag play instead of a force, and now I have to give myself whiplash turning back to check to see if the runner scored first.

[nicholasharvey]

The runner on first probably was trying to take away the force out by overrunning the bag and letting the runner on third score. If the runner crossed the plate before the out it would have counted unless the throw to first was in time because it's still a force at first.

[mph]

Lots of comments that Hernandez should have just ran through the bag and kept going. But you have to remember the situation. It was the top of the 7th and the Dodgers down 4-0. Lux is the nine hitter, and Ohtani is on deck. Could Hernandez have beat Peña to 3B? Maybe. Maybe, probably not. But why risk the third out at 3B when you’re down three runs in the 7th, with the top of the lineup and your best hitter due up? Situations matter so much in baseball. BTW, Ohtani led off the 8th with a base hit. Now, this isn’t poker, the next card isn’t guaranteed, but if I’m the Dodgers, I’d sure like to have had Ohtani up representing the tying run.

[angc]

I always tell my Little League kids that they have two speed settings on the base paths; full afterburner and full stop. There is no in between. Run as fast as you can where you need to go then stop.

[oughtssought]

maybe the Dodgers roster is so used to lapping the field in the NL West
that July and August are time for summer vacation on the field?

[timdrahman]

I would also say that, when the runner realized that he was stuck off the bag at second, he should have taken off for third. This would have given the other runner time to score and maybe he himself might have been able to survive a pickle.

[pyrobryan]

Runner probably saw that 3rd base wasn't covered, assumed the throw would go to 1st and if the batter was safe, he could "steal" 3rd.

[CoachRich]

Vargas is maybe thinking the shift isn't on and that's a routine chopper to Short which would be an easy flip to 2 to end it. No excuse though. And Maybe Keke thought he had a shot to continue to 3rd but saw the SS getting halfway to 3rd and hit the brakes. Bad all around

[ronaldgreco]

Is Lux credited with a single in the official scoring?

[jameswallace]

you just did a video like this a few weeks back, i had to double check to see if it was the same game, lololol

[rjstegbauer]

WIth my old eyes, it's impossible for me to see the ball with these full field views. Is there a way to highlight the ball?

[RobFranck]

The second base fielder did nothing either. Also maybe the runner at second thought he could be safer by running through the base, but why then did he try to stop and get back?