00:00All right, so here we are in the 10th inning.
00:03PCA comes to the plate.
00:05You ghost runner, Manfred Mann, whatever you want to call it, Carson Kelly's at second base.
00:10Right.
00:11And Hagan Smith answers the game.
00:13That's a choice by Will Venable.
00:17PCA.
00:18The Sox have run out of pitching, in case you're wondering who's going to pitch today.
00:23Brazabon, right?
00:24Was Brazabon there?
00:26You know, he was rough the last couple times.
00:30I'm just telling you, that was a strange one.
00:34But let me finish the premise because I want to see if you agree or disagree.
00:36Because I think it's fair to second guess.
00:38I think you're going to say walk him.
00:40The problem is the PCA gets on base and he can wreak havoc.
00:44I know he's not on second base.
00:47You got your Manfred Mann there.
00:49You've got one guy in the lineup that you circle that can't beat you.
00:53Well, but he's also the one guy that can score from first.
00:58Not that that would have mattered.
00:59It wouldn't have mattered.
01:00That run doesn't matter.
01:01That run doesn't matter.
01:02It's a tie game.
01:03The guy in second matters.
01:05You have to walk him there.
01:06The force exists if you walk him.
01:08And you bring in Hagan Smith.
01:09He's thinking, well, he's that lefty-unlefty.
01:11You could have brought in a right-hander.
01:13And then you walk him to face Suzuki.
01:15And then Suzuki doesn't pose as big of a threat against a right-hander, theoretically.
01:19I know Say has been hot as well.
01:21And that was what Craig Council said when asked about it.
01:23And that was the explanation for Will Venable.
01:26And you respect these guys because these teams are where they are because of the managers.
01:31But last night was a fair second guess.
01:33Was that the first run Hagan Smith has allowed?
01:36First hit, I think.
01:37Yeah.
01:37So, I mean, I don't know what he was thinking.
01:39But obviously it was the wrong move.
01:42Obviously.
01:43I just don't understand the logic of pitching to the MVP.
01:47You know, maybe the problem is that Sayah also homered earlier in the game.
01:54So maybe if you had walked PCA, maybe Sayah is the guy with the walk-off instead of PCA.
02:01I think you could live with yourself a little better.
02:03I think you're right.
02:04Because the one guy that couldn't beat you, beat you.
02:06Yeah.
02:07And he did it because you dared him to.
02:09And he took the dare.
02:10Yeah.
02:11And he went deep.
02:12Yeah.
02:12Cubs win, Cubs win.
02:13Yeah.
02:14And I just feel like.
02:15I mean, he's the home run hitter on that team.
02:17Would you put it this way?
02:18And this is not an exaggeration.
02:21Would you have pitched to Shohei Otani in that situation?
02:25Or would you put him on first base?
02:28Four fingers, right, Dustin?
02:29Yeah.
02:30Four fingers.
02:31Yeah.
02:31I think the argument would be that you put anyone on first base when you got a man.
02:37I don't know what the thinking was there, but I thought for sure you don't have to throw
02:42the pitches anymore.
02:43It's not like there's some psychological block.
02:46You just tell the guy to go to first base.
02:48Just go to first.
02:49But that was, you know, you knew, well, you knew when they didn't score that that was going
02:55to be bad, that that was going to end.
02:57It wasn't like, I know PCA came into the game three for his last 28, so maybe you thought
03:02you could catch him in the midst of a funk.
03:04Yeah.
03:04But he had three hits up to that point.
03:06Right.
03:06I mean, there's no defense.
03:08No, no.
03:09There's no defense.
03:10No.
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