What's the Move?

[Frayed Knot]

With no outs?!? ... Hell no!! - particularly on a ball in the corner where it'll be a shorter throw/relay.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Amen.

So I get really nervous --- remember my inability to score the tying run from third with no outs earlier in this thread --- even with the heart of the order coming up. I pinch-run Amos Otis (rated Excellent as a runner) for Boswell. If I tie it up and don't win it, I still have infielders Collins and Weis and Pfiel on the bench. But I feel like I'm being a real wimp, playing for the tie at home.

The tying and winning runs on, they want little to do with Jones '69, and they pitch around him. I let him swing the bat, but he doesn't see anything he likes, and walks on four pitches.

Did somebody say pinch-hit for Shamsky? Hell no! Are you a plant from his ex-wife? He's a .300 hitter with power and my cleanup hitter. He, too, walks, bringing home the tying run, the easiest act of heroism in Amos Otis' career.

Up steps Agee, he rips the third pitch through the hole on the left side, and pandemonium begins.

[MFS62]

Way to go!
Edgy - our own John McGraw.

Later