Edgy MD wrote: Can anybody make sense of Kirk Gibsons walkophilia in the ninth? Assuming you meant in the 13th inning, I didn't think it was all that out of whack. * The danger, of course, is that he was putting the winning run on when he walked Buck and "The Book" considers that a no-no. On the other hand he did it to get to a pitcher batting (no NYM options) who, if he swung away, was a GiDP candidate or, if he bunted, the 2nd out. * IW-ing Q to get to Brown is a little more suspect in that it brought the game-tying walk into play. But it also gave Collmenter a RHB to face instead of a LHB, a newbie instead of a vet, and worked around the night's hot batter for one recently in the game. Am certainly not claiming it was the only path to choose, but it was not without its reasoning.