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Ohiogal

(34,631 posts) Mon Apr 2, 2018, 07:45 AM Apr 2018

Bunting to beat the shift

On Sunday, Chance Sisco of the Baltimore Orioles dropped down a bunt to beat the shift vs. the Minnesota Twins with his team down seven runs in the bottom of the ninth, and the Twins were pretty darn angry about it, saying that the Orioles shouldn't have bunted in that situation. Anyone agree?

Personally, I think that the bunt was fine. You want to do anything you can to start a rally or keep your team in the game. If the Twins were claiming it is "disrespectful of the game", then why did they still even have the shift on?

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Bunting to beat the shift (Original Post) Ohiogal Apr 2018 OP

I don't see how they could be mad about that. Ohiya Apr 2018 #1

I just read Ohiogal Apr 2018 #2

It is legal.........end of story Angry Dragon Apr 2018 #3

Why were they in a shift... The Polack MSgt Apr 2018 #4

Agreed - PAMod Apr 2018 #7

baseball is baseball, complaining about this is pretty unbaseball-like beachbum bob Apr 2018 #5

I think the shift itself is disrespectful of the game. JayhawkSD Apr 2018 #6

I get the strategy. Still don't like the shift. kairos12 May 2018 #8

Ohiya

(2,432 posts)

1. I don't see how they could be mad about that.

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Mon Apr 2, 2018, 07:52 AM

Apr 2018

In baseball the game is not over until it is over. Unlike games governed by a clock!

Ohiogal

(34,631 posts)

2. I just read

Reply to Ohiya (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 2, 2018, 07:59 AM

Apr 2018

that MLB wants to address those never-ending extra inning games, too. Something about either shortening them to x number of innings and then if it's still tied, postponing them to be made up later .... or (this is really stupid if you ask me) starting the inning for each team with a man on second. I will try and find a link.

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

3. It is legal.........end of story

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Mon Apr 2, 2018, 08:12 AM

Apr 2018

The Polack MSgt

(13,425 posts)

4. Why were they in a shift...

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Mon Apr 2, 2018, 08:21 AM

Apr 2018

Up by 7 in the 9th?

I'd be pissed off if I was an Oriole.

Always bunt on the shift against the Twins from now on.

PAMod

(933 posts)

7. Agreed -

Reply to The Polack MSgt (Reply #4)

Mon Apr 30, 2018, 07:14 AM

Apr 2018

If the game is close enough for the shift, it's close enough for the obvious foil to the shift.

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)

5. baseball is baseball, complaining about this is pretty unbaseball-like

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Mon Apr 2, 2018, 08:37 AM

Apr 2018

I would have all my hitters bunt against the shift until they don't shift.

JayhawkSD

(3,163 posts)

6. I think the shift itself is disrespectful of the game.

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Mon Apr 2, 2018, 09:39 AM

Apr 2018

Anything you can do to defeat, or better yet make it look ridiculous, is fair game.

It's called "being hoist on your own petard" or, in modern language, "blown up by your own bomb."

kairos12

(13,248 posts)

8. I get the strategy. Still don't like the shift.

Reply to Ohiogal (Original post)

Wed May 2, 2018, 05:49 PM

May 2018

Shifting players around turning the SS into a short right fielder makes the infield look like a beer league softball game. I guess you could bunt all day along to beat it, but who is paying top dollar to see power hitters bunt all day long?

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