Baseball, Marbut, and Bunting

[Coug-Vandal]

No one talks about baseball here and it isn't even obvious where one is supposed to post a baseball comment.
Anyway, I do so today just because Marbut's obsession with bunting led me to my boiling point. A great afternoon for baseball and a 0-0 game going into the bottom of the 9th. With the Coug's leadoff hitter on Sagdal comes up. He is our leading hitter. Ariz puts on the wheel play with the Ist and 3rd baseman charging and the 2nd baseman breaking for Ist. Any ground ball to the right side is a hit. Nevertheless Marbut has Sagdal bunting. He gets it down--not really a bad bunt--but the Ist baseman picks it up and gets the force at 2nd. So Marbut has now wasted his best hitter on a equally wasted out. To top things off the Cougs lose the game on a dropped fly ball with 2 outs in the 11th and then leave the bases loaded in the bottom of the 11th. Oh well it was better than watching the Mariners get swept by Houston.

 

[cr8zyncalif]

That dropped ball was a classic young kid mistake. Run all that way from CF, get there in time, then take your eyes off the ball just before it gets to your glove. I think we are playing heavy/starting 6 freshmen this year. It has shown. The good news is the team as a whole has gotten better as the season has progressed, as you would hope to see from a super young team.

 

[wsucoug51]

Are you implying that once Arizona put on the wheel play (which is generally in reaction to seeing a batter square to bunt), Marbut should have called off the bunt? How slow was their pitcher throwing?