Bring me the hands of Mike Napoli! June 4, 2008
Posted by Brad in commentary, photos.Tags: ichiro, john mclaren, jose lopez, miguel cairo, mike napoli, sam perlozzo, yuniesky betancourt
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That crumpled corpse in white is Yuniesky Betancourt. Here’s a close-up:
Ouch. I hope Yuni’s discarded batting helmet took the brunt of that blow.
I could go off on Mike Napoli like I did Brandon Inge (Napoli’s got awesome power, yet he’s not strong enough to wrest the full-time catching job away from Jeff Mathis!) but there’s no point. Yuni shouldn’t have gone home on this play. He took off on a pitch Ichiro singled to center, and kept running even though the ball was fielded cleanly and nowhere near the gap. The M’s were only down by one run, and the next batter was Jose Lopez, who has torched the Angels this week. If Miguel Cairo was hitting second, it’d make a bit more sense. In this situation, it’s inexcusable. I hope after John McLaren finished his press conference today (link contained bleeped f words) he chewed out third base coach Sam Perlozzo.


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