Originally posted by Fiyah
I have to disagree that it was his fault.
What about the error that Alex Gonzalez made on a sure double play ball to end the inning.
What about the wild pitch that was thrown to move Pierre to 3rd base and walk the batter. If the batter was smart he should have taken off running fast and could have gotten to 2nd base on that ball.
What about Dusty Baker leaving Prior in to pitch more that inning when you could see he was running out of steam on pitch 100. He was up over 120 pitches before he was pulled.
There was 3 fans that reached up for the ball and even if Alou would have caught it, there was a runner on base and he couldn't throw it in the stands cause that runner would have tagged up and scored.
Why did Dusty Baker waste a relief pitcher just to give a batter a intentional walk? the previous pitcher could have thrown 4 balls.
And like someone else said, the Cubs was still up 3-0. I was listening on the radio on my way to work, I stop to go into Walgreens and when I get back in my truck I hear the announcer talking about after 7 the Marlins on up to bat. I was initially thinking he was talking about after 7 innings, come to hear he was talking about after 7 runs scored.
I hate that they are going to blame that man for the lost and it was a total team effort from manager on down that lost that game.
Sorry Fiyah, I gotta disagree with ya on this one. I feel bad for ole' boy just like everyone else that isn't a Cub fan but what you had was plain and simple. If he doesn't interfere with the catch, you have two outs in that inning and one less runner on base. His interference changed the whole complexion of that inning:
*Prior was pitching to one of the toughest hitters in baseball, Luis Castillo. The interference occurred on the 8th pitch Prior had thrown to Castillo. Therefore, you can't blame Prior. Castillo rarely ever strikes out and he stretched the count as far as it needed to go as that interference caused a 9th pitch to have to happen.
*The 9th pitch (wild pitch) caused the runner from second to move to third. Again the 9th pitch shouldn't have even had to happen. It put runners on the corner as Pierre (from Alexandria, LA) advanced to third and Castillo walked.
*The error committed by Gonzalez. Again youre looking at the complexion or situation of the inning changing because of the interference. If there were two outs, would Gonzalez have even made the error? It was obvious, he was thinking double play when he made that error. If it were two outs, like it should have been, Gonzalez could have taken his time and made a throw to first to get Cabrera out and end the inning.
Like I said, I feel bad for ole' boy but it was definitely his fault as to why this debacle occurred regardless of the error or whatever else happened after that. But I'm not mad at him, my Marlins won.
