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This is so hilarious, and the best part is when he made that gesture... based on the play by play and my rough time counting, Wells had only just basically hit second and he was like "WTF are you doing." Like.. it was so obviously dumb even when the ball was still in right field.
Which is of course what everyone at home was also thinking lol.
Reminds me of some of the dubious sends from 3B by the Sox this year. Like... slow runner, hasn't quite hit third, left fielder already has the ball... in Fenway. :)
I mean it works out if third base was accidentally placed 20 feet closer to second. Worth the risk. Never know when the runner is the only person in the stadium to have noticed that little positioning error.
I was in the right field seating area last night. I had almost a perfect line on the throw coming in from the OF. And so I see the throw and start tracking it, and then suddenly I realize Wells has JUST rounded second and his back is now to me, and it's just an instant feeling of "oh no fucking way is he really doing this". Like, I didn't bother tracking Wells because that was the most obvious "stand up 2-base hit" situation on the planet. If anything, I was noticing Giancarlo moving onto the field to PH for McMahon and then suddenly he wasn't gonna be hitting anymore that inning.
This view inside the booth is a great shot. We've got a producer or whatever handing off a couple note cards, the play call, Tim throwing his hands up and glasses down in disbelief and the crew being told to wrap it up to go to commercial
I was that card-hander at a basketball game once. Those are the scripts for the ad/promo reads that happen when a broadcast comes back from a commercial break.
i love seeing inside of the booth. I know a lot of broadcasters also keep score to refer but i never know what they have if its paper and pencil notes or ipads
I mean maybe not a coaching execution issue in the moment, but the coaching staff is responsible for the base running training/prep, and the culture that allows a player to blast through a stop sign in the most critical moment of their season.
He didn't blast through it though, he straight up didn't look. Personally I think this one moment was just a player being overzealous thinking they need to do something extra when you team is getting dominated. I agree that the coaching has been a constant issue for the team though.
Not to absolve Wells of being a dumbass cause that was totally boneheaded but if the players don’t trust the coaches that absolutely could be a coaching issue.
They failed with the basics last year too, Austin Wells had bases loaded with 2 out in game 4 vs the blue jays and he swung at the first pitch he saw and it was a line out
I like the reaction of the fans in the bottom left. Clearly a yankee fan stands up on the crack of the bat with hands up, then crashes down with his head in his hands as the rest of the crowd around him explodes to their feet, when Wells is gunned down at third.
I mean, on the one hand, yes, but on the other there’s also just much less relative advantage to being on third with two outs, so it’s an even more boneheaded move to take that risk and get caught.
Mark Vientos did something like this where he ran through the stop sign and the coach turns around to watch him go for it at home with a smirk on his face. He's the slowest guy on the team and bottom tier among mlb players.
It was at the beginning of the season though not the ALDS.
That is priceless! I’m so glad to see those reactions from Tim and the other announcers in the booth. Would love to see the same from the TV guys. That was one of, if not the dumbest play I have seen a player make in the playoffs.
Ditto. I was actively rooting against the Yankees, but that's not how you want it to go. They should lose a good baseball game. That's wasn't good baseball.
Newish baseball fan here, got a question about the rules on this play.
So Wells got thrown out at 3rd when everyone thought he should have stayed on 2nd. That would have been a double and ended the no-hitter. But it feels like the rule should be that since he was thrown out, the whole sequence wouldn't count as a hit and the no-hitter would still be preserved. Why is him going to 3rd and getting thrown out not treated the same as if he was thrown out? I'm guessing officially, it counts as him hitting a double?
If he had gotten thrown out at 2nd, does he get credited for a single and the pitcher still loses their no-hitter? Basically as long as he crosses first base safely, the no hitter is gone?
Yes, long as you get to first it counts as a hit. Pretty sure the rules are like that for the sake of situations where a run scores on a play where somebody also gets the last out of an inning.
Bro was lumbering before he even touched second base. You might not score from second, but you definitely won't score when the third baseman gets the ball so early that he could take a coffee break before tagging you out.
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