What a strange occurrence. The last time I saw something like this, I was at a little league baseball game in Central Park. Yesterday against the Mets, Reds' catcher David Ross hit out of order in the lineup. Centerfielder Corey Patterson entered the game in a double switch, which had Ross hitting in the ninth hole and the pitcher moving to the sixth spot. However, Ross came to the plate where the eighth batter, Patterson, should hit, forcing the umpire to call Patterson automatically out for the first out in the inning.
How pissed must Patterson be? His average is down three points in an at bat which he never stepped into the batter's box. Ross eventually singled. Isn't Patterson thinking, "That could've been mine"?
Manager Dusty Baker says that the lineup card in the dugout was correct and that Ross simply got confused. Shouldn't Dusty have been paying attention enough to pull Ross back into the dugout and send Patterson to the plate? He had the same dazed and confused look on his face as he did when he forget to keep Mark Prior's pitch count in every game of the 2003 season. Oh, The Dusty Baker Face.
- D. Spell
1 comment:
There are 9 guys in the line-up. You have 10 fingers. It can't be that hard!
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