Game Day Zone: September 2008 Game Day Zone

Kevin (from Fairfax)
I am an avid baseball fan. I love the intracacies of the game. Taking an extra base, hitting the cutoff man, moving the runner along. But it steams me to no end when a pitcher gets up and fails to lay down a sacrifice bunt. I understand that these guys - as Washington Nationals starting pitcher Tim Redding, who is a decent bunter, said during a Q&A for Nats fans recently - are paid to pitch, not to hit. But during batting practice, the pitchers do work on bunting. And are expected to do that during games. So how can a cleanup hitter like David Ortiz lay one down during a Red Sox-Mariners' game last night. A beauty too. Now I do understand the shift was on, and he may have been trying for a surprise bunt single. But it was a better looking bunt than most pitchers do. And I bet Big Papi doesn't really practice too many bunts during BP. And he received a standing ovation from not only the Red Sox fans, but his teammates as he came back to the dugout. And deservedly so.

by: Game Day Zone

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