| To Bean or not to Bean |
By Sally Haase
September 17, 2010
CHICAGO, IL-- The Minnesota Twins completed a three game series
sweep of the Chicago White Sox Thursday night, extending the teams lead
to nine games and lowering the magic number to eight. None of the games
were instant classics as I had predicted in my previous article, but Thursday’
s game had some interesting moments. In the White Sox half of the first
inning, Twins pitcher Carl Pavano grazed White Sox first baseman Paul
Konerko in the face with a pitch, Konerko’s nose bled and lip swelled up but
he refused to come out of the game. Looking at replays, it was defiantly an
accident, Konerko has not done anything to the Twins to get thrown at and
Pavano is a veteran of the game and knows if you throw at someone, you
do not throw at the head. Plus, pitching inside is part of the game of
baseball. At the top of the next inning, White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle felt
the need to retaliate and hit Twins first baseman Michael Cuddyer on the
first pitch of his at-bat. Home plate umpire Jerry Crawford issued warnings
to both benches and the incident was over.
It was obvious that the plunking was not intentional, but Buehrle found it
necessary to stand up for his teammate and there is nothing wrong with that,
but putting Cuddyer on first base by throwing at him led to a three run inning
for the Twins. There is no way of knowing what would have happened if
Buehrle just pitched to Cuddyer, if he makes an out the White Sox avoid a
big inning. “Walks will haunt” is a phrase used everywhere around baseball,
if you give a batter a base, odds are that the batter will end up scoring a run,
walks will haunt and hit batters will haunt too.
September 17, 2010
CHICAGO, IL-- The Minnesota Twins completed a three game series
sweep of the Chicago White Sox Thursday night, extending the teams lead
to nine games and lowering the magic number to eight. None of the games
were instant classics as I had predicted in my previous article, but Thursday’
s game had some interesting moments. In the White Sox half of the first
inning, Twins pitcher Carl Pavano grazed White Sox first baseman Paul
Konerko in the face with a pitch, Konerko’s nose bled and lip swelled up but
he refused to come out of the game. Looking at replays, it was defiantly an
accident, Konerko has not done anything to the Twins to get thrown at and
Pavano is a veteran of the game and knows if you throw at someone, you
do not throw at the head. Plus, pitching inside is part of the game of
baseball. At the top of the next inning, White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle felt
the need to retaliate and hit Twins first baseman Michael Cuddyer on the
first pitch of his at-bat. Home plate umpire Jerry Crawford issued warnings
to both benches and the incident was over.
It was obvious that the plunking was not intentional, but Buehrle found it
necessary to stand up for his teammate and there is nothing wrong with that,
but putting Cuddyer on first base by throwing at him led to a three run inning
for the Twins. There is no way of knowing what would have happened if
Buehrle just pitched to Cuddyer, if he makes an out the White Sox avoid a
big inning. “Walks will haunt” is a phrase used everywhere around baseball,
if you give a batter a base, odds are that the batter will end up scoring a run,
walks will haunt and hit batters will haunt too.
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