Baseball has some very fundamental unwritten rules when it comes to managing. One of them is that when your in a tight game, say trailing by a run or the game is tied, and you have a runner on first base and no outs, you have your batter lay down a bunt to move the runner into scoring position. Anybody who knows anything about baseball knows that. Except Yankees manager Joe Girardi.
In the bottom of the fifth inning in tonight's game, the Yankees had not one, but two runners on base and nobody out. Melky Cabrera was at second, Jose Molina was on at first, and the batter was Derek Jeter.
The no-brainer call of the game was to have Jeter bunt the runners to second and third. But, instead, Girardi helps the Angels out by not making Jeter bunt. Jeter then promptly bounces a ball back to the pitcher, who goes to second for the 1-4-3 double play.
Jeter was shown on replay to be safe at first, and of course Girardi doesn't even come out of the dugout to argue.
That is neither here nor there, as the point is that it should have never came to that. Girardi should have put the bunt on and prevented the double play, which he didn't, so the Yankee rally was killed, and the Angels got out of the inning.
Girardi has made many questionable calls as the Yankees manager, but this was perhaps his biggest blunder.
It just shows, once again, how he is lacking in basic baseball knowledge.
I don't know what it is that the Yankees are so impressed about when it comes to him, but he's far from the second coming of Joe Torre.
He's more like what the newspapers labeled Torre when he was first announced as the Yankees manager.
Girardi truly is the clueless Joe.
In the bottom of the fifth inning in tonight's game, the Yankees had not one, but two runners on base and nobody out. Melky Cabrera was at second, Jose Molina was on at first, and the batter was Derek Jeter.
The no-brainer call of the game was to have Jeter bunt the runners to second and third. But, instead, Girardi helps the Angels out by not making Jeter bunt. Jeter then promptly bounces a ball back to the pitcher, who goes to second for the 1-4-3 double play.
Jeter was shown on replay to be safe at first, and of course Girardi doesn't even come out of the dugout to argue.
That is neither here nor there, as the point is that it should have never came to that. Girardi should have put the bunt on and prevented the double play, which he didn't, so the Yankee rally was killed, and the Angels got out of the inning.
Girardi has made many questionable calls as the Yankees manager, but this was perhaps his biggest blunder.
It just shows, once again, how he is lacking in basic baseball knowledge.
I don't know what it is that the Yankees are so impressed about when it comes to him, but he's far from the second coming of Joe Torre.
He's more like what the newspapers labeled Torre when he was first announced as the Yankees manager.
Girardi truly is the clueless Joe.
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