GDT Game 3/3 Jays @ Rays 7:10 PM EST

[Abomination]

Pitch looked 2 or 3 inches inside when it crossed the plate

 

[Orgfiller]

Danny Jansen has a cannon.

[Abomination]

Rays trying to hand us a run here. Please accept it!

[Orgfiller]

Kratz you have one job bro.

[Ex Player]

Tie game, baby

[Daniel Labude]

Up and in to a right is almost never called unless it's from a LHP lmao. BS as usual

[Orgfiller]

I feel like as a lefty against Alvarado your best bet is to lay off everything and hope that he beats himself. The 2-seamer at 98-100 is simply unhittable if it starts out anywhere near the middle of the plate.

[gruber92]

Here comes the bunt. it's Grichuk though so i guess its ok.

[Orgfiller]

Here comes the bunt. it's Grichuk though so i guess its ok.

 

Montoyo has never bunted with a good hitter.

[Orgfiller]

Good job Randal.

[gruber92]

Montoyo has never bunted with a good hitter.

 

Lol

[tbad]

I'll be extremely surprised if we score more than 1 run with the bases loaded and no outs.

[tbad]

Joke team

[Omar]

s***....I hate Tampa.

[Orgfiller]

The Rays with a shift that works to perfection but you'll never see Buck and Pat acknowledge that, now if someone hits a dribbler that barely squeaks by against the shift you'll hear about it non-stop for the duration of the inning.

[Orgfiller]

Drury with a 108 mph rocket but of course it's hit right to Kiermaier, what else is now at the Trop.

 

.760 xBA

[Terminator]

Drury's bat actually ran into the ball pretty well there but of course it's right at someone

[gruber92]

Hitters in that Galvis situation need to start making adjustments for the betterment of the team. I'm sorry but you need to really make a conscious effort in going the other way.

[Orgfiller]

Hitters in that Galvis situation need to start making adjustments for the betterment of the team. I'm sorry but you need to really make a conscious effort in going the other way.

 

If it was so easy to consistently beat the shift and go against your regular pull tendencies why doesn't everyone do it? It's not just power hitters who are shifted against these days, Freddy Galvis just simply isn't a good enough hitter to make that adjustment or Tampa Bay wouldn't have shifted in the first place.

[Orgfiller]

That's a brutal call wow. Kratz definitely stole that pitch.

[Barkerfan23]

Wow finally a defensive play not made on Vladdy

I'm surprised he didnt make it

[DigitalRock]

Vlad finally

[Orgfiller]

My god that was ridiculous, I thought Pham could come in on the ball and it just carried past him on a line drive. 111.7 mph EV.

[Ex Player]

111mph EV on Vlad double

[Terminator]

If it was so easy to consistently beat the shift and go against your regular pull tendencies why doesn't everyone do it? It's not just power hitters who are shifted against these days, Freddy Galvis just simply isn't a good enough hitter to make that adjustment or Tampa Bay wouldn't have shifted in the first place.

 

The one thing that shocks me is that these guys don't try bunting. I get that it's not easy but if I'm a lefty and I'm staring at the shift I'm putting in some extra practice the next offseason to work on bunting. If you have so much power you simply want to hit it over their heads then fine but there are some guys that aren't that good of hitters that should be trying this.

[Brownie19]

Buck just said Gurriel's been more aggressive since returning from AAA.....like a guy with a career 4.0 BB% could get anymore aggressive..

[DigitalRock]

Bad luck he hit that Hard.

[Orgfiller]

The one thing that shocks me is that these guys don't try bunting. I get that it's not easy but if I'm a lefty and I'm staring at the shift I'm putting in some extra practice the next offseason to work on bunting. If you have so much power you simply want to hit it over their heads then fine but there are some guys that aren't that good of hitters that should be trying this.

 

You're right but the third baseman was playing shallow so unless they were going for the squeeze it's still a tough bunt to pull off when you have the force at every base.

[gruber92]

We've had a ton of hard hit balls right at people the last little while.

[Terminator]

You're right but the third baseman was playing shallow so unless they were going for the squeeze it's still a tough bunt to pull off when you have the force at every base.

 

Yeah in that situation it wouldn't have applied. Just talking in general.