5/6/2023 0 Comments Michael cuddyer twins mini bat![]() The fact that Punto disobeyed this rule was infuriating enough-at the time the game was tied and his failed attempt could easily have cost the Twins the game-but the fact that he broke this rule while attempting to steal a base is, in my mind, unacceptable. Such outs are particularly damaging because they hurt a teams chance to rally. There are very few cardinal sins of baseball, but one of the most important is that a player should never make the first or third out of an inning at third base or home. Dan Gladden put it perfectly in the top half of the ninth, however, when he exclaimed that Punto should not have been running in that situation (I believe the Twins batter, Michael Cuddyer, was ahead in the count). Obviously, it had to have been close, or Punto and manager Ron Gardenhire would not have argued so vociferously so as to be ejected from the game. I acknowledge from the first that I did not and have not seen the play. After bringing my parents home, I listened to the game on the way back to my place and listened as Nick Punto was caught trying to steal third base to end the inning and kill a threat the Twins had mounted. So I set out to pick my parents up shortly after the first pitch of the Twins contest with the Tribe. I was supposed to pick my parents up from the airport around 3 pm, but a girl on their plane had a seizure, forcing an emergency landing in Newfoundland. ![]() I did not get the chance to watch much of the game this past Friday night. ![]()
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