Highly doubt it. Its probably that they domt want to burn their closer down one with a chance to tie. You save him for possible extra innings
Don't fault him after he flexed unnecessarily because he would've been out. BUT, the flex was unnecessary. He acted like the ball was easily gone.
Yeah, I feel the same way. I didn't realize how much we did that back until we didn't now. When you start thinking, "Man, if the pitcher was batting, it'd be automatic that he'd try to sac bunt with a man on, and I'd be okay with that. And we're not even getting the contribution that a pitcher would make to the batting effort here"...that's pretty messed up.
So many little things can mean the difference between winning and losing, and Springer not hustling out of the box may have cost the game, and maybe even the series....I mean who knows? Hinch needs to address that. That was HUGE!