I'm really getting tired of seeing players not run hard on the bases. It's infuriating.
The Yankees rarely have players not run hard but tonight there was an exception.
Bottom of the third, two outs, Nick Swisher doubled to left-center. That brought up Mark Teixeira. Teixeira lined one off the left-field wall, a bullet that Delmon Young played on a hop. It was hit so hard that Teixeira only got a single.
Meanwhile, Swisher was jogging around third. Suppose Teixeira decided to go for a double. If he gets thrown out at second before Swisher scores, then the inning is over and the run doesn't count. Maybe Teixeira saw Swisher jogging around third and to insure the run stayed at first instead of going for two.
So the run scored, an RBI single for the Yankees first baseman. But that kind of lazy running on the basepaths by Swisher has a way of showing up at very inopportune times.
By the way, I hate typing out Mark Teixeira's name. Mark is such a difficult name to spell properly. I'm always thinking, is it Mark with a K or Marc with a C?
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