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Originally Posted by octothorp
Not to mention Bautista stealing third uncontested, which ended up being huge, as it forced Podsednik to go for the catch, rather than conceding the single and trying a throw to the plate.
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Yeah, that was quite a sequence there, mind you I think Bautista could have taken 3rd on that wild pitch. That was reasonably alert base running by him to not get caught in no mans land and get picked off third after he did get there as that wild pitch came back to Pierzynski pretty fast. Still having the runner at third forced Posednik to have to make the catch rather than be able to catch it on a hop and try to throw out the guy at the plate was definitely to the Jays advantage. Have to give Posednik credit though...he knew the only play to save the run was to go all out for the catch, just came up a few inches short.