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Originally Posted by fleury
Totally right. Statistics as they say, can be misleading. I think in this case what this shows is when the young team is running away with the game they’re really confident. When they’re put in a clutch situation they’re not performing as well. How to they work through it? Coaching? Psychologists? Because it looks totally like a mental block to me.
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Something lost in this is how demoralizing it is to see a lead evaporate in the matter of an inning or two. Like has been the case in more games than I can count this season. It's one thing to lament the bats going cold in a 2-1 game. But when it's 6-1 and the pen gives up the game it's hard to just flip it back on and score runs at will. Maybe that comes down to psychology. Maybe that comes down to a lack of killer instinct. Who knows.