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Originally Posted by Inferno
Looking at it now it might have been best to walk him and take your chances with Bellinger but I get why they didn't. Walk him and you risk it being even more of a big inning. Pitch to him and at worse it's tied and you still have a chance.
He was also extremely lucky that was a homerun. Not just because it hitting the foul pole but because there was something like a 90-95% chance with whatever data they use that where that pitch ended up doesn't turn out to be a homerun. 99 out of a 100 times he probably doesn't do that.
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I could argue that for Judge it definitely is more than 99 out of 100 times. The problem is that they Jays didn't change the look with a ball away before going inside. At and 0-2 count with Judge you need to be very careful with pitch order and selection. But yes walk him when you have the chance and definitely don't walk the batters in front of him!