Originally Posted by
jsearles22
Always one to whine on bad beats; I thought it’s fair to point out the lucky wins. Royals down 1-0 top 5th. 2 outs no one on. Hunter Dozier has been trash but works a walk from a guy throwing like 90% strikes. Then soft hitting Michael Taylor hits a ground ball through the shift. It slightly splits the OF and the Royals 3B coach sends Dozier. He’s out by 20 feet at least. Bet lost. But the catcher flat out drops it. No contact, no pressure. Just drops it. The Royals score two more on sharply hit singles and go up 3-1 top 5th.
Yes, that one was lucky.
Unfortunately, the bad beat monster came for me a little bit later, and turned a win into a tie.
The Yankees / Tigers only had 21 R+H+E after 9, but unfortunately it was 1-1, so here we went to extras. Line for me was 23, 24 for Sanlmar.
Yankees scored 1 on a passed ball, though they also got an infield single. So that was 22.
So to win, I had to see the game end with no hits, with a runner starting at second. But it should have! Two outs, 1-2 count to Robbie Grossman, and clear strike 3 was thrown. Instead, it was ruled a ball, and the next pit was smacked out, to win for the Tigers 3-2.
I tied. So while a tie wasn't a bad result for me given that it went to extras, the mis-called third strike changed my win to a tie.
Dodgers have bases loaded. They've been terrible with the bases loaded for years (ignoring the recent Lux grand slam). Lux is up again.