ANAHEIM – White Sox center fielder Luis Robert made a funny but painful and costly blunder in the third half of Saturday’s game against the Angels as he tried to catch a shallow ball from Anthony Rendon’s bat. just to jump off the head for a score-run error.
Fortunately, Robert felt good physically and even led the next half in a race with a single RBI to tie the game. But the game cost the White Sox two rounds in the frame and came in a possible 5-3 loss, which saw the Angels scoring three times in the eighth. It was a memorable mistake for all the wrong reasons, as the ball jumped dramatically off his head and there were two exits in the third, so a catch would have put an end to the threat.
Tim Anderson’s shortstop initially withdrew in an attempt to catch, but Robert ran 134 feet from his spot on the field, appearing to have called Anderson and got into the position of playing routinely. The track had a 95% chance of capture on Statcast. White Sox manager Tony La Russa, however, thought Robert might have had problems with the twilight at Angel Stadium.
“I think this is happening, before it gets dark, it’s happening in the whole league,” La Russa said. [Luis] he played deep, he had a long way to go. It’s Gold Glover, you must have had to run 200 meters to get there, I’m exaggerating, but it’s been a long road. At dusk, it’s hard anywhere. “
However, Robert’s mistake was not the end of his madness. Right-hander Adam Eaton caught the ball out of the net and tried to catch David Fletcher as he sprinted home, but the shot went wide of the post and bounced off the mound, bouncing to the bottom. Rendon advanced to second base on error and Jared Walsh followed with a single RBI to score Rendon, giving right-back Lance Lynn two undefeated rounds in the half.
Lynn, however, said it was only part of the game and was not frustrated by Robert.
“Your job is to pick up the boys,” Lynn said. “I take you when you have bad games, I give you scores and I make great songs for you. This game is ugly. So there is no guilt, nothing, you are everything you do in the next pitch and this is the truth of the matter. You can’t worry about what happened before, because it doesn’t matter and you have to make the next pitch. Unfortunately, I made a mistake with the next hit and he managed to shoot one through the six holes there. But I have to pitch and we have to get out of this. That’s what I’m doing. “
Angels manager Joe Maddon was impressed by Fletcher’s instincts to score until the end and noted that the game was another reason why putting the ball in the game is better than a shot.
“How about the baserunner who scored on him?” Maddon said. “When David came in, I told him that not everyone signs up for that. I wanted him to know that. So I want to give him credit, too. And yes, move the ball, move the ball. ‘ so that they can run on their own. ‘- Coach Ed Morgan. Hazleton High School, 1972. “