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With runners at 1st and 3rd, down two, bottom of the 11th and the Mariners' best hitter at the plate the game ends on a caught stealing.
What?
It was homage to Babe Ruth who made the final out of Game Seven of the 1926 World Series by getting caught stealing.
Of course in the case of Ruth, he was probably feeling restless and ticked off, he had homered in his first plate appearance and then been walked in his next four.
It was homage to Babe Ruth who made the final out of Game Seven of the 1926 World Series by getting caught stealing.
Of course in the case of Ruth, he was probably feeling restless and ticked off, he had homered in his first plate appearance and then been walked in his next four.
Ruth was an excellent base runner, had very high stolen base stats for a power hitter (especially a fat one), and even stole home ten times. Several times he finished in the top 15 in MLB in SB, but was caught stealing as often as he was successful, because he was a flamboyant showoff. In 1926 he stole 11 bases, and 132 for his career. and had successfully stolen a base earlier in the same series..
In other words, it was not necessarily bad strategy for a base runner as good as Ruth to try to steal his way into scoring position with two out in a one-run game. O'Farrell had an average CS%, and Meusel was at the plate, not Gehrig. Meusel had only 37 extra-bae hits that year.
With runners at 1st and 3rd, down two, bottom of the 11th and the Mariners' best hitter at the plate the game ends on a caught stealing.
What?
And today, Astro Jordan Schaefer successfully steals second off Molina, with two out in the ninth (but dies there).
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