Pittsburgh – Fernando Tatis Jr. woke up and decided that he was going to play baseball.
A few hours later, he won a victory.
Tatis led the ninth round on Saturday by creating a double of a ball on the ground on the left field that he had no double trade.
With a withdrawal, he stole the third goal against a launcher who until that moment had seemed to plan that Tatis would try to fly.
With two withdrawals, he ran to the house on wild land that bound barely in front of the left-wing striker box, his left foot just beating the label of the receiver Joey Bart for what would be the decisive race in a 2-1 victory on the pirates.
“Above an individual show,” said Padres manager Mike Shildt.
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All this day after Tatis, his team and all his fans endured a huge fear when he took a quick ball in the forearm, which immediately started to swell and forced him from the match on Friday evening.
“When I was struck yesterday, I thought I was probably out of the season,” said Tatis. “You know, you see a bullet that is just developing on your forearm, it’s not fun. But cry out for training staff doing an excellent job while keeping me on the ground and find a way not to (do) excuses and simply execute.”
The spectacular finish contrasts with a day of relative inactivity.
The match started after the teams waited for rain showers before starting the game for the second consecutive day. Saturday’s match was delayed by 1 hour, 42 minutes. It was half an hour later than Friday’s match.
The pirate launcher Bailey Falter helped invent a certain time by taking only 72 throws to spend the first six sleeves, because the hackers held an advance of 1-0.
The Padres reached the base twice against the left -hander who entered the match with 5.93 MPM before Manny Machado went to the plate with one on the seventh round and made the match on the second field he saw.
“I’m just trying to get a good pitch to hit.” Said Machado. “Something that is missing on the plate. He didn’t really miss a lot. He was hitting his places. We could simply do nothing.”
Machado made a defect for an error pay, tearing a slider suspended in the middle of the striking area on the left field line at 114.3 MPH and in the stands section beyond the wall.
The pitching staff and the defense also obtain its part of the credit, while the Starter Randy Vásquez survived five -rounds, and four lifts closed the eighth consecutive victory of the Padres over the pirates dating from last season.
The only race that Vásquez authorized was led by the simple of 118.4 MPH of Oneil Cruz in the central field during the second round, which allowed Alexander Canario to score from the second. But the race was facilitated by a two withdrawal walk to Jared Triolo, who passed Canario in second place.
Vásquez would authorize six strokes and would walk five, but would escape problems in two other sleeves before Yuki Matsui, Alek Jacob, Jason Adam and Robert Suarez each work with a goalless round. Matsui, Jacob and Suarez each obtained the help of a double -match group.
To give Suarez a chance to win his 13th MLB stop, Tatis organized and executed one of the brightest and daring rounds that one player can have.
“This is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen,” said Padres outfall, Brandon Lockridge. “… He just made everything happen himself. It was incredible. “
Said Machado: “All alone. All alone.”
According to Shildt: “The whole thing was just a clinic.”
Tatis led the ninth round by anchoring a ball at 107.5 MPH under the diving of the third basic player Ke’bryan Hayes and in the left field, where Canario had played to prevent a balloon hit it for additional bases.
“They play” no double “, said Tatis. “You choose your defense, what they look like. I saw that the voltiper was a little shaded on the right, so I knew that as soon as the ball passed, I was ready to go to the second row. So there is just the arrival. ”
Tatis was committed outside the box, reached a top speed of 28.2 feet per second and slipped in the second even if it did not have to do so.
Luis Arraez followed with an update in third place, raising Machado.
“As a Baserunner, you know that you cannot go out to the bag,” said Tatis. “As soon as Arraz hit this ball on the ground, I say:” OK, a little more aggressive. “”
Tatis was dancing in second position in the first two throws of the Machado bat, and the hackers closer to David Bednar seemed to keep an eye on him. Then, while Bednar was preparing to launch a field of 0-2, Tatis derived about 15 feet from the bag. Bednar gave him a quick glance before turning around on the plate, how much Tatis jumped in an advance of almost 19 feet. As soon as Bednar raised his arm to throw, Tatis took off for the third. He slipped before Bart even has a chance to launch.
After two bullets, Machado looked at a third strike.
“Continue to be aggressive,” said Tatis about his thoughts at the time. “The next thing you know, I’m half-past in marble.”
In the canoe, the Padres players were amazed by the way Tatis had put himself at 90 feet from his home and almost planned the next step.
“We say to ourselves:” This guy is better not to climb a “,” said Lockridge. “Pitch Next …”
Yeah.
During his first throw to Xander Bogaerts, Bednar bounced a bent bullet about two feet in front of the marble and slightly on the left. Bart blocked the ball, which rebounded on the first base line about six feet. The recipient rushed after the ball, picked him up with his bare hand and plunged towards the plate.
Tatis, who had removed the moment when the ball bounced far from Bart, slipped and passed the foot through the marble just before Bart’s tag touches it on the hip.
“He was chasing, hunted, chased,” said Shildt. “And he went for the Kill. It’s just one of the best baseball games you will see. It’s just an excellent competition coupled with special talents.”
It was Tatis’ prospect:
“I know he has a large curve, also a clear split. So, I had it in my back in my mind, and I was just waiting for an opportunity. And having a big advance, creating a good secondary and, you know, these tiny stages (carried out) with a half-stage in play. ”
This is all it took to affect what proved to be the fourth consecutive victory of the Padres.
“Sometimes you are not going to go there and score 10 points or get 10 strokes,” said Machado. “(Falter) was difficult there. So we contributed, ridiculed with them and just tried to do everything we could to get a race. Mine obviously came with a circuit, but Tati jostles for a double there and then steal the third base, then perhaps winning two feet from the game. ”
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