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Monday, July 06, 2009
I’m not one to complain about players not hustling, but…
I was watching the Nats game tonight. In the top of the 7th with the Nats down one run, Dunn hits a line drive to the wall in right field. He jogs down to first base, the ball ricochets off the wall and comes all the way back toward the infield. Dunn jogs into second base. Anyone - and I mean anyone - would have had a triple easily. Seriously, it was not even close.
Then with runners on 1st and 3rd and no outs, the batter hits a comebacker and Dunn gets picked off of third base, clearly a base running error (although I think that the pitcher could have turned a DP and Dunn would not have scored - a better result of course). Dunn walks back into the dugout and one of the coaches gives him a “that’s OK, buddy” pat on the back.
This guy gets paid millions of dollars to entertain and try and win games for the fans and the fans pay good money to see the Nats at least attempt to win a few games. As it is, the Nats suck. Shouldn’t they be trying really hard to win close games and shouldn’t the coaches not be condoning such lazy and disrespectful (to the fans) behavior?