Found October 18, 2009 on Big League Stew:
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Saturday's ALCS Game 2 featured nine regulation innings, four extra frames of free baseball and so many could-have-gone-either-way decisions that one of our singular Second Guesses simply wouldn't have sufficed. With that in mind, here are a few situations that warrant a bit of Big League Stew's special brand of hindsight: Q: Should Maicer Izturis(notes) have thrown to second in the 13th inning?A: Of course not. Just about everyone knew the Angels second baseman was making a bad decision the instant we saw him field a Melky Cabrera(notes) ground ball and start throwing across his body toward second. Izturis later chalked up his error — which brought Jerry Hairston home with the winning run — as a byproduct of his "aggressive" style, but there was no room to take chances at that spot in the game. The smart play was to get Cabrera at first for the second out, then have Ervin Santana(notes) take his chances with Jorge Posada(notes). * * * Q: Should lef...
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