Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
Our "lesser hitters" are also pretty fast for a team. We have to take advantage of that. Telling "lesser hitters" to go out and string three hits in a row to get a run is not "maximizing" our talent. It certainly works better when we run the bases well- and we didn't do that tonight.

You can point to tonight's game which we won anyway. I'll point to the game we won where we beat Tyler Beede.
My thing is just -- is "sacrificing" helping anything with those base runners? We should be 2 singles away from scoring them from first. I'd bet that statistically, it's a better play to hit and run or to straight steal these guys from first -- rather than taking the bat out of another(likely tremendous baserunner) with the sac. Which still takes a hit to score from second. And we strike out/pop up a bunch.

When I have the energy, I'm going to run through the exact numbers, because I'm curious to know...