# MLB: May 2021 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [May 2, 2021, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-may-2021/941222 "2021-05-02T13:42:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-may-2021/941222/241 "2021-05-28T20:38:47Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > It seemed like Contreras (the runner who scored) was the only one involved who actually knew what was going on. Well I think more accurately he was the guy with the simplest possible job and he focused on doing just that without paying much attention to anything but home plate and getting under the tag. Once he launched from 3rd looking or thinking about anything else can just slow him down. Meanwhile, ref that brutal line from Slate, everybody else had a bigger more complicated job involving more players and they were just dumbfounded at the chaos. In everybody’s defense, the nature of any high performance human endeavor is that as long as everything is unfolding according to well-rehearsed plans with known pre-identified decision points humans can keep up with very fast moving stuff. Even stuff that has lots of possible branches and outcomes in very rapid succession. Be that playing infield baseball, driving an F1 car at 200mph, kung fu fighting, whatever. But when you suddenly have to _ad lib_ after trying to understand a totally novel situation unfolding at the same fast pace, you’re mostly hosed. Which is why one of the advices in MLB after a play starts to go stupid is “put it in your pocket”. After recovering the ball from one error whether your’s or somebody else’s, you’re vastly more likely to make a second error in haste during a now-broken play than you are to make a miracle throw or catch that saves the day. So just hold onto the ball until the umpires stop play. ---
**Author:** ![GnuMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@GnuMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GnuMe)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-may-2021/941222/242 "2021-05-29T21:08:06Z")
Forcing the batter out at first is key, correct? Had Craig or the catcher tagged Baez out, then the run would have counted if he scored before the tag…or no? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-may-2021/941222/243 "2021-05-29T21:43:06Z")
No; had Baez been tagged, the run would not have counted. Rule 5.08(a): “A run is not scored if the runner advances to home base during a play in which the third out is made (1) by the batter-runner before he touches first base; (2) by any runner being forced out; or (3) by a preceding runner who is declared out because he failed to touch one of the bases.” Note the difference in wording between examples 1 and 2. This is specifically to prevent EVERY batter-runner in such a situation from holding up halfway to first and refusing to go to first in the hopes the runner will score before he’s tagged. The Pirates should have ignored the runner going home. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-may-2021/941222/244 "2021-05-30T02:19:41Z")
Looks like Marcel Ozuna got arrested today. Domestic battery and strangulation. > **[UPDATE: Braves’ Marcell Ozuna accused of choking, hitting wife](https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-braves-marcell-ozuna-arrested-by-sandy-springs-police/UNGRREUJENFB7G25UA6LAQHXMA/)** > > Braves outfielder Marcell Ozuna was arrested Saturday after Sandy Springs officers reported seeing him choke his wife, throw her against a wall and strike her with the cast on his broken fingers. His wife was arrested on similar charges last year so looks like this isn’t the perfect marriage. He plays MLB, however. I imagine he won’t be playing much ball for while. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-may-2021/941222/245 "2021-05-30T04:14:08Z")
The Syracuse Mets clobber the Atlanta Braves 13-2. Let this be a warning: once our 739 injured guys get better, we might be talkin’ about a real ball club here. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-may-2021/941222/246 "2021-05-30T13:41:22Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > His wife was arrested on similar charges last year … Considering how strong a professional athlete like Ozuna undoubtedly is, that’s gotta be one feisty (or wasted or psycho) woman. None of which excuses either’s behaviors. If you can’t cohabit without violence, quit cohabiting. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-may-2021/941222/247 "2021-05-31T01:13:47Z")
Should be a bunch more Google hits now on “Gary Sanchez baserunning blunder”. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-may-2021/941222/248 "2021-05-31T02:21:42Z")
I have been watching baseball for forty years and have never seen a manager worse at managing a bullpen than Charlie Montoyo. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-may-2021/941222.md?page=12)