Excellent Question - Stopping Pudge at 3rd......
.....it was on my mind as well. Being off today, I was able to stay up into the wee hours and watch the non-stop aftergame interviews and reports on YES. Guest Paul O'Neill made a great observation that coach (I think he said Guillen) was way too close to 3rd (a replay confirmed he was). The issue isn't that the coach stopped Pudge and then waved him on, it was where he was stopping him. Pudge started stopping as he was coming into 3rd, instead of being stopped after having rounded 3rd. When Garcia bobbled the ball, although the coach tried to re-start Pudge, the sloppy ground around the base made it difficult for that little Mac truck to get going again. The answer IMO, is this was a run the Marlins could've/should've had, but for the 3rd base's coach lousy positioning. BTW, a great point made by O'Neill - completely missed by everybody calling the game, as well as all the "experts" chimimng in later.
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