(And man, if Derek Dietrich doesn’t hit it over the fence… he has just a. Still, that BABIP is shockingly low and a good sign for his bat coming around. His hard-hit ball rate is down a tad and his soft contact is up (which hurts the BABIP, for sure) and he’s hitting fewer line drives. His walk rate and strikeout rate are about the same as last year. Suárez’s batting average on balls in play is just. ![]() The biggest difference so far this season may be luck. Despite that average, he’s been one of the team’s better players. Suárez unluckyĮugenio Suárez hit his 10th homer of the season on Monday and was 2 for 4 to raise his average to. That’s backfired at times and worked in other situations. Manager David Bell has been quick to pull starters early, relying on his bullpen. Opponents have faced Reds pitchers a third time in 158 plate appearances and are hitting. He also gave up his first home run of the season in such circumstances, a three-run shot to Pablo Sandoval. Monday, the Giants matched those three hits in six at-bats in their three-run sixth, when DeSclafani faced Giants hitters for the third time. 176/.364/.235 against in 22 plate appearances so far this season the third time through an order. He’d given up just three hits and batters were hitting. And before Monday, Anthony DeSclafani had been one of the best among Reds starters when teams had gotten a look at him. No Reds pitcher has seen a batter for a fourth time this season. It’s not a perfect system, but it’s a system they’re working on perfecting. It’s an impressive place, where people are doing their best to make sure the right calls are made. ![]() Another play that involved a catch that shouldn’t have been a catch and where to place the runners after the right call was made, was a little more involved and had us all asking questions as the time ticked on. Mine was the quickest, but that may have been because I’m apt to call “stand” when I see it on the field and my play was a clear stand. Four of us – myself, Chris Welsh, Reds TV producer Josh Hall and director Brian Hunterman – went on the ROC tour and each of us had our time in the hot seat. The ROC will move to MLB’s headquarters in Manhattan and double in size starting next year. Increasingly more high-frame-rate cameras are at big-league ballparks, making zooming in on action easier than ever. Instead of waiting for calls to be challenged to start the process, possible challenges are replayed several times by those inside the ROC before a decision is ever made. Replay may be no less controversial than ever, but the system is getting better every year. There are plenty of arguments for and against replay, but it was great to see it up close and where it actually happens.Įach station has a technician and an umpire, several monitors and then a stack of reference materials including the ground rules for where that game is being played and a rule book. It was a fascinating place, with 40 TVs on one wall (four deep, 10 across) and then six work stations where umpiring crews watch every game along with technicians who can find any available angle and play it back in slow motion to help pick up what can sometimes seem impossible to see in real time on the field. I took the tour of the ROC (replay operations center) at the MLB.com office last week when we were in New York. I’m not sure I got it right, but I do know that the trained professionals had the same thought process I did. Two days ago, the umpires in the room at Chelsea Market in New York came to the same conclusion I did. I swear this took an instant, but I look over and it was 43 seconds. If there’s a textbook case of “tie goes to the runner” (something that actually isn’t in the rulebook and isn’t the rule), this may be it. ![]() Each of the angles seems to contradict the other. I think Uehara got there just ahead of Hernandez, but I’m not sure. I look to the side, there are several angles around the base, all of the same play. Already somewhere around 10 seconds have elapsed, I can tell because there’s a clock in the corner of the room that I can see out of the corner of my eye.
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