Small ball

There you go

... and, uh, Milwaukee, small ball is, is, it's coming back.

Unfortunately it's coming back right before a stoppage.

Yeah.

shortstop like he does i can't believe i watch this guy do this it it's just not that easy to do it but it is from i guess it is for mookie betts he's in a different level

last night the dodgers in the second third fourth and fifth inning had the leadoff runner on you mentioned it as bad as blake snell pitched the dodgers were only down one nothing going to the second going to the third and in the third what happens miggy rowe leadoff double And then the Dodgers' inability to play small ball reared its ugly head again.

Tommy Edmond gets a ball low in the zone, a fastball from Ray Kerr, and pops it up to the charging third baseman for the first out.

Absolutely brutal.

Let's go to the next thing on the list.

Let's talk a little bit about the use of small ball.

Real- the use of small...

We're talk- we're talking bunning, we're talking sacrificing, we're talking about using a pinch runner, we're talking about hitting the ball to the right side to move a guy to the left, productive outs, all of that kind of stuff.

You sit around, you wait for home runs, you wait for crooked numbers, you hope someone pops one into a gap, and you hope to score a bunch of runs at once by stringing together a few hits in an inning here and an inning there.

That's how you do it.

You almost never play small ball during the regular season.

Small ball in the postseason, a lot.

We'll cut his nose off and spite his face.

one thing i've i've always been told is we're not going to change our philosophy in october and my response is you haven't won anything in 17 years in october yeah that's the thing that in a nutshell is the thing right you haven't been playing smart baseball you haven't played small ball you're living and dying with that three-run home run, right? And there's nobody on base, and you're still swinging for a three-run home run, right?

Yep, and that's how it seems like the Rays beat you.

Yes.

But you got to really, really, really put the pedal down and capitalize.

What do you see Volpe doing this series? Because I think he's a sleeper in all this.

Like I said, the last time we spoke, I think the best place for him is eighth or ninth, right? You put him at eighth or ninth, is he someone who's going to play the small ball? But I have a better feeling about Vopie now than I did prior to him coming back.

I do think he's a little more confident in himself at the plate.

In, in ter- but I don't think he played in the field, I don't think he had an at-bat, and he ended up getting three World Series rings.

But what you wanna do, um, again, we don't play a lot of small ball.

Would, would everybody like for it to show up if needed? Sure.

But more than that, you know, give me my three-run home run, and then give me the fly ball or, or ground ball to the right side with a man on third, less than two outs.

Now, is that small ball? N- well, it can be if somebody, if you believe somebody consciously made a decision to have an at-bat where they pushed it that way.

But for the most part, sometimes things just happen.

Yeah.

I know we're capable of doing some of them, but we haven't proved to be overly capable at a couple of them.