Hopefully, Tanaka learns his lesson. You don’t throw a guy like Napoli a fastball when you are ahead, 1-2.

IF Gardener can’t run in that sequence (steal, hit & run, anything!) he loses at least 50% of his value to the team. We could have had Fatty Arbuckle pinch run for him and the sequence would have been no different. Everyone on the planet knows Jeter is a DP machine anymore.

However, I suppose the biggest mystery is why Tanaka didn’t throw another splitter to the Mambo Italiano guy.

[38] Great movie, but he doesn’t say “a failure” as is often misquoted, he just says “What we got here is…failure to communicate.”