The New York Mets need to immediately fire a member of their staff after absurd situation against Yankees
This may seem like a bit of an overreaction, but the New York Mets need to immediately fire a member of their coaching staff after the travesty that occurred on Saturday afternoon in Yankee Stadium. In the top of the seventh inning, with one out and a runner on first base, Mets centerfielder Tyrone Taylor […]
This may seem like a bit of an overreaction, but the New York Mets need to immediately fire a member of their coaching staff after the travesty that occurred on Saturday afternoon in Yankee Stadium.
In the top of the seventh inning, with one out and a runner on first base, Mets centerfielder Tyrone Taylor roped a double to the gap.
The runner on first was third baseman Brett Baty, who is far from the fastest guy on the team.
For some bizarre reason, Mets third base coach Mike Sarbaugh sent Baty home on the double (as noted by Mets play-by-play man Gary Cohen). The Yankees executed a perfectly relay and tagged Baty out at the plate.
If you're the Mets, you've gotta fire Sarbaugh after that. You just have to.
That might be the worst send I've seen in my 30 plus years of watching baseball. Taylor was the No. 9 hitter for the Mets on Saturday, which means the top of the lineup would've been coming up with runners on second and third and one out in a game that was tied 2-2 at the time.
Even a baseball novice can tell you that holding the slow-footed Baty at third base to set up second and third with one out with a couple of superstars in Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto due up would've been the easy and obvious call.
Mistakes happen. But that was an egregious mistake by Sarbaugh that simply can't happen at the big league level. Those are the types of decisions that lose games. And the Mets, who play in one of the toughest divisions in the sport, can't be losing games because their third base coach doesn't understand a very basic situation.
Sarbaugh cost the Mets a chance at a big inning because his head apparently wasn't in the game. If he can't lock in during a huge weekend series against the Yankees, then how in the world is this team supposed to count on him if they make it to October?
