When Easly hit that double towards left field and Cabrera was running to home, I think Miguel should have ran over Jason Kendall like a bull. I mean come on, look at Cabrera's size. He could have eaten up Kendall. But nope, he decided to just give him a little nudge and walk back to the dugout with out scoring a run. I think the only player to do that this year from the Marlins was Treanor, and he was safe. Everyone else needs to start trying to knock the ball out of the catcher when its a close play like that. Ive seen Conine and Gonzalez just keep running without making an effort of knocking the ball out. What do you all think?

You make a good point but the black sheep of yesterdays failure was Pierre. He was responsible for 2 outs in the very close 9th inning.

Pierre has been getting thrown out a lot lately when he steals. I don't see him having as many stolen bases as he did last year. But man with the size Cabrera has he should have eaten up Jason Kendall.

pierre makes it obvious when he steals, he leans too much...

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look at carl crawford...hes very deceptive.

i agree with all of you..and another thing..maybe Im wrong..but i noticed that kendall was toward the right side of home plate he wasnt right infront of it..couldnt Cabrera slide or something and touch home plate b4 kendall could reach him.. :mischief2

I would have still ran him over...LOL

the screw ups yesterday where too many to mention. we fumbled.

Yeah I've noticed too. Pierre gets very concentrated and extremely fidgety when he is going to steal. He has to be more deceptive and run on an offspeed pitch or a pitch that will probably hit the ground.

Sorry, but there is no way Cabrera is safe on that play. Kendall made the play you are taught as a catcher to make, he grabbed the ball, set, and tagged him with his body out of the way, so there was no chance of the call coming free.

If he would have hit him harder instead of giving him a soft nudge then maybe there could have been a chance of him being safe.

He had the ball for a good 3 seconds before cabrera reached him. There was no way he was gonna drop the ball. Kendall was off of the base line anyway so there is no way cabrera could have ran him over.

Yea he could have ran him over. He even pushed him. Just not hard enough. I bet if he would have hit him hard he might have dropped it. It was the exact situation when Treanor knocked the ball out his first game with the Marlins.

Let me explain this again. I'm sure kendall had the damned japanese death grip on the ball by the time cabrera reached him. He was also a foot off of the base line so even if cabrera wanted to ram him he would have had to run away from the plate. Get it?

Yes I know, but he could have still ran him over if he wanted to. Running a foot away from the plate is not gonna do any harm. Its been done before. Just that Cabrera needs to learn some more.

It seemed to me that cabrera hesitated before as he reached third base, that hesitattion should have caused him(or the third base coach) to make the decision to stay at third and wait for the next hitter.

Yup

agreed that there was little cabrera could do ... even on his shove attempt kendall kind of diffused it

 

kendall just had the ball way to early, death gripped it and got it into position

 

If cabrera tried to duck a shoulder and hit him hard, kendall would of given him the matador treatment and sent cabs stumbling

 

what cabs should of done was stay at 3rd

 

hopefully the fish got it out of their system last night with a big series coming up

 

pavano walking the bases loaded and the beaning in a run, easley's error and the cabs green light ........ the pirates should send a thank you card

Of course Cabrera should have stayed at third. That was the best option. But since he was waived to go to home, he could have put some effort in trying to run over Kendall. Believe me he could have done it. Even though Kendall had a grip on the ball, some effort in trying to knock it out isnt gonna hurt.

Yes I know, but he could have still ran him over if he wanted to. Running a foot away from the plate is not gonna do any harm. Its been done before. Just that Cabrera needs to learn some more.

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Dude, Kendall was text book on that play. There was 0% chance of Cabs trucking him AND touching home plate.

Whatever you say man. Cabrera COULD HAVE trucked him and touched the plate. He even gave him a little nudge. Therefore if he put some more effort he could have ran him over. But yea, whatever you say.

You don't understand. He couldn't of. Trust me, I am 150% sure.

YEAH AND IM 200% SURE. IVE SEEN IT BEEN DONE B4 IN THE SAME SITUATION.

Im sure times infinity. NA NA NA NA BOO BOO!

LOL my point is, he could have tried.

YEAH AND IM 200% SURE. IVE SEEN IT BEEN DONE B4 IN THE SAME SITUATION.

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Yeah seen it done before right?

 

I'm a catcher, there is NO WAY Cabs hits Kendall on that play. Sorry. He was CLEARLY off the plate by a couple feet, he reached out with both hands to swipe a tag on him and Cabs could do nothing but hope Kendall missed. That's it. He was meat at the plate and he couldn't do anything.