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Saturday, May 28, 2005

Down The Duaner, A Glove Story: D'Backs 5, Dodgers 4

Do not throw your glove at the ball. When Vinny says it's the first time he's seen a play in the fifty-some years he's been broadcasting, you know it's weird; maybe, like the now infrequently seen "No Pepper" signs, they need to put that over the field entrances for the players. Duaner just hadda throw his damn glove up there, which gave Luis Terrero an automatic triple. Now, this does not appear to be in the Official Rules anywhere (if anyone can find them in there, please let me know), which means it's probably one of baseball's Double Secret Rules. (Update 5/29: thanks to the commenter who said it's 7.05(c).) I'll be looking forward to reading about this on Baseball Prospectus and/or Hardball Times presently. What would be really cool is if MLB would actually publish their instructions to umpires book so the rest of us could have a clue.

So, yeah, after Duaner gave up the "triple" (nitwit), Chad Tracy cashed him in (4-3) and the clearly rattled Sanchez gave up a solo shot to ... Javier Vazquez.

I'm still wiping the "yick" off.

The top of the order just stank like month old gym socks, going a collective 2-18. Antonio Perez, hitting an improbable .516 in 31 AB, clearly needs to move up in the order until he Peter Principles himself out of the job. But -- 12 hits for the Blue on the night versus five for the Snakes.

Dodgers pitching -- including young Derek Thompson, whose near-win and shiny scoreboard numbers covered up obvious laboring on the mound -- was actually decent (outside the collapsing Carrara), if not good.

Vazquez: shaky, by his lights, for most of the night, but helped out by his offense and his own bat. And another solid outing for the Diamondbacks' bullpen, with Lopez and Cormier giving up nothing in two innings.

ESPN Box MLB.com recap


Comments:
Rule 7.05(c) Three bases, if a fielder deliberately throws his glove at and touches a fair ball. The ball is in play and the batter may advance to home base at his peril.
 

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