So Randy Knorr, Davey Johnson's bench coach, admitted during a radio interview in Canada (590 The Fan in Toronto) that his only regret about NLDS Game 5 was that Pete Kozma got to hit in the 9th with Jason Motte on deck. Via Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post:
"The only thing I kick myself about was, we had a chance to walk Kozma to get Cruz up to hit to get Motte out of the game at a tie ballgame before Kozma got the two-out hit to drive in two runs. I kind of looked back at him and said, ‘What do you want to do here?’ I think the whole dugout was so shocked that they scored the two runs, anyway. Because we thought we had a good chance of winning. It happened so fast." (Randy Knorr, via Nationals Journal, 10/18/2012)
*sigh* Bet you a dollar Davey Johnnson still doesn't give a rat's ass.
Time to move on. Go Giants. Or Tigers.
(Screen cap of Randy Knorr via MASNSports.com video)
Its good to hear they were discussing it but its all moot if Drew did the job against Yadier Molina as he was the tying run in the batter's box at the time.
Once you put Yadier on with a free pass, all dynamics changed.
Posted by: Steve M. | October 19, 2012 at 11:01 AM