The Los Angeles Dodgers become the first team for 25 years to win back-to-back World Series after overcoming the Toronto Blue Jays in the deciding seventh game.
The amount doesn’t matter as much as the context. Plenty of mistakes will always happen because baseball is very hard, but some only happen when you’re not focusing on fundamentals. The Dodgers definitely performed below their level, but the Jays committed serious bad-fundamentals blunders in high-leverage situations, and they lost the World Series because of one that was particularly egregious and that you could count on D3 college players to never make. I’m not exaggerating when I say the Blue Jays would be smoking cigars (or comatose) right now if IKF hadn’t taken a four inch lead off third, nor taken a bad hop off the batted ball, nor spent time watching it, nor slid on a force play. The Blue Jays win if he only makes three out of four mistakes. But he made all four mistakes and was out by less than a centimeter. If I was John Schneider I would have drowned him in the Gatorade cooler the instant he set foot in the dugout. Though that would also be unjustifiable because he reacted to the doubling-up travesty from the other day by telling the basurunners not to take leads anymore, which was bad coaching, shutting the barn door after the horse runs out, and Tom-fool advice. When you have two fairly evenly matched teams, the difference will come from who has the nerves not to fuck up the basics in high-pressure situations.
Toronto also forgot that being good at running the bases is critical in baseball, hence the name.
I don’t think they made that many base running mistakes other than game 7.
Dodgers were consistently bad on offense and defense throughout. They only had one game where their offense didn’t seem worthless.
The amount doesn’t matter as much as the context. Plenty of mistakes will always happen because baseball is very hard, but some only happen when you’re not focusing on fundamentals. The Dodgers definitely performed below their level, but the Jays committed serious bad-fundamentals blunders in high-leverage situations, and they lost the World Series because of one that was particularly egregious and that you could count on D3 college players to never make. I’m not exaggerating when I say the Blue Jays would be smoking cigars (or comatose) right now if IKF hadn’t taken a four inch lead off third, nor taken a bad hop off the batted ball, nor spent time watching it, nor slid on a force play. The Blue Jays win if he only makes three out of four mistakes. But he made all four mistakes and was out by less than a centimeter. If I was John Schneider I would have drowned him in the Gatorade cooler the instant he set foot in the dugout. Though that would also be unjustifiable because he reacted to the doubling-up travesty from the other day by telling the basurunners not to take leads anymore, which was bad coaching, shutting the barn door after the horse runs out, and Tom-fool advice. When you have two fairly evenly matched teams, the difference will come from who has the nerves not to fuck up the basics in high-pressure situations.