Howie Kendrick
Game-Winning Bunt Single Draws Ire of Opposing Team’s Pitcher
Thursday, April 29th, 2010 | Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, MLB, Sports | No Comments
I love this – Howie Kendrick won the game for the Angels on Wednesday night with a 2-out bunt single that enabled the winning run to score from 3rd base in the bottom of the 9th inning to break a 3-3 tie. Kendrick expertly pushed the bunt past Indians’ pitcher Chris Perez and neither 1st base man or 2nd baseman could make the play to get Kendrick out at 1st base. Most walk-off hits don’t occur that way, but when you see an opening (with the right side of the infield playing so deep), sometimes you just have to take advantage of what the other team gives you. Now Perez, however, didn’t feel the same way about the “bush-league” walk off bunt by Kendrick. This is what he had to say: “It was a bad baseball play that happened to work out. I don’t want to say it was bush league. But you never see that. Nintey-nine percent of hitters in that situation would rather win the game with a hit, not a bunt… It was a stupid play that just happened to work.”
I’d love to see what Perez had to say if one of his players made the same smart that Kendrick made to win a game for the Indians. I have a feeling he’d think otherwise. Gotta love baseball players…
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