Oh please tell us who your choice for a savior

blah blah blah....Mike Scioscia is an idi0t....blah blah blah......

Amen.

And the rally in the first was created because of the hit and run. Instead of a 4-6-3 DP and no runs scored. We score 3 runs.

If you didn't notice the good in the first, you are not really qualified to be knocking Scioscia.

Your wrong as usual, Scioscia forcing batters to swing at bad pitches with his poor judgement. How many times does scioscia argue a call and he is right, about one in ten.

So Scioscia's "bad" move netted us three runs. This is why most people with perspective don't take you people seriously.

You have no perspective and incapable of noticing a Scioscia move netted our team three runs.

You couldn't be more wrong, all the the hits were solid except the hit and run play, he cost the Angels at least one run, maybe three more. Your a Scioscia kool-aid drinker. Once again Scioscia allowed a pitcher off the ropes with stupid Scioscia baseball.

Take away that hit and run and Izturis is 0-18.

You are one of these Anti-Kool-Aid drinkers who wouldn't drink the Kool-Aid if it contained a cure for cancer. Ironically the Anti-Kool-Aid drinkers out number the Kool-Aid drinkers by at least 5 to 1.

"Your a Scioscia kool-aid drinker."

*You're*

"You couldn't be more wrong"

Oh the irony!

Making hitters swing at bad pitches is one of the reasons they go into slumps. You have no clue.

Oh, Scioscia is the reason Izturis is 0-18? And any manager who calls the hit and run is simply wrong.

Thank you for proving my point.

If I were writing a TV show and needed an antagonist who was beyond stubborn and wouldn't listen to reason, I couldn't write him any better than you.

On this issue you are the quintessential TV caricature.

How does a manager/coach make hitters swing at bad pitches?

He stands at the edge of the dugout steps yelling "Swing, batter, SWIIIIING!"

MS puts a picture of Anaheimboob on the batting tee.

He could get Ferris Beuhler to do that.

By calling a hit and run at the wrong time. It happens.

The hit and run is a risky play. It worked to perfection last night and led to three runs.

My understanding of the hit n run play, after talking to MLB coaches, college coaches, high school coaches in hitting clinics they have all said that the hit n run is called to get the runner off before the batter hits. All of them also said they don't expect the hitter to swing at balls in the dirt, pitches head high, and pitches 5 inches or more outside of the strike zone. They expect the batter to swing and make contact with any pitch in any part of a slightly expanded strike zone. So I still don'tsee how a manager makes a hitter swing like anaheimbob said.

So you don't know there is a play where the runner from first breaks for second and the hitter is told to hit the ball?

You already know this, batters will go out of the strikeout to swing during the "hit and run".

In this case Izturis got a pitch well within the strike zone.

< You couldn't be more wrong >

Sure he could, he could be you. Anytime you start with something like that no one is going to take anything you say seriously. You just sound like a bitter complainer.

So are you saying the manager expects the hitters to swing at any pitch on a hit and run, or are you saying the players themselves expand the strikezone beyond reasonable?