Also, Rzep had 9 scoreless appearances up until that moment. Moore is a dead pull hitter and Rzep’s pitches were placed well outside almost in the other batter’s box. Moore flailed at the previous pitch. He poked his bat out there and just happened to get enough of it for it to drop.

Please, for the love of God, let’s drop this narrative *right now*.

Win Probability (using Hardballtimes Calculator) if the play had gone the Braves way? 81%…for the Cardinals. (the call going the Cardinals way made it 92%).

That means, had that call gone the Braves way, there was still an 81% chance they would lose. It was a big blown call, *but it every likely had no bearing on the outcome of the game*.

Scrabble being called on was just goofy.

The sac bunt moved Adron Chambers to second, not Freese. Still goofy though.

Game shoulda been put away much earlier, way to many blown ops and players failing to step up when called upon.

Davey said he did call for the bunt. Would have put Jackson as a pinch-runner in for a suicide squeeze, but was afraid EJax might get injured. Only curiosity to me was him using Bernadina as a PH instead of Lombardozzi. Davey likes to use Bernie later for defensive purposes. Luckily Morse made that catch in LF.

From Wapo:

Baseball Prospectus’s Sam Miller reported that Mattheus became the first pitcher in postseason history to finish an inning in just two pitches.