After Felipe Lopez leads off the game with a double, Joe Morgan complains that No. 2 hitter Ryan Ludwick didn’t try to move the runner over to third, instead swinging to drive him in.
Morgan, being the idiot that he is, doesn’t acknowledge that had Ludwick moved the runner over to third, Randy Wolf almost certainly would have intentionally walked Albert Pujols with first base open (even with Matt Holliday coming up).
Then, after Ludwick walked and Pujols hit a fly ball to right that advanced Lopez to third, Morgan decides to show how smart he is by pointing out that had Ludwick moved Lopez over to third, that fly ball would have driven Lopez home. Morgan does not acknowledge that had Lopez been on third with one out, Pujols likely would have had the bat taken out of his hands. Nor does he acknowledge that had Lopez been on third with one out as opposed to Lopez being on second and Ludwick being on first with no outs, Wolf would have pitched differently to Pujols.
I really hate Joe Morgan.
Kudos to Wolf, who pitched around the first and second with no outs situation by retiring Pujols, Matt Holliday and Yadier Molina in succession to escape the jam.
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