Mark Kotsay believes Jack Perkins looked ‘sharper' in Athletics' loss to Royals
Athletics manager Mark Kotsay speaks to reporters after his team's 4-3 loss to the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday at Kauffman Stadium.
Mark Kotsay believes Jack Perkins looked 'sharper' in Athletics' loss to Royals originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
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Mark, what did you see there with that, check swing by Talbert, I mean, the check swing isn't the game, right?
I mean, obviously it's a big moment.
We execute that and, get the call right, then we're one out away with still the bases loaded.
We worked ourselves into a jam with an E-2 and a, and a walk there in the, in the ninth.
The eighth inning really led to the ninth inning.
You know, three walks, really cost us just from a standpoint of having to bring Hogan in to shut that inning down.
So, you know, it's, it's things that we've been talking about with the bullpen coming in and having to execute and, and, not give up free bases.
So, at the end of the night, we, we beat ourselves in this game.
And then the, the catcher's inter- two nights in a row for Salvi is What's happening there?
It just looks like Salvi's taking, like, a check swing and, and catching, you know, the catcher's glove deep.
It's not, doesn't look like it's any attempt to swing, which, but it doesn't have to be in the rule book.
Maybe something we need to look at to clean up, but, obviously it, it didn't look like Salvi even thought that, that there was catcher's interference there.
It looked like he wanted to stay in the batter's box, so.
But again, it's the second night in a row we've got an E-2 with him.
On a positive note, though, the opener really worked well.
Perkins, had to be one of his finer outings.
Yeah, I thought, Brady and Perk did a great job.
Like you said, you know, Perk's had his struggles.
We opened for him.
I thought the, the clean innings that he laid out tonight were, were great.
He looked sharper, obviously was attacking more.
You know, and I thought he did, I, I thought he did a great job in there.
