Will Venable Stands by Decision to Pitch to Pete Crow-Armstrong in Sox Loss
The CHGO White Sox discuss the Chicago Cubs walking off the Chicago White Sox after Manager Will Venable opted to pitch to MVP candidate Pete Crow-Armstrong in the 10th inning with a base open.
Video Transcript
What did Will Venable say about PCA?
From Scott Merkin, a beat writer for MLB.com.
Venable on thinking about walking PCA in the 10th with first base open.
Quote, "No, that's not an option there with Seiya behind him.
That puts us in a tough spot and not a thought.
I mean, you think about all the options, but that's not one we're gonna make there."
End quote.
Brutal.
I, I, I don't understand it.
It's, it's left on left just, like, supremacy.
You're just thinking the platoons are gonna work out with you on the, the stat sheet.
And, and I, I don't mean to be unk.
I don't mean to be old school baseball here.
But like, yes, over large sample sizes of bad baseball players or maybe inept baseball players, handedness wins.
Left on left wins.
But again, if you look at the actual stat sheet and go into what the player is do- doing, it's a 266 average versus right-handed pitching before today, a 355 a 358 on base percentage and a 548 slugging percentage, 906 OPS versus lefties, 296 average, 406 on base percentage, 500 slugging percentage.
