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I was going to send Kapler to the woodshed for playing the infield in with Goldshmit at the plate.. Much better chance the hard hitter grounds into a DP than that he hits a slow grounder.
 Sabol somehow washes that away with a 2 out, 2 strike, 2 run walk off homer.

When Goldschmidt was up, there were runners at 2nd & 3rd, so a run would score on a ground ball with the IF back.  Seems to me the only alternative to playing the IF in would have been an intentional walk to load the bases. Probably a reasonable alternative, but I suppose that analytics would have rejected that idea with the LH Gorman on deck.

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I was going to send Kapler to the woodshed for playing the infield in with Goldshmit at the plate.. Much better chance the hard hitter grounds into a DP than that he hits a slow grounder.
 Sabol somehow washes that away with a 2 out, 2 strike, 2 run walk off homer.

When Goldschmidt was up, there were runners at 2nd & 3rd, so a run would score on a ground ball with the IF back.  Seems to me the only alternative to playing the IF in would have been an intentional walk to load the bases. Probably a reasonable alternative, but I suppose that analytics would have rejected that idea with the LH Gorman on deck.