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This is Too Easy (Update)
Written by wrigleyville   
Monday, 12 May 2008
Corey Patterson can manage to get out without even making an at-bat. He's that terrible. This is fascinating: In the Reds/Mets game this Sunday, Reds catcher David Ross batted out of order. Corey Patterson was supposed to be at the plate. Rotoworld explains: "Per MLB rules, Ross has to complete his at-bat to be ruled out, and the outcome of his at-bat is then discarded with no runners allowed to advance. The Mets allowed him to do so, and since he lined out to right there was little harm done. Ross was the batter listed in the order after Patterson, so he was forced to come back to the plate for his 'real' at-bat and Patterson was charged the out. Ross singled after returning to the batter's box." I don't know what's funnier; that Corey Patterson can get out without even making it to the plate, or that Dusty Baker is so much of a moron that he can't keep track of his own senile lineups. We'll go with "equally as funny." Dopes. Update: This, of course, is not the first time Dusty has done this. And his explanation in 2004 was golden: Baker said he tried to get Bucknor's attention, whistling and wiggling his fingers in a switching motion. But Bucknor never turned around. When Martinez led off the bottom of the inning with a double, Reds bench coach Jerry Narron asked Bucknor if there'd been a lineup switch. Bucknor said no, and Martinez was called out because the Cubs had batted out of order. "We saw that Martinez was in the game, but the home plate umpire never motioned to us," Narron said. Baker sprinted out to the mound with his lineup card and argued, but to no avail. When Baker was told the call stood, he got irate. Yelling and screaming, he tossed the lineup card on the ground, and Bucknor ejected him. Then Baker threw his hat on the ground. He walked away from the umpires but then went back, tossing his hat again and gesturing wildly. A tennis ball came flying out of the stands, and the crowd chanted "Dus-ty! Dus-ty!" Baker finally stomped back to the dugout, kicking a bat cloth and then a heavy warmup bat. When the bat didn't travel very far, Baker kicked it again before heading down the dugout steps. "I haven't been that mad in, WHOO!" Baker said. "I'm not proud of it. I called my wife and asked if my son saw it. She said he was in the bath tub. I'm glad he didn't see it. I hope he doesn't see the replay." WHOO! Managing is hard.

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