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Orioles 10, Red Sox 6: Inside The Game -- To bunt or not to bunt?
10:19 PM EDT on Tuesday, June 10, 2008
BOSTON -- The runners were at first and second with none out in the bottom of the second with the Sox trailing, 4-1.
Alex Cora, the number nine hitter, was up.
Time for a bunt? Play for a run or two this early in the game? Or swing away?
Cora squared and took the first pitch for a ball from Daniel Cabrera. He looked down to third-base coach DeMarlo Hale for a sign after the pitch. If the bunt had been on — and Cora appeared to be just showing bunt, not really aggressively attempting to put one down on the first pitch — it was now off.
Cora did not square again in the at-bat. He took a ball and fouled off a pitch. He swung at the 2-and-1 pitch — and banged into a rally-killing double play, started by second baseman Brian Roberts.
Should he have bunted?
Too early in the game, not to mention the fact that he was batting .440 (11-for-25) in his career against Cabrera, which is why he started at shortstop last night instead of Julio Lugo (.158, 3-for-19 against Cabrera).
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