There is no time to think. The bases are loaded, and the game is tied, and 43,066 people are pulsing, and the call comes in from the dugout, and there's a guy busting down the first-base line at 21 mph, and the ball takes two hops straight into Alcides Escobar's glove, and as much as he wants to think, to consider his optimal play, he cannot, because the baseball player who takes time to think is too fifa coins late already.
Escobar, 27, has fielded tens of thousands of groundballs in his life, maybe 100,000, from all-dirt playgrounds in Venezuela to the finely manicured infields of stadiums like AT&T Park, where he stood at 8:01 p.m. local time Saturday.
They readied him for this moment in the World Series, shaped his instinct so he didn't need to think in a key Game 4 situation, inured him to the second-guessing that may accompany it with lesser fielders, cocooned him from blame when that tie game devolved into an 11-4 loss by his Kansas City Royals against the San Francisco Giants.
He made the right choice. Of that he was sure during the postgame chat in which Escobar explained why on the groundball, with Hunter Pence booking toward first base, www.utfifas.co he threw the ball home to nab Joaquin Arias for a force out, the second of the inning, instead of trying to turn a double play and save rookie Brandon Finnegan from the eventual beatdown that torpedoed the Royals' chance at taking a three-games-to-one lead.
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