Stupid Bunt

I was cursing Dusty for this move at the time

The difference gets bigger, though, if one of the hitters coming up can’t hit.

Ryan Hanigan can hit. He struck out anyway.

Travis Wood can’t hit. He struck out, too.

Miguel Cairo died on third base.

All because Baker let his obsession with the 90 feet between second base and third base — and, frankly, the natural tendency for managers to overmanage — trump his awareness that one of the two hitters coming up next wasn’t actually a hitter at all.