scored on a sacrifice fly<\/a> in the 5th inning by Anthony Volpe.<\/p>\nFanduel Sports Network analyst Barry Larkin, a National Baseball Hall of Famer and former Reds great, said De La Cruz’s indecision over where to throw could’ve been avoided.<\/p>\n
“Elly’s back is to the play, so the assumption’s that the runner is tagging,” Larkin said. “And the throw just comes in (late). There’s got to be a lot of communication. They’ve got to be screaming at Elly because his back is to the play. He can’t forecast that.”<\/p>\n
“Yeah, but that’s where his teammates need to be telling him, ‘Home! Home! Home!'” play-by-play announcer John Sadak said.<\/p>\n
“Correct,” Larkin added. “Yeah, Elly’s back is to that runner at third base. And you don’t want to assume anything. But I’m assuming he just reacted to the crowd – the crowd noise.”<\/p>\n
“That’s a hard one to – I mean I didn’t see it. I was shocked as anybody,” Reds manager Terry Francona told reporters after the game. “I’m looking to watch the other runs because that’s a run. And I wanted to see who’s gonna tag and where. I don’t think anybody saw it.”<\/p>\n
Francona met with De La Cruz<\/a> to discuss his baserunning gaffe during Cincinnati’s 5-4 win in extra innings, and De La Cruz vowed that it wouldn’t happen again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elly De La Cruz talks Reds’ win over Yankees Cincinnati Reds SS Elly De La Cruz upstaged Aaron…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[931,8598,5243,591,17747,1582,276,10595,5048,10615,5821,10614,6367,17746,1709,17745,13821,2961,224,5337,11365,942,635,2228,50,1539,450,950,10596,62,1458,17744,6373,10600,2386,636],"class_list":["post-18696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-and","tag-anthony","tag-anthony-volpe","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-hall-of-fame-and-museum","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cruz","tag-de","tag-elly","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-fame","tag-fanduel","tag-francona","tag-hall","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-museum","tag-neutral","tag-new","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-news","tag-of","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-reds","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-terry","tag-terry-francona","tag-volpe","tag-yankees","tag-york"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114754616179937117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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