Horrendous Base Running by Nationals Leads to Double Play

all right everyone we had this wacky play in the Yankees Nationals game yesterday we're going to break it down there's so many things happening in this play Let's talk about it give me your thoughts in the comments section below so we have Runners at first and second we have nobody out and we get a ball that is crushed to center field judge is going to go back on it he's not able to get there Gallow tags at second now we've got two run is almost at third we're going to hold Gallow up here the ball comes in now we've got a run down between second and third now Gallow goes home we throw the ball home now we're running Gallow back we throw to third we tag him out now we've got this guy hung up between third and short now the guy goes back to first we tag him out holy hell and we get a double play on a ball that was hit for 400 ft so let's break this down there's so much stuff to cover okay let's go back to the beginning of the play and here is the general rule when you're a runner at second base if there's nobody out and there's a Fly ball that's taggable we're going to tag up so that we can move to third base if you're the runner at first base you are typically going to mirror that Runner so if he goes to tag up well then you can go and tag up if he ends up getting off of the base well then you can get off the base so we pretty much mirror the runner ahead of us so again that is a general rule so the ball is hit and the ball is hit in the air and so the first thing you see Gallow do is he goes back to tag but you'll see the runner at first doesn't mirror him he starts to get off of the bag now this is where we get into a little bit of the confusing part because if you watch how the ball is hit and you watch Judge and I know we're at a really high view here but judge is sprinting back and there comes a point where you can tell that judge isn't going to catch this ball and if somehow he did catch it he would literally catch it and smash into the wall or you'd have to make some miraculous catch where he Dives and catches it the probability of him catching it is extremely low on this so although the general rule says to go back and tag with nobody out and a ball that's taggable for me Gallow has to be able to read this a little bit better and say the chances of Judge catching this are almost zero and so what I would have done differently is I would have gotten off of the bag and then if somehow judge Dove caught it smashed into the wall I still would have time to run back to the bag tag up and then move up for me there's no real reason and again I know it is the typical rule but there are always some exceptions to the rule and I think for this we don't need to be standing on the bag and tagging up he's almost standing there like this is a a Fly ball that judge is camped under but he's on a dead Sprint you can see his numbers and again you know that he probably isn't going to catch this ball and that's what I think the runner at first was reading I think he was saying there's no way judge is catching this so I'm not going to tag up I'm going to get off so the way that he's seeing the play and the way that he's seeing the play is different so now when the ball gets over his head and bounces up against the wall you can see that Gallow is just starting to run and judge is already picking the ball up off of the wall right here and now we have this runner at first is almost going to pass Gallow and because Gallow did that well now the ball comes into the cut off man and Gallow who isn't exactly Fleet of foot at this point we're gonna have to hold him up but we can't really hold him up because we've got a runner right here and also the batter Runner you can see has already moved his way all the way up to Second so now we've got three runners occupying two bases and I'm going to try to zoom in here see if I can zoom in a little bit on the third base coach but you can see he's it looks like he's yelling at this guy to go back go back he's like giving this waving he's got his left hand up here to get Yow and he's waving his right hand and I think he's saying go back what are you doing go back and now he's at a point here where he's got to stop Gallow he's got his left hand up he's stopping Gallow and then he just turns right here and he walks away he goes what the hell right so he knows that we're in big trouble and he just he just turns and starts to just walk away he's like I don't let me close my eyes I don't want to watch this so things are already going poorly but then it gets worse so now Gallow slides in the third we've got this Runner caught up between second and third we throw the ball to the middle now we get him in a rund down well now Gala is going to break for home because he says well if I just stand here they're just going to run this guy all the way over here and and tag him out so I'm going to try to to run home maybe we get lucky and we get a bad throw here well we don't we get a perfect throw right on the money so this for me at this point right here okay we're in big trouble especially at the major league level we're not we're not getting out of this rund down so what should happen at this point is this Runner should stay here this Runner should stay here we're essentially giving Gallow up and what the Yankees would do is they would just run him all the way back to the base so they wouldn't even need to throw it they just run him back this guy could stay here again this guy stays here we tag Gallow out now if you really want to get creative which probably isn't going to happen at the big league level but at a lower level you could I would have two guys standing here make this guy run them all the way back they're going to say two guys are on the bag run them back and then once Gallow gets back and you have two guys standing on the bag then what you could do is when the catcher goes to tag Gallow this Runner right here could then Sprint back this way and get the rundown start all over again and hope that you get them to screw up at the big league level what typically happens is this guy's going to stay here this guy's going to stay here they're going to tag Gallow out and say you know what worst case scenario now at least we have second and third with one out yes it was a show but things could have been worse and this is where they get worse because this Runner again that's at third instead of just staying there he now says oh I'm going to run back here and you can see this third base coach we got to zoom in on him again right this guy this guy's having a bad day I feel bad for him right here he goes he put both hands up he goes no why are you running like now he's pissed again so he was pissed and now he's pissed again cuz he wanted him to just stay just stay there right you can see him putting his hand up he knows his right ha like what what you why where are you going so now they throw the ball to third they tag out Gallow but now we've got two Runners that are about to occupy second base so now they start to run him back to second now this guy is going to start to run back to first so we run him there okay he's going to make it back to second now we throw the ball over here and we tag this guy out and we've got a double play so that is quite embarrassing at the major league level and I know there's a lot of stuff going on right there but hopefully I broke that down well enough for what the Nationals could have done and should have done but I'll also give credit to the Yankees because they did a really good job if we go back here for a second so this ball smashed over his head and you can see the Yankees set up a really good tandem relay so you see the short stop and the second basem are both going out here right so you've got the short stop leading the way you've got the second basement trailing they set up four you've got to give credit to judge who picks the ball up off the wall and throws a strike right to the first cut off man who moves his feet catches the ball and gets the ball in to home so that's a really good job of relaying that ball on the money again a double cut or tandem relay whatever you want to call it they get the ball in quickly to home they had the first baseman right here Trail the runner so everything is set up really nicely for the Yankees and then again they do a good job of completing this right you've got kind of Mayhem going on on the bases but they're doing a good job of running guys back putting the ball in the money good timing they don't just settle for one out they move on to the next two Runners right they've got the right fielder in here on the rundown so they've got everybody doing something they do a really good job of collecting two outs on a play that they should never have collected two outs on and that's got to be the most frustrating thing ever if I'm the manager if I've got first and second and I get a ball hit over the center Fielder's head and not only do we not score a run if we didn't score a run I'd be like what the hell but we got a double play out of it like I might just leave I might pack up and go hit the showers I might get ejected on the next play I might come out and just yell about something and say please throw me out of here I can't watch this anymore you're gone go to the clubhouse take a shower we'll see you tomorrow but anyways let me know what you think about this play in the comment section below subscribe to the channel hit the notification Bell give it a thumbs up all that good stuff and we'll talk to you later