Tag: Alec Bohm

MLB fans roasted the Phillies for their atrocious baserunning on a 10th-inning double play

What were Bryce Harper and Alec Bohm doing here?

The Philadelphia Phillies might want to work on their fundamentals a bit after this one.

Sunday’s game between the Phillies and Pittsburgh Pirates was a frustrating watch for the Philly faithful. The Phillies continued to make mistake after mistake over the course of the game, which allowed the Pirates to walk it off 6-4 in the 10th inning. Trea Turner and Edmundo Sosa collided on an infield pop up for an error. Manager Rob Thomson pulled pitcher Cristopher Sanchez after five innings with 73 pitches and no hits. And worst of all, Bryce Harper and Alec Bohm made egregious baserunning errors in the 10th inning of a tied game.

With Bohm and Harper at second and third respectively, Turner skied a ball out to deep right field. Harper was set to take off for home, but Henry Davis made a great read on the ball to get it into the catcher. Instead of trying for home, however, Harper stopped partway down the base path, causing Bohm to get caught in a rundown on his way to third.

Eventually, Harper did try for home, but was easily thrown out to end the brutal double play.

It feels like the Phillies have been one of the MLB leaders in TOOTBLANs this year, and this blunder is no doubt at the top of the list. Here’s how MLB fans reacted to the Phillies’ absolutely awful base running on this double play.

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Alec Bohm smoked a first-pitch home run after Bryce Harper passed some advice from the dugout

What did Bryce Harper say to Alec Bohm here?

Bryce Harper is having an impact on the Philadelphia Phillies home run hitters even when he’s not hitting them himself.

On Tuesday, the Phillies jumped out to a second inning 4-0 lead over the Houston Astros in Game 3 of the World Series. Harper got things going once again with a two-run shot off of Lance McCullers Jr. to open the scoring for the Phillies in the first, whipping Philadelphia fans into a frenzy.

After his mammoth home run, Harper then called over Alec Bohm — who was on deck at the time — to talk shop. The inning ended before Bohm got up to bat, but whatever Harper said to him clearly worked after the infielder smoked a first pitch leadoff home run in the second.

Here’s how Harper’s chat with Bohm went down in the bottom of the first.

It’s hard to say if McCullers was tipping pitches and Harper told Bohm what to look out for, but the Phillies clearly did their due diligence in scouting the Astros pitcher prior to Tuesday’s game.

As for what Harper said to Bohm? We’ll likely never know!

All right then, keep your secrets!

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Alec Bohm apologizes to Phillies fans after lip-readers spotted him saying ‘I [expletive] hate this place’

He did apologize!

It was a a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad night for Alec Bohm.

Monday ended with a win for the Philadelphia Phillies, but for the third baseman, he struggled in the field before cameras caught him saying something that went VERY viral thanks to lip-readers on Twitter.

Bohm appeared to say, “I [expletive] hate this place” after Phillies fans gave him an extremely sarcastic cheer after he made a routine play at third for an out, something he failed to do when he committed three errors against the New York Mets.

But he did apologize after the game. Let’s break it all down:

Replays of the Alec Bohm game-winning slide show he was definitely not safe

Not great!

Was Alec Bohm safe on a slide into home that ended up being the game-winning run on a sac fly that led to a Philadelphia Phillies 7-6 win over the Atlanta Braves on Sunday night?

According to umpires and a replay review, he was. Phillies manager Joe Girardi thought Bohm’s big toe touched the corner of the plate.

Since the game ended, however, MLB fans have pored over the replays themselves and … yeah, it doesn’t look like any part of Bohm’s cleat ended up touching home.

Yes, this is just how it is with umpires and we have to accept that. It was a bang-bang play that could have gone either way, and the evidence the umps saw might not have been definitive enough to overturn the call.

But check these out and see if you agree it should have been overturned:

Yeah … um. No wonder you have people like ESPN’s Buster Olney saying stuff like this:

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Braves’ Dansby Swanson calls out Atlanta fans for reaction to horrible Alec Bohm call

“It just can’t happen, and it never needs to happen again.”

It has been established that Alec Bohm being called safe on the slide at home — both in the moment and upon replay review — to give the Philadelphia Phillies a win over the Atlanta Braves on Sunday night was the wrong call.

Slow motion replays that are all over Twitter show Bohm didn’t touch home plate with any part of his cleat, which led to Braves fans at Truist Park to throw trash on to the field in protest.

Braves shortstop Dansby Swanson took some time after the game to address the fans and strongly called them out for their behavior:

“It’s an embarrassing representation of our city because I know being from here, that’s not how we act,” he said, adding that he noticed kids in the front row of the stadium were in danger with the debris being tossed. “It just can’t happen, and it never needs to happen again.”

Well said, and exactly right. Sure, it was a bad call. But don’t throw trash on to the field.

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Phillies Alec Bohm was called safe at home on controversial game-winning play, and Braves fans were not happy

Safe by a toe… or not.

It’s been some time since baseball had a major blown call controversy, but Sunday night’s game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves delivered. This time, it’s Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm at the center of controversy on a sacrifice fly ball that gave Philadelphia the 7-6 lead and the win.

With one out remaining in the top of the ninth, and Bohm on third, Didi Gregorius hit a short ball out to Marcell Ozuna in left field. As the ball was caught, Bohm tagged from third as Ozuna threw back home to catcher Travis d’Arnaud, causing a bang-bang play to happen at home plate, wherein Bohm was called safe.

After a lengthy review, and various angles shown, the umpires ruled Bohm safe at home, causing uproar from the fans at Truist Park and across social media.

While Bohm clearly beats out d’Arnaud’s tag, it is pretty plain to see that he doesn’t touch home plate on any of the various angles shown.

And yet! The call was made and the Phillies took the 7-6 lead, and the win. Braves manager Brian Snitker was clearly not pleased at the events that unfolded in the game-deciding play.

Social media was just as brutal, and even the Braves own Twitter account got in on the heat.

Phillies manager Joe Girardi, of course, took the viewpoint that Bohm’s toe was able to tap home plate, while Braves pitcher Drew Smyly was adamant that the third baseman was out at home.

In all likelihood, had Bohm been originally called out on the play and it had gone to review, he would have been out and the inning would have been over. In the end, however, the umpires made their decision and the baseball world was not happy about it.

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The Mets had the most unfortunate, but on brand, collapse possible against the Phillies

Never change, Mets.

New year, same New York Mets it seems. In the Mets first game of the 2021 MLB season on Monday, New York was holding onto a 2-0 lead over the Philadelphia Phillies in the bottom of the eighth before the team committed the most on brand collapse you’ll see.

Jacob deGrom held the Phillies to just three hits and no runs through six innings, but was pulled after 77 pitches as the game was handed over to the Mets bullpen. Unfortunately for New York and deGrom, the Mets went full Mets in the bottom of the eighth inning, not only allowing the Phillies to tie the game but also take a 5-2 lead.

It started with the bases loaded and Aaron Loup on the mound for the Mets facing Bryce Harper with one out. Loup hit Harper with a pitch, sending a runner in to score to put the game within one for the Phillies. Following Harper, J.T. Realmuto singled with a hit through the infield to tie the game at 2-2 with the bases still loaded.

Then, disaster struck. Alec Bohm hit what seemed to be a routine ball to third baseman Luis Guillorme, but the throw home hit catcher James McCann in the glove and bounced behind the plate, allowing Rhys Hoskins and Harper to score for the 4-2 Phillies lead.

Yep, that happened.

The Phillies scored once more in the bottom of the eighth, eventually winning the game 5-3 after coming from behind on some pure Mets shenanigans to improve to 4-0 on the season.

As for deGrom’s gem of a start, well…

Unfortunate stuff right there.

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