We know Gordon wasn't thinking extra bases out of the box, which likely cost him a little bit of time on the back end, as did his slight stumble rounding second. We know Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford, the relay man, has a strong arm. We know Gordon moves well he's an AL Gold Glove Award-winning outfielder, after all. I don't buy that all." So how can we split that difference? We'll give it a shot. Joe Posnanski, however, looked at the same data and came to the opposite conclusion, writing on his blog: "That would mean if that play happened nine times, Gordon would score on three of them. Over at, Nate Silver estimated that Gordon would have needed to be safe 30 percent of the time for sending him to have been the correct call, and Silver thought the right move was to wave him home. I didn't want to go the whole offseason with Alex getting thrown out halfway to home plate." "Believe me," Jirschele said, "I wanted to send him. The Giants won, 3-2, dodging the potential disaster that loomed after Gregor Blanco booted Gordon's drive to left-center and left fielder Juan Perez fumbled the ball as he tried to pick it up at the wall. Salvador Perez popped up against Madison Bumgarner to end the game and the Series, and Gordon was stranded on third.
#ALEX GORDON GAME 1 HOME RUN SERIES#
We'll never know what would have happened if Kansas City third-base coach Mike Jirschele had sent Alex Gordon home with two outs in the ninth inning of Wednesday night's World Series Game 7.
The beauty - or the agony, if you're a Royals fan - is that we'll never know.
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