A walk-off pickoff? Bailey’s elite pop time seals key victory

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Published 02.08.2023
A walk-off pickoff? Bailey’s elite pop time seals key victory
Patrick Bailey’s pickoff carries Giants to win

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The file books will present that Giants southpaw Sean Manaea notched his first profession save on Tuesday night time in a 4-3 win towards the D-backs. However, the ultimate out got here courtesy of catcher Patrick Bailey’s proper arm relatively than Manaea’s left.

With Geraldo Perdomo on first base with two outs after singling earlier within the ninth inning towards Ryan Walker, Christian Walker stepped to the plate with an opportunity to tie the sport or put Arizona forward. But Bailey, who entered as a defensive substitute within the eighth, took the chance out of Walker’s fingers.

The rookie catcher got here up throwing after Manaea’s third pitch of the at-bat — a fastball excessive and out of doors to the right-handed-hitting Christian Walker — and fired a laser to first base from his knees to select off Perdomo and clinch San Francisco’s win. Fittingly, it was LaMonte Wade Jr. who swiped the tag on Perdomo, two innings after the primary baseman homered to interrupt a 3-3 tie.

Bailey’s pop time of 1.39 seconds on the play was the quickest by a catcher on a profitable pickoff at first base beneath Statcast monitoring (since 2015).

“I think Perdomo, it looked like he was getting off [first base], it looked like he was trying to steal,” Bailey stated in describing the play. “It’s simply clearly a extremely aggressive baserunner and a extremely aggressive baserunning crew. LaMonte, the pitch earlier than, we each sort of made eye contact, like, ‘Yeah, this is a good time to pick off.’ And it labored out effectively.

“It’s definitely cool to finish a game like that.”