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Video - Did Johnny Pesky hesitate?
16He hesitated quite a bit.6.25%1There was a slight hesitation.62.50%10Hard to say, but I don't think he hesitated.18.75%3He definitely didn't hesitate.12.50%2The video quality stinks. I can't tell.0.00%0Is Pesky the runner?0.00%0Tags: None
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It still looks like he hesitated to me. Maybe a half second."(Shoeless Joe Jackson's fall from grace is one of the real tragedies of baseball. I always thought he was more sinned against than sinning." -- Connie Mack
"I have the ultimate respect for Whitesox fans. They were as miserable as the Cubs and Redsox fans ever were but always had the good decency to keep it to themselves. And when they finally won the World Series, they celebrated without annoying every other fan in the country."--Jim Caple, ESPN (Jan. 12, 2011)
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Originally posted by Honus Wagner Rules View PostThe way I perceive the video is that as Pesky caught the ball from the outfield he first looked to third base then he turned towards home plate and threw the ball."(Shoeless Joe Jackson's fall from grace is one of the real tragedies of baseball. I always thought he was more sinned against than sinning." -- Connie Mack
"I have the ultimate respect for Whitesox fans. They were as miserable as the Cubs and Redsox fans ever were but always had the good decency to keep it to themselves. And when they finally won the World Series, they celebrated without annoying every other fan in the country."--Jim Caple, ESPN (Jan. 12, 2011)
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Originally posted by chicagowhitesox1173 View PostIf you look at it that way then he didn't hesitate but by checking the baserunner by Pesky in my opinion he did hesitate. I think Pesky was more surprised Slaughter kept going more than anything.Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls - it's more democratic.-Crash Davis
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Though it's a bit tough to make out, it looks to me like I see Pesky's profile looking at Slaughter as he's about to reach 3B. The ball wasn't near Pesky yet, but it looks like he saw or at least anticipated Slaughter's turn thru the bag and not stopping as he was in full flight. Pesky seemed to have double-cluthed ever so slightly prior to releasing the ball."Chuckie doesn't take on 2-0. Chuckie's hackin'." - Chuck Carr two days prior to being released by the Milwaukee Brewers
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I think Slaughter scores no matter what too. I don't see a play like this being glamorized in todays game either."(Shoeless Joe Jackson's fall from grace is one of the real tragedies of baseball. I always thought he was more sinned against than sinning." -- Connie Mack
"I have the ultimate respect for Whitesox fans. They were as miserable as the Cubs and Redsox fans ever were but always had the good decency to keep it to themselves. And when they finally won the World Series, they celebrated without annoying every other fan in the country."--Jim Caple, ESPN (Jan. 12, 2011)
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Originally posted by PVNICK View PostHesitate is too strong a word. There is a pause to calibrate nothing more from my point of view. Though that may just be parsing.Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls - it's more democratic.-Crash Davis
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I'm with those who say that there was a very slight pause- hesitation seems too strong a word to me. He seemed to be glancing toward third, then threw. This "hesitation', if that's what it was, was a small fraction of a second. I think Slaughter would have been safe in any case.
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Originally posted by Honus Wagner Rules View PostPesky had his back turned, he was facing the left fielder. He didn't know where Slaughter was and his first instinct was probably to check third base. Regardless, if Pesky hesitated or not I think Slaughter scores anyway.
In my estimation:
Caught the ball.
Looked at third with his arm cocked, partly into his throwing motion now, expecting the play to be at third then...
Oh crap, found Slaughter in the baseline, when trying to find him he natural lets the ball back down a little to load up again then...
Pivots and throws home.
Maybe Pesky couldn't hear his teammates telling him where the play was? I can't imagine the Red Sox not talking during the World Series.Last edited by bluesky5; 12-20-2012, 02:02 PM."No matter how great you were once upon a time — the years go by, and men forget,” - W. A. Phelon in Baseball Magazine in 1915. “Ross Barnes, forty years ago, was as great as Cobb or Wagner ever dared to be. Had scores been kept then as now, he would have seemed incomparably marvelous.”
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Maybe Pesky couldn't hear his teammates telling him where the play was? I can't imagine the Red Sox not talking during the World Series.
Quite an exaggeration though about Slaughter being "10 feet from home". It looked like he was about 10 feet from 3rd base when Pesky turned and looked.
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