Former Blue Jays bench coach Don Mattingly reveals World Series moment he wants back
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Former Toronto Blue Jays bench coach Don Mattingly revealed the World Series moment he'd like back in an interview on the Mayor's Office Podcast.
Former Blue Jays bench boss Don Mattingly joined Jon Heyman and Sean Casey on the Mayor's Office Podcast to discuss his season with Toronto, hitting philosophy, and what he would have done differently in a heartbreaking end in what was a great World Series.
Don Mattingly reveals what he and the coaching staff would've done differently on the IKF play
John Heyman asked Donnie Baseball if there was there anything in particular that stood out for him in game seven that he thought about later that could have been done differently.
"The one play, the IKF play, I think it's played properly because you got the bases loaded with one out. The infield is totally drawn in so you're not in a contact situation. You've got to at least freeze on a line drive. And if you really look at that video, Kirky is in the perfect spot, he's about a foot off the base like IKF, because of Varsho. He does pull the ball.
"So I say the one thing we may have missed, and I'd say it myself, Schneids, is that Varsho does not line out to third base. He does not hit line drives on that side of the field really, and so you can get a little bit more of a lead. But if it was a right-handed hitter, IKF is probably right where he should be. That's probably the one play you feel like hmmm if we really looked at that over again, and had a split second more time and said hey, we can be off further at third because Varsho is not going to line out to third. If he lines out to first we can get back, we have a little more time. So that's the one thing that you change, but not IKF's fault, it's probably all of our faults".
Here is the link for the full interview on the Mayor's Office Podcast.
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