I don't understand why people think Rendon was being lazy on that misplay. Rendon deals with grounders like that all the freaking time at 3B and knows not to assume a ball is foul until it's called foul. If he had really thought it was a foul ball he would've gloved it and not even tried to transfer it to the bare hand. He does that all the time. Instead he was going for the throw to 1B but he fumbled it out of his glove. He freaked up what should've been an easy play. This was not a player not trying. This was a misplay. And for those who are nagging about the ball being foul, even if it was, the umpire was doing the Nats a favor by giving them an easy free out. If you look at the replay from the left field camera, the runner was probably 3 feet from home plate when the ball entered Rendon's glove. All he had to do was make the throw to get the easy out. And that's what he was trying to do before he freaked it up. I'm sure if he had finished the play successfully none of the whiners about the umpire would've naged about it. Or better yet, if Rendon completes the easy play and the umpire calls it foul, those same motherfreakers who naged about the ball being foul would be nagging that the umpire robbed the Nats out of an out.
Rendon was tonight's biggest offender with that misplay. If he doesn't freak that up Strasburg takes a no hitter into the 7th and probably pitches 8 scoreless frames. But then again, that would've gotten us nothing more than an extra innings loss because this freaking useless team had no plans to score runs tonight.
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