The San Francisco Giants was up to the San Diego Padres 12-7 in extra innings Thursday night after a top-of-the-10th disaster that featured a Tyler Rogers implosion and an embarrassing Gabe Kapler brain fart.
Rogers, the reducer who was illuminated by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the season opener, was charged with 5 earned runs and failed to make an out in the 10th after retiring the side in the 9th. His ERA on the young season now stand at 20.25.
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” That was simply a mental screw-up on my part,” he informed reporters. “Ive been around the video game for a long time and I simply had a lapse in memory in the dugout. We were talking about a lot of various things and I popped out there and went and got him and certainly that was simply a mental error on my part.
Umpires then ordered Tyler Rogers to re-take the mound against Padres catcher Austin Hedges, who immediately laid down an effective squeeze bunt that brought in another run.
Kapler had a comparable bullpen accident throughout his very first season as supervisor of the Philadelphia Phillies, when he got in touch with a reducer who hadnt even been warming up to get in a video game, and was consequently chewed out by the MLB.
” That was simply a psychological error on my part,” he informed reporters. “Ive been around the game for a very long time and I just had a lapse in memory in the dugout. We were talking about a great deal of various things and I popped out there and went and got him and undoubtedly that was simply a mental error on my part. I simply wished to own that. Its 100 percent my duty.”.
After the game, Kapler took duty for the “error.”.
With Rogers having a hard time, Kapler strolled on the field and relocated to change him with right-handed-reliever Rico Garcia, however seemingly did not notice the reality that pitching coach Andrew Bailey had actually just completed his own check out to the mound. Under MLB rules, if a pitcher receives two mound gos to in the same inning during an offered at-bat, the pitcher should deal with the batter until the batter is retired or reaches base.
