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But RRS' BABIP trends will still be there after we're done arguing. :- )
It's true that with a little luck, RRS coulda been out of the inning.  Grant you that.  This is true with most rallies, however...  let me know the next time you see a 4-run inning that might not have been over if a ball had been hit 10 feet in a different direction...
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We continue to compare this to shooting 3-pointers in basketball in the 4th quarter.  You're just tired enough to miss.  It doesn't show in velocity of the basketball, doesn't show in mechanics - you're just too fatigued to feather the ball.  There isn't a way in the world you can prove the shooter is tired, except that he's missing...
RRS' stuff looked mushy to me in the 6th, but will cheerfully admit that's nothing more than my own opinion.
The last AB, where Maier gleefully kept the bat glued to his shoulder until RRS finally dared to try a heater, and then BP'ed it into the corner, was telling.