{"id":651867,"date":"2026-03-30T04:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/651867\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T04:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:54:22","slug":"why-would-tim-leiper-the-mets-third-base-coach-send-francisco-lindor-trying-to-score-from-first-base-on-juan-sotos-double-in-the-10th-inning-to-get-thrown-out-at-home-on-the-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/651867\/","title":{"rendered":"Why would Tim Leiper, the Mets&#8217; third base coach, send Francisco Lindor, trying to score from first base on Juan Soto&#8217;s double in the 10th inning, to get thrown out at home on the Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why would Tim Leiper, the Mets&#8217; third base coach, send Francisco Lindor,\u00a0trying to score from first base on Juan Soto&#8217;s double in the 10th inning, to get thrown out at home on the Pirates&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dkpittsburghsports.com\/team\/site-stuff\/feed?page=0&amp;content=pirates-mets-henry-davis-avoid-sweep-mlb-recap-column-dk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brilliant relay<\/a> &#8230; when Lindor represented the tying run AND there were no outs?<\/p>\n<p>Lindor blamed himself: &#8220;I think I would&#8217;ve scored. I took a little bad of a route. I&#8217;m on board with Leip sending me there because we have talked about being aggressive. He made the right call.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Counter-point: He did not. There were no outs. If that ball&#8217;s fielded cleanly out there &#8212; and it was, by Oneil Cruz &#8212; that&#8217;s got to be a stop sign 100 times out of 100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why would Tim Leiper, the Mets&#8217; third base coach, send Francisco Lindor,\u00a0trying to score from first base on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,10,7405],"class_list":["post-651867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-new-york-mets","tag-baseball","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-pirates","tag-site-stuff"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}