Mookie Betts’ baserunning helped win a World Series; why don’t more teams stress it?

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“Three inches. The difference in a World Series.” — Mike Roberts. Mike Roberts is a long-standing coach, organizational baserunning coach, and author of two books about baserunning.

“It was the World Series-winning play.” — Dave Roberts. He is the manager of the 2020 Los Angeles Dodgers and also the owner of 243 regular season steals over his 10-year career. This includes one in Game 4 of 2004 ALCS. That earned him a place in the Red Sox Hall of Fame. ).

You can watch the replay of that play on YouTube: Mookie Betts at third base, Corey Seager at the plate, one out. It was the sixth inning in Game 6 of 2020 World Series. Two batters prior, the Dodgers were losing 1-0 against Blake Snell and his Rays. After Austin Barnes struck out, Nick Anderson relieved Snell and Betts doubled Barnes to move him to third. He would score on a wild pitch, tying the game and setting up Betts for his “World Series-winning” play.

Mookie Betts took off for home

It happened quickly: Mookie Betts ran for home after Seager hit a hopper to draw in Rays’ first baseman Ji Man Choi. He then backhanded the throw and made the short throw towards catcher Mike Zunino. Zunino took the catch and moved to tag Mookie Betts as he came down the line from third.

Mookie Betts won the throw and the Dodgers held a 2-1 lead. This was thanks to three shutout relief innings by Julio Urias and Brusdar Graterol, as well as an additional home run by Betts. The final score would be 3-1, giving the Dodgers their first title since the Reagan administration. Many believe that the most important story of the game was Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash’s decision not to allow Snell to be removed with a 1-0 lead following Barnes’ crucial sixth-inning single. But two years later, in an era when baserunning has become a lost art and the game’s basepaths often look as clogged and stagnant as the will-I-ever-get-off-it L.A. Freeway, it is Betts’ dash home that resonates as a model and a teaching moment. It serves as a point of reference for Mike Roberts, who works with the minor league Pirates players in Bradenton, Florida, in August heat.

“Watch Betts play, and what you see is a result of great concentration. And anticipation.” — Jeff Bagwell (Hall of Famer), one of the greatest baserunners of his time.

“It was the result of visualization.” — George Lombard (baserunning coach for the 2020 Dodgers and bench coach for the 2021-22 Tigers).

Lombard attributes his understanding of baserunning to his time with Mike Roberts. Mike Roberts attributes his own learning to his experience at the Kansas City Royals Baseball Academy during the 1970s. He once lived with Ron Washington. Dave Roberts frequently quotes Maury Wills, a Dodgers player.

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