Joey Gallo‘s first sacrifice fly in more than 1,300 plate appearances for his career helped Shelby Miller get his first big league win in two years.
The problem for the Texas Rangers was needing their closer after leading by nine runs, then having to replace Jose Leclerc to finish off the Houston Astros.StarTribune.com
Gallo’s first sac fly in plate appearance No. 1,337 helped him match his career best of five RBIs and Shawn Kelley came on for the faltering Leclerc to get the final out in an 11-10 victory over the Astros on Sunday.
I would not have guessed Joey Gallo would lack for sacrifice flies. For his career, 49.9% of his balls in play were rated fly balls. Thirty percent of those were home runs, and about 10% were infield flies. That still leaves a large number of fly balls capable of moving a runner from third to home.
One problem might be the Rangers offense. Gallo came up just 73 times with a man on third and less that two outs. The second problem is that in that situation he collected 15 walks, while he struck out 25 times. So in 55% of potential SF PAs, he didn’t even get the bat on the ball. Still, one might think that once those other PAs a ball would go deep and land in an outfielder’s glove.
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