Daily News | Bryce Harper and the Phillies are making bunts cool again
ATLANTA — It was just Matt Vierling’s fifth postseason at-bat but it doesn’t take a degree in October Baseball to understand the importance of an extra 90 feet.edged Atlanta in the opener of their National League Division Series. “We won 7-6 so you can tell that it meant a lot to get every run that we could get.”That’s why he ended his fifth postseason at-bat with a perfectly placed sacrifice bunt — the first of his big-league career — to move Jean Segura to third.
The Phils weren’t the only team to fade the bunt this season as Atlanta finished the season with just one sacrifice bunt and waited until Game 161 to drop it. The Dodgers laid down three, the Cardinals had five, and the major-league average was 13. The Phillies have used four sacrifice bunts in three postseason games after laying down just six over 162 regular season games.
The game has changed. Not only are pitchers not hitting but teams seem to rely more and more each season on home runs, and small ball has become almost extinct. But this is October, when every pitch is magnified and an extra 90 feet in the third inning could decide a game. Harper’s bunt moved J.T. Realmuto to second after Realmuto started the third by reaching on an error. Harper said he was trying to bunt for a hit but it didn’t work. Nick Castellanos followed with an RBI double and Harper’s bunt helped.
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