Well, one thing is for certain: The St. Louis Cardinals paid attention to all the baserunning drills in spring training.
It was amazing to watch that play out in real time. The Pirates simply had no clue how to handle it.
With Paul Goldschmidt at the plate with two outs and the bases loaded in the fourth inning of Tuesday’s game, he hit a sharp grounder to short — which should have ended the inning. But keep an eye on what Nolan Gorman did on the base path. Instead of slowing down to slide, Gorman kept running through the bag at full speed. This led to both a safe call at second base, and it amazingly distracted Pirates second baseman Yu Chang.
