Managing Baseball for Dummies

In the sixth inning of tonight's game bewtween the Marlins and Phillies Josh Johnson, the Marlins starting pitcher, doubled into the left center gap. The next batter, Hanley Ramirez, is the Marlins best hitter and had two hits tonight. Of course Fredi Gonzalez decides to sacrifice bunt, giving up a precious out in a 2-0 game, and the bunt goes down and the pitcher fields it cleanly getting the slow running pitcher at third. I don't even want to go into how stupid sacrifice bunting is in general, but even if you think it is an acceptable use of an out to do it with your best hitter to move your pitcher to third with zero outs and the heart of the lineup coming up is indefensible.

I watch baseball most every night and it seems that conventional wisdom reigns supreme in almost every clubhouse at least in the National League. Conventional wisdom is wrong almost every time, and cost the Marlins most likely at least one run in this game. It is still going on, so it is yet to be seen if it will play into the final outcome.

EDIT: They did in fact win 8-2, and it did not change my opinion that it was a ridiculous strategy.