Rockies third baseman alertly turned one out into two when he let a Bradley Zimmer pop-up drop in the bottom of the seventh inning. Edwin Encarnacion walked to start the inning and Zimmer followed up with a weakly hit pop-up near the pitcher’s mound. Noticing that Zimmer didn’t run, Arenado let the ball touch the ground, then picked it up and fired to second for one out. D.J. LeMahieu whipped it around to first base to complete the twin killing.
There’s just something about Zimmer that makes me think we’re not going to get a bunch of angry columns about his lack of effort. The Indians went on to win 4-1 with a four-run bottom of the ninth inning. Yan Gomes hit a walk-off three-run homer.
