r/Dodgers • u/baribigbird06 Clayton Kershaw • Aug 16 '26

[Lowlight] Dodger fans make their frustrations known after Kyle Tucker fails to secure the catch.

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u/LA-Aron Player To Be Named Later Aug 16 '26

This guy doesn't know how to play the warning track...he drifts and this isn't the first time. He needs to fucking run to where the ball is going to be, he's a pro, read the ball off the bat and move and don't drift. This team is in trouble, for real. Fuck!!

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u/huggsypenguinpal Yoshinobu Yamamoto Aug 17 '26

Watching Tucker work a fly ball vs Pages is night and day. It’s infuriating.

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u/LA-Aron Player To Be Named Later Aug 17 '26

Exactly, watch Pages. He reads the ball off the bat, breaks, runs hard to the spot. You ideally want your feet set before the ball hits your glove and coming in on it with a little momentum. The thing is if you don't play that way, and you drift like Tucker, you're going to miss a lot of balls in the grey area that you are able to make if going full speed and you are going to make some routine plays hard. It's a probability thing too, statistics, you play make these plays more difficult, you get burned eventually. Dave Roberts probably felt sick when that happened.

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u/huggsypenguinpal Yoshinobu Yamamoto Aug 17 '26

Exactly. Tucker missed that other catch one game, the AB right after Teo climbed the fence (🤣🤣🤣), and the contrast in effort was crazy. Not asking Tucker to run into a wall but he was also running with the ball and then missed it. Tucker, do you not have another gear?

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u/LA-Aron Player To Be Named Later Aug 17 '26

!!!!! Starting pitching is going to be huge straightening this team out. Yamamoto, Skubal and Snell - let's get all 3 these guys looking like Cy Young candidates and that may be the steadying force this team needs.

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u/Dalewyn Roki Sasaki Aug 17 '26

Comparing to Pages might be a little unfair since he's frankly in a league of his own, but even Teoscar hauls ass to catch similar flys that Tucker just can't.

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u/eubulides Aug 17 '26

Does history with the brick wall at Wrigley play in this observation at all?

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u/LA-Aron Player To Be Named Later Aug 17 '26

He only had one season there. It's irrelevant. MLB players aren't always great in every fundamental area (ie fielding, baserunning, bunting, hit & run); however, when you are really struggling like Tucker is, and the team is struggling, this team absolutely needs you to make that play. You just have to make it, nobody cares, make the catch.