John Kruk offered the primary nice announcer’s jinx of the younger MLB season.
The Phillies analyst talked about how Cincinnati’s Spencer Steer had not but hit a grand slam in his profession when the utilityman stepped to the plate within the tenth inning with the bases loaded Monday evening.
“No grand slams for Spencer Steer, let’s hope that continues,” Kruk stated.
Moments later, catastrophe ensued — and Nick Castellanos wasn’t even concerned.
“The two-1, fly ball, left discipline, fairly properly hit, [Whit] Merrifield going again, it’s … gone. A grand slam for Spencer Steer,’” Phillies play-by-play man Tom McCarthy stated after Steer’s grand slam proved the distinction in Cincinnati’s 6-3 win. “And the Reds have busted it open within the tenth, they’re on prime, 6-2.”
Announcers are in damned-if-they-do, damned-if-they-don’t conditions with potential jinxes, and there are many instances when a potential jinx doesn’t come to fruition.
However Kruk didn’t have that luck within the sequence opener at Residents Financial institution Park.
Because the display screen confirmed how Steer entered the sport hitting .300 in his profession with the bases juiced, however with no lengthy balls in stated spot, he relayed that info to the viewer.
Connor Brogdon had walked two batters to load the bases with no outs earlier than a 92-mph fastball caught manner an excessive amount of of the plate in a 2-1 depend.
Steer made him pay with a 383-foot blast, his first of the season, to ship the Phillies to their third loss in 4 video games, all at house.
With the grand slam, Steer is now hitting .364 (4-for-11) with a 1.098 OPS and 10 RBIs with the bases loaded in his profession.
Cincinnati is now 3-1 after a second straight recreation involving late heroics.
The Reds trailed the Nationals by two runs coming into the ninth inning Sunday earlier than tying the sport with a two-run shot after which strolling it off within the ninth on a solo homer of their 6-5 win.
