Running a few errands today before heading to Pittsburgh, but I was listening to WFAN and have to check in with a random thought. Enough with saying Carlos Beltran should have caught Hanley Ramirez's fly ball and saved Billy Wagner on Friday night.
I'm hearing Joe Benigno go on and on about how he should have reeled that ball in. I don't know if Joe was there or not, but I was, and that ball was absolutely crushed. It was not a fly ball. It was a line-drive rocket straight over Beltran's head, the most difficult play possible for a centerfielder. Not to mention Beltran had just missed 16 days with a strained oblique muscle and that was his first game back on a rainy and unseasonably cold night.
I'm not in the habit of making excuses for Beltran -- he's had a down year after last year's MVP caliber season -- but lay off him on this one.