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Snake Bytes, 7/29: Close, but no closer

Related Topics: Torey Lovullo, Eugenio Suárez

[Dbacks.com] ‘That’s why you play 27 outs’: Sweep eludes D-backs in extras implosion - The pitch that Bart hit was on the outside corner of the plate, but Seward didn’t elevate it as much as he wanted. Lovullo, though, would’ve preferred they pitch Bart more carefully with Jared Triolo on-deck. “I think if you slice it up in a perfect vacuum, you don't want to attack Bart,” Lovullo said. “You want to attack the guy on-deck. So maybe that’s something that we need to make a little bit more clear but he tried to attack him and it was the tying run that was on base and he didn’t want to put the go-ahead run on base.