Roberto Pérez is a great base runner, I’ve always said that. No, really, since the first words I wrote on Let’s Go Tribe, I’ve always said that. Roberto Pérez may not be fast (he “doesn’t have a second gear”, as his own third base coach put it), but he is as intelligent as they come when it comes to working his way around the bases.
Tonight Bebo’s combination of slow speed and high awareness manifested itself in a triple, followed by a swipe of home on a wild pitch. It was a glorious sequence of events, none of which looked pretty in the typical sense, but all of which worked.