Gaby Sanchez blasts Marlins after 5 errors

Give Gaby Sanchez credit.

It would have been easy to shrug off Friday’s awful performance against the Mets since it was just the 13th game of the spring.

But Sanchez was furious after the game, ripping his team’s performance for the five errors and mentally detached manner they played while getting drubbed 10-0 by NY.

“Embarrassed. Awful. Terrible,” were words Sanchez used again and again.

SS Hanley Ramirez dropped an easy pop then air-mailed a throw, RF Bryan Peterson missed the cutoff man and made two throwing errors, and CF Scott Cousins got in on the action by letting a fly ball pop out of his glove.

It was ironic that the defensive implosion took place a couple hours after manager Edwin Rodriguez had cited the defense as something he thought was a highlight of the early spring.

That got washed away Friday, but Rodriguez is not ready to hit the panic button.

He called the game the worst of the spring, by far, but said the Marlins need to learn from it.

Sanchez is showing good leadership for still being a relative youngster. Hopefully that will rub off on some of his teammates who did not seem too concerned after participating in the meltdown.

To be fair, there is still a lot of spring left, but the Marlins need to come to play with more focus than they managed Friday or there will be more days that will leave Sanchez shaking his head and using the word “embarrassed” multiple times



(sun-sentinel.com)