Roberto Petagine

Three bad plays last night:

1. Miller's laboring, and he finally gets the batter to hit a slow grounder to first. Petagine starts to break the wrong way, tries to correct himself, and ends up letting the ball go through his legs and under his glove. Another run scores, and the game is tied.

2. Kevin Mench hits a single to right field but stumbles out of the box. Millar, who is fielding the ball, sees an opportunity and fires the ball to first. Petagine isn't even paying attention, turns around at the last minute and awkwardly fields the ball. I know it's not exactly a routine play, but he was clearly not paying attention to where the ball was.

3. Foul pop up to the first base side, and Petagine goes after it and then...completely loses sight of it. Thankfully Graffanino comes swooping in to save poor Roberto's ass.

Throw in an inning ending, rally killing double play early on in the game, when it was still competitive, and Petagine's not exactly lighting the world on fire. Somehow I think Ortiz would embarass himself less out there, but maybe they don't want to take him out of his comfort zone. I say, send Roberto back to AAA and find a way to make a trade for Daubach. Dauber, I miss you.