bloop
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I know he’s blaming himself for the current bumblings—“It starts with me”—but I don’t want to see him scrambling from my defense in a playoff game, flipping some bloop pass that ricochets off the back of a referee’s head and into the gentle manicured paws of Travis Kelce in the end zone.
But Jack Dreyer managed to get two outs with the bases loaded and Blake Treinen finished the game by giving up just a bloop single in the ninth.
From Los Angeles Times
That was followed by a bloop single from Mookie Betts, who reached base three times to continue his subtle turnaround since moving to the leadoff spot.
From Los Angeles Times
Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman both hit the midway point mired in extended slumps — though Freeman contributed a couple times Sunday, lining an RBI double in the fourth inning before putting the Dodgers back in front in the 11th with a bloop single that dropped in center.
From Los Angeles Times
While the left-hander stranded a runner at second base he inherited in the eighth, three ninth-inning singles from the Brewers tied the score, culminating with a broken-bat, bloop single from Vaughn that made it 2-2.
From Los Angeles Times
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