No. 2010.10.10 · Wild Card Era
Three Errors by Conrad
In Game 3 of the 2010 NLDS, Brooks Conrad made three errors. The last one, on a two-out grounder in the ninth, let the Giants take a lead they did not give back.
Brooks Conrad with the Rays on July 24, 2012. This is not the three errors in the 2010 National League Division Series.
Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
October 10, 2010, Game 3 at Turner Field, attendance 53,284. The Braves and Giants had split the first two games, each of them decided by a run. Brooks Conrad was at second base because Chipper Jones and Martín Prado were out for the season. He was 30, a journeyman, and he had already been charged with errors late in the regular season. In this game he bobbled a grounder in the first, and that one did not score. In the second he dropped a popup, and an unearned run did.
The Braves led, 2–1, into the ninth on Eric Hinske's homer. With two out, San Francisco tied the game against Craig Kimbrel. Buster Posey then hit a grounder that went under Conrad's glove. Freddy Sánchez scored. The Giants led, 3–2. Brian Wilson finished the ninth. Kimbrel was the losing pitcher. Conrad had three errors, tying a postseason record for a game, and he said afterward that it was completely embarrassing.
The series was not over. San Francisco won Game 4 the next night and the Division Series in four. The three errors are still the picture of Game 3, and the ninth is the one that changed the score. The first of them did not. A record of three is not the same fact as three runs.
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