Why Blue Jays’ John Schneider didn’t pinch-run for Alejandro Kirk

Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider didn’t pinch-run for a player known to be one of the slower runners in baseball on Tuesday — and it ended up costing his team in a huge way.

With designated hitter Alejandro Kirk on third base and the Blue Jays trailing 5-3 in the eighth inning with one out, pinch-hitter Daulton Varsho flew out to Washington Nationals centre-fielder Jacob Young at Rogers Centre. The notoriously slow Kirk tagged up and was thrown out by Young — with the call confirmed after a challenge.

The Blue Jays ended up losing 5-4 as the team scored one run in the ninth after loading the bases with no out.

Afterward, Schneider said a short bench and the fact the Blue Jays were down by two were the main reasons he did not pinch-run for Kirk.

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Infielder Mason McCoy, called up from triple-A Buffalo on Tuesday, was on the bench. He has 23 stolen bases in the minors this year. Kirk has zero stolen bases in 303 career major-league games.

“We were a little short. Brandon (Belt) wasn’t available (because of back spasms). We had guys playing everywhere. (Cavan Biggio) at short, Davis (Schneider) at third (in the ninth inning), kind of a lot of moving parts (with Bo Bichette and Matt Chapman on the injured list.”

“Tying run, yeah, we would have had a runner there. Down by two, no.”

John Schneider said the possibility of the game going into extra innings also ran through his mind.

“You pinch-hit Varsh there, you’re looking to do damage and try to take the lead and clip a homer. The game goes a lot of different ways to where crazy (expletive) happens and you get into the 11th inning and you get into that spot and you want Kirky at the plate.

“Kind of a general rule of thumb (to not pinch-run if down by two). The odds of a medium depth fly ball with an average throwing outfielder and Kirky at third was probably last on my bingo card.”

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