Spencer Steer’s double erased by bad baserunning

Steer moved to third on Gavin Lux’s sacrifice, but couldn’t score the Reds’ first run of the game against the White Sox, 3-17 on the road this season, despite the fact that pitcher Jonathan Cannon slipped while fielding a chopper from Matt McLain. Steer retreated for third instead of heading home, and was thrown out at third by Cannon.

“Either you’re going on contact or you’re not,” Fanduel Sprots Network analyst and National Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin said. “Didn’t really look like he was going on contact. You see that little bit of hesitation. … That little bit of indecisiveness. … The one thing you want to have is conviction. You don’t want to be caught in between. Regardless of what was on, what was called or what was not called, obviously Spence got caught in between. What you love to see is either you go or you don’t go. And you make a decision. And when you struggle, that kind of heightened – right, all the indecisiveness is questioned if you will.”