Ozzie Guillen sounds off on Luis Robert Jr.'s poor defensive fundamentals

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White Sox center fielder Luis Robert Jr. didn't get behind a flyball or attempt a genuine throw home on the Guardians' walk-off sacrifice fly Tuesday evening.

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00:00So we already are getting calls about the end of the game and the fact that while we

00:07really enjoyed seeing Luis Robert hit home runs, hit knock-in runs, he had four hits

00:13or something.

00:14He had a great game.

00:15The problem is that at the end of the game, when the winning run is about to score, he

00:21didn't really set up.

00:22He just caught the ball and that's the walk-off was the sacrifice fly.

00:29And he didn't, he wasn't set up.

00:31I don't know if he would have gotten the guy, Ozzy, but he didn't even make the old college

00:36try.

00:37And you wonder, everyone's kind of wondering, is this another case of not knowing how many

00:41outs they were?

00:43Did he think that was the end of the inning?

00:45What was your take on the end of the game?

00:47Well, first of all, the route, it was very, very bad.

00:52See like every time you go to make a play like that, it's flat foot, really flat foot,

00:59you know, get behind the ball like everybody else or like the way they teach playing the

01:04outfield.

01:05But I know, I don't think he's going to go to throw him out from there.

01:09I'm pretty sure he never will.

01:12But the route of the ball sound like, you know, sound like, sound like this conversation

01:16will be, people will talk about it.

01:19You know what I mean?

01:20We talked about it last night.

01:21I tried to explain what I did to me, it looked like you don't know how many outs it was.

01:27But at the end of the day, when I say I look down and I see how far I was, I don't have

01:31any chance.

01:32I believe that.

01:34But the problem was the route, that's the way he do it, by the way, that's the way he

01:38do a lot.

01:39I think we're going to show that tonight on the show, like every time they have an opportunity

01:44to do the how flat foot it is, sometimes throw the ball sideways to the base, he's going

01:51to throw and that's not the way people teach.

01:55I cannot talk about the outfield because I never teach the outfield, but I see a lot

01:58of guys throwing, how they go by the business, how they go with the play.

02:03Unfortunately, he not do that yesterday.

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