Knowledge of the game is fine. Everyone knows you need to make contact with a runner on 3rd and less than two outs.
People who haven’t been in that situation, especially against Division 1 level pitching, have no idea how difficult it can be.
And it happens over and over on here when a guy in that situation hits a missile, but right at a drawn in infielder…and the few on here that are always the critics will gripe about how so and so didn’t “get it done”. And cant believe how terrible the team is at getting runners home in that situation.
Or a pitcher gives up a hit and “those guys” respond with “he threw it right down the middle!!”. Not to mention these are usually the same people who come unglued when a pitcher walks a guy on a close 3-2 pitch after the batter fouled off 4 pitches with 2 strikes.
Those are just a couple of examples…there are hundreds of others. And “knowledge of the game” has nothing to do with it.