There is an old saying by Tim Kurkjian that baseball is the best game that exists, because “every night you go to the stadium, you may see something you have never seen before.”
For the thousands of fans who accumulated in Citizens Bank Park on Monday night to see the Philadelphia Philis to face Boston’s Red Sox, that was undoubtedly the case.
With the game knotted in 2-2 after nine tickets, the game went to the tenth. The Philis kept the red socks without a score at the top of the Tensh, and hit the bottom of the frame in the hope of sending happy to the city fans happy.
They did it, in the most unlikely way.
The entrance begged with Brandon Marsh as the automatic, “Ghost Runner” in the second base. Boston Jordan Hicks reliever walked to Otto Kemp, and then his first release to Max Kepler was a sliding control on the earth that the receiver Carlos Narváez obtained, allowing both and Kemp advance.
Boston then decided to walk Kepler intentionally to load the bases of Edmundo Sosa, who had pinched for Bryson Stott at the beginning of the game.
That’s when this happened:
Sosa sought to balance a launch of the dish, but immediately declared the arbiter of Deco Quinn Wolcott, and then to Narváez. As you can see in the repetitions, the glove of the Bat Caht Narváez de Sosa receiver.
The work was reviewed and the failure came: the receptor’s interference. That sent Sosa to first and advanced to the runners, forcing Marsh home with the winning race.
As he pointed out Mlb.com” It was the first interference game of the walking receptor since August 1, 1971, when the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Cincinnati Reds. In that game, the Dodgers gardener, Willie Crawford, made an interference call against Johnny Bench to finish the game.
But consider what the most went to work between the Philis and the Red Sox. Not only had the automatic corridor, “Ghost”, score of the winning race, a rule that was instituted for the 2020 season, but the play was also determined by video review, which entered into force for the 2014 season.
Then, he has an interference play from the walk receptor that the automatic corridor obtained in additional entries, confirmed by video review.
As Kurkjian wrote years ago, we had never seen that before.