No matter how old the sport is, baseball always seems to occasionally provide you with something you’ve never seen before.
Take this afternoon’s interleague game between the Colorado Rockies and Texas Rangers, which ended in 10 innings on, of all things, a walk-off illegal slide call.
After the Rockies scored twice in the top of the 10th to take a 6-4 lead, Texas’ Corey Seager struck out leading off the inning with the ghost runner on second. Mitch Garver then walked, setting up the controversial ending.
Adolis Garcia bounced a ground ball to Rockies third baseman Ryan McMahon, who fired to second baseman Brendan Rodgers to force out the lead runner. Rodgers’ return throw skipped past first baseman C.J. Cron, allowing the lead runner to score and Garcia to move into scoring position.
However, umpires ruled that Garver slid illegally in an attempt to break up the double play, meaning that the game was over.
This was the end of the Rangers game. No clue how but it happened pic.twitter.com/vg1y7KGXdu
— MLB Walk Offs & Game Winning Plays (@MLBWalk_Offs) April 12, 2022
An illegal slide ends the Rockies-Rangers game 🧐
Rockies ML (+115) ✅pic.twitter.com/v7EHe4idBD
— Action Network MLB (@ActionNetMLB) April 12, 2022
Whether the call was right or wrong, that’s an absolutely brutal way to lose a game if you’re Texas. The loss dropped the Rangers to 1-3 on the young season.
The Rockies, meanwhile, are 3-1 after today’s victory. They surprisingly took two of three from the Dodgers over the weekend.
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