Three Twins baserunning mistakes bookend the most chaotic final play of the MLB season. And they still won. WillLaws breaks down all the glorious blunders
Still, it’s hard to fault Urshela too much here for taking off for third. When you see someone running at you, the natural human instinct is to run away. And his decision to push onward ultimately caused the next mistake, which was the most costly of them all.You can already see the regret in Haase’s face, even from behind him. really made two mistakes in one: a physical error and a mental one.
Instead, he threw to the one bag where a runner was already safely on the base and from which Urshela was already retreating. Well, he tried to throw it to third base, anyway. It ended up in left field.MLB/Bally Sports Because of how far away he’d strayed from his home, it fell to Báez to sprint from second base into left field to retrieve the ball. By the time Báez got there, it was too late to nab Urshela at home and prevent the game-winning run from crossing the plate.
, who very nearly tagged out Sanó before Urshela scored and ended the game. It would’ve been the perfect bookend for this calamity of errors, leaving both teams tied and one out away from extra innings.Alas, it was not to be. Urshela slid head-first into home just before Sanó could be tagged, Minnesota left its home stadium with a 5–4 victory and the Twins could breathe a sigh of relief that their three mistakes on the final play of the game turned out not to be as costly as Detroit’s.
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