MLB | Oddities | Part 3

Twenty nine a couple of years ago it's hard to center field Martin going back still going back to the wall. Ball stuck it stuck in the wall and now plays Dozier and second base he came inches away from hitting his first home run this year at Target Field. Talk about an oddity it wedged into the panels of the pad in center field. You don't see that too often. Yeah I could have just hit another inch and bounced over the pad but instead it's stuck in the pad. The Twins are looking at it stuck in the grass beyond the wall double for Dozier the pads out there. Of course they have that divider right there. So Turner at first lefty looking right at him. And Soto with a high fly ball deep left center and Ciarte checking his surroundings and the ball is out of his glove into the glove of Duvall for the out and Turner has to scream back to first to avoid the double play if they hit the wall this is going to be weird and I don't know what they're going to do if that short hop didn't see our days glove then we got a problem here and I don't know where he put the runners. All right so we're getting word from the official score. I saw the umpire Manny Gonzalez kind of take his fingers and point them east west. What they're saying is that Soto is going to be credited with a single but he passed Turner on the base pass and he's going to be called out as a result. And so Turner is back at first base because Soto passed him on the base pass. So it wasn't a catch right there he's passed him it was going to take a lot of offense to make up for the pitching. Muncie with a high fly ball to center Elmore is back out of Rondo Muncie to center field and the Dodgers on the board once again with the long ball. This is 16th of the year. Wow he's actually trying to take Cubs down with a deflection. They too have hit one hundred and nineteen. This Colabella high and deep to left up near the catwalk and that hit the catwalk. That will be a home run. That ball hit that catwalk but it hit the center catwalk and that ball is in play. If it hits the lower two it's a home run and hit the third one. And now they're having a discussion about that. And this is always a point of contention here at Tropicana Field. Now John Gibbons is out of the Blue Jays dugout and they're going to talk about this. Yeah it hit there. There are four rings here basically the lower ring is one two three and hit the third ring up that high ring where you see the lights on that on the left side of your screen. That's the catwalk that it hit. It's in play if it comes down in fair territory and it's all you can get. You can see Butler has no idea where it is and then recognizes that the ball is to his right and actually bounced off the wall and bounced away from him. That ball is in play and Colabella not taking anything for granted. Granted hustles all the way to third base and they indicate that the call on the field will stand as Colabella ends up with a triple ball in the speaker. That was connected to the B ring and that's a Maria stayed with it and made the catch. Boy how big of a play is that because we've seen stuff hit the catwalk come back into play bounce around for extra base hits and Danny Echeverria you see the baseball right there in front of the speaker whack and comes off of it and Echeverria never loses sight of it puts it away. Wow. And Bruce lifts one to left pretty well hit Ortega though should have room I think near the wall and he made the catch. Oh did it hit off the fence first. I think they're saying it's a grand slam. The third base umpire Dan Bellino said that he played the carom off the back fence and it's a grand slam for Jay Bruce nice deke by Ortega who had that ball land in his mitts somehow. But Bruce gets credit for his seventh home run. Let's watch and a good call by Bellino and went off the M&M sign over the orange line. It is indeed a grand slam and the Mets now have an eleven to nothing lead. Ortega was shocked to find that ball in his glove tried to sell it as best he could. The umpires are going to have to go and check it out. I think now are they just going to let the call stand. I think I think they know that it's a grand slam and I think Don Mattingly knows it's a grand slam. One guy that doesn't know is the guy on the phone. He needs to go back inside and you can see it you can hear it. It went off the blue sign. It is a grand slam the second of the season for Bruce and the seventh of his major league career and it's about lifted into left going to be caught about by Jay. How about that. You talk about lifting. That's right out of a cricket match. This ball bounces it off the bounce. I thought it might have bounced and they just showed us a side replay and that bounce in front of home plate. How in the world. Well that's the first out. You see a little bit of everything. Grounded to first. Moreland goes to second one. It was doing Ellsbury is safe at first. He's going to second base out on the force. I guess Holliday thought that he was in a rundown but Moreland did not step on first he threw the second so he's out on the force. He's definitely out. But how do you rule this. I mean you can't assume a double play I guess. Well I mean I think he interfered with the first base yeah I can the catch it. I mean he's running back to first and he's a he's a runner that doesn't exist anymore. He'd been a race. He's gonna be an interesting conversation. Yes. Unless it. He was out at second there's no reason for him to be running back to first. Well he's thinking that Moreland stepped on the bag so he's going to try to get a rundown or get back to the base but obviously he's out right there. Now he's in the way of Moreland trying to make the play it hits Ellsbury Farrell's got to be I believe that Moreland makes that that play if he doesn't have two runners right there one that didn't belong there. Let's see what they have. They're going to talk to John Farrell because they're not making any deliberate motion with a call. I would think if they were going to call it a double play they would have taken the headset off and pump their fist. Yep. I think he said I'm protesting. I really believe the Yankees Let's catch a break here. I think it was obvious interference by holiday Caleb Joseph before the game got involved in some of this. He signed a fake autograph congratulated the fans did his Cal Ripken impersonation and kept going all the way out to the center. You go despite the seriousness obviously why this game's being played as it is an empty ballpark. There has been some smiles here with some of the players. They come off first baseman in particular inside throwing the ball into the stands as they normally would the fans. Adam Jones came out and bowed to the people out in the bullpen area. He stuck right there and tackle through a breaking ball for called third strike. And Beltran and Bill Miller going at it pretty good Ron Washington there just to make sure it doesn't get too heated. Adrian said I raised my hand and called timeout. If you call it late the umpire does not have to give you time out. That's the other side of it. I'm sure that's what I'm saying. I have to say OK. He called it late and the umpire did not give him time. One at one lost his bat up into the extended netting and it gets lodged there. How are we going to get that down. CJ I know I can tell you this I'm not climbing up there to get it and that bat is probably going to stay there for a while. I don't think we're going to have a game to let on if they make a ladder that big. And that is amazing. And this was all because of the really good change up that Scott scat excuse me Kazimir through. Fortunately that netting comes out just far enough to catch that thing. It's an impressive toss. We play on with that bat stuck up there and that is new. Adding this season installed at all major league baseball parks to go from the backstop to the home plate side of the dugouts to two delivery on the way down to third. That's going to be a fair ball in a roll in the foul territory and into the corner on the second base ball still rolling around thinking about three. They got a chance all the way through and he is perfect. One hop as Trey Mancini had to chase it down trying to get three and ran out of his shoe in the process. A flat tire. That's why he got thrown out. But take a look at his shoe. There it goes. It loses a little bit of traction. Nice tag by Peterson. His shoe is actually coming off at this point. And. There it goes. So that that certainly hampered his running ability to get the third base. As you mentioned Mancini bobbled the ball in left field. That's when he decided to go to third. Blew out a tire. Left handers delivery inside out swing right field down the line not particularly deep foul territory lost it had it lined up Steve Pierce starting at first base and then it disappeared on him. I don't know stating if it disappeared or somebody in the stands might have called it because he just stopped. He looked like he was all over it had a pretty good bead right there and then he just pulls back and lets it drop and watch him look into the stands like wait you were spoke. Oh it was you. Oh my God. I may have said last year's draft 2011 a little soft liner and the bat goes flying right at so guard and knocks him down after he makes the catch. I have never seen this before where the bat winds up hitting the guy that takes the ball. That's incredible. Good job. So guard to focus on the baseball and make the play. Yeah you see a lot of broken bats you see him flying into the stands but not too often you see a guy out in the field get hit by a clip to send him down up until seeing so guard make this play Marty Feldman the only guy I ever thought would make the play. Jake Garriott has got a pitch to Bryce Harper for pitch walk Harper walked for the eighth time by the Cubs Bryce Harper free pass again. The Cubs fans get a chance to see Bryce Harper play once a year and they're probably thinking well he's a really good walker with the steal or a wild pitch here. There you go. Oh my goodness. Another one gets away and here comes here comes the runner Ben Revere to third and he comes home. But if the ball hit Bryce it's a dead ball alert baseball by Ben Revere they're going to send him back all the way to second base that was the most exciting non play of the season ladies and gentlemen stop the presses Bryce Harper has walked again. Wow. Bryce Harper is about to be walked for the twelfth time in a four game series. Bryce Harper is on base percent is going to be five hundred before we know it. They're going to walk him again to load the bases and push the lead run to third. So now six walks today to Harper and 13 in the series just said this is awesome. He can remember this game the rest of his life. He will. This may never happen again. The weekend the Cubs were scared to death to pitch to Bryce Harper but they parlayed it into a series win and they're trying to make it a sweep. Joe Maddon totally taking Bryce Harper out of this game. Fans behind home plate begging Bryce to swing at one of these still coming. You know what to say. I cannot believe that that just happened. Help or no help. That play's got to be made. Pop up 78 degree and long jingle on that one. That's just a full head of steam from Eric Hosmer overrunning that. He's looking for help with the catcher. A.J. Ellis was nowhere to be found. He never left his spot behind home plate. He stood there in anticipation of Eric Hosmer making that play. Ellis first reaction was to point to Hosmer and Fisher was easily across second.