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The bottom-rule double finally benefited the Pink Sox by stopping a Kansas Metropolis baserunner from scoring.
In Fenway Park’s 111-year historical past, there have been hundreds upon hundreds of baseballs which have clanged, clunked and ricocheted off of the fabled Inexperienced Monster in left area.
However Wednesday night time’s recreation between the Pink Sox and Royals represented an obvious first among the many intensive injury doled out towards Boston’s wall.
Within the prime of the second inning, Kansas Metropolis outfielder Kyle Isbel drove a four-seam fastball from Nick Pivetta to the alternative area in left. Pink Sox left fielder Masataka Yoshida tried to trace down the sinking liner, making a leaping try proper on the warning observe.
At first look, it appeared like Yoshida was in a position to snag the ball. But it surely managed to land immediately behind him and smashed the sunshine fixture signaling one of many “OUT” labels on the Sox scoreboard.
Together with shattering the sunshine, Isbel’s line drive ended up being caught throughout the shattered show. It was finally dominated a ground-rule double.
As weird because the sequence was, the Pink Sox truly managed to profit from it. The bottom-rule double ruling saved KC third baseman Matt Duffy from scoring from first (had the ball as a substitute ricocheted off the wall and rolled away from Yoshida).
With Duffy held to 3rd base, Pivetta bought Maikel Garcia to fly out to proper area to strand two Royals runners in scoring place.
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