In a season of strange plays, I saw another one tonight. In 40+ years of watching baseball, this was a first for me. I'll try to explain this one.
With one High School team leading by a run in the top of the 7th and runners on 1st & 3rd and two outs. A double steal occurs that scores the runner from 3rd, without even a throw back home. The runner slides home, gets up and goes to the dugout, thinking he scored an insurance run. In 40+ years of watching baseball, I have never seen an appeal play at home plate.
Now I have seen runners slide home, miss the plate, get in the infamous run down between the dugout and home plate. I have also seen a catcher go after a runner into the dugout to tag him out for missing home. Also, I have seen the appeal play where the runner leaves 3rd early on a tag SF fly. Or even the appeal where a runner scores, but misses touching a base somewhere along the way. But, this was the first time I have ever seen an appeal play for a runner missing home plate. I guess there’s a first for everything.
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