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The bottom-rule double finally benefited the Crimson Sox by stopping a Kansas Metropolis baserunner from scoring.
In Fenway Park’s 111-year historical past, there have been 1000’s upon 1000’s of baseballs which have clanged, clunked and ricocheted off of the fabled Inexperienced Monster in left subject.
However Wednesday night time’s sport between the Crimson 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 subject in left. Crimson 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 regarded like Yoshida was in a position to snag the ball. Nevertheless it managed to land straight 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 inside the shattered show. It was finally dominated a ground-rule double.
As weird because the sequence was, the Crimson Sox truly managed to profit from it. The bottom-rule double ruling stored KC third baseman Matt Duffy from scoring from first (had the ball as an alternative ricocheted off the wall and rolled away from Yoshida).
With Duffy held to 3rd base, Pivetta obtained Maikel Garcia to fly out to proper subject to strand two Royals runners in scoring place.
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