Indians infielder Lonnie Chisenhall tried to check his swing on a ball that hit the dirt, took a amusing bounce and went shooting away from home plate. It couldn’t be reviewed that the ball hit Chisenhall’s bat, though replays were clear that it had. If any of them had it hitting the bat, I would have turned around and called a foul ball. A foul ball should have been called, but Joyce (or apparently any of the other umpires) didn’t see it, allowing the runs to come home.
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To his credit, Joyce met with the rest of the officiating crew to discuss, but somehow none of them had seen the play either.
Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch (14) is ejected from the game by home plate umpire Jim Joyce as ca …
A wild two-run, bases-loaded wild pitch keyed a four-run third inning for the Cleveland Indians in a 10-7 victory over the Astros on Thursday afternoon at Progressive Field.
“Everybody in the ballpark saw what happened except the four (umpires) who made the call”, said Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch. After his second home run of the day, Dan Otero was called upon to finish the sixth inning, right up until rain delayed the game for nearly exactly an hour (2:36p to 3:35p). It either hit the bat or it didn’t.
Ryan Howard hit a three-run homer, Alec Asher pitched six innings of two-hit ball coming off a suspension, Peter Bourjos homered for the Phillies, who have won three of four. Kipnis scored on a single by Lindor for a 2-1 lead. “But with the way it happened – losing the last two the way we did – you’re going to be a mess, psychologically, about it”. “It was a pretty disappointing call for us”.
There is only one way to properly cap a game that featured seven solo home runs, and Yankees rookie Tyler Austin’s walk-off shot into the right field bleachers was just that. It was the first time Miller has allowed earned runs in back-to-back appearances since August 11 and 13 of previous year. For the first time this season, three players had multi-home run games as Brian McCann, Steven Souza Jr. and Kevin Kiermaier went for two apiece.
Cleveland split the four-game series, opened a six-game lead over second-place Detroit in the AL Central and finished 8-2 on its homestand.
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– An MRI Thursday revealed the UCL in Washington Nationals ace Stephen Strasburg’s throwing elbow is intact, but there’s no timetable for a return to the rotation. At five games out in the NL wild-card race, the Marlins are clinging to their last playoff hopes. Salazar is 6-4 with a 3.38 ERA in 12 road starts this year. Given the final score (10-7), that play and those two runs are a pretty big deal.
