In this case, “It ain’t over til it’s over.”
How embarrassing. Palmyra-Macedon (New York) was trying to become Section V Class B1 high school baseball champion for the second straight year. The Red Raiders were facing defeat, trailing Hornell by a run with two outs in the bottom of the seventh and final inning, with two strikes on their last hope batter. Palmyra-Macedon also had runners on second and third base, with no runner at first base. The umpire called the next pitch strike three, but it was a wild pitch that got past the catcher. Baseball rules hold (I hope you know this) that the batter can run to first base in such situations if first isn’t occupied, and has to be thrown or tagged out.
But instead of racing to retrieve the ball and throw to first base, the Hornell catcher ran out to the mound to start celebrating. His team did the same, and while they were jumping up and down, the Palmyra-Macedon batter ran to first and his team mates on second and third ran home, scoring the tying and winning runs.
Palmyra-Macedon had a stunning 6-5 win, and they celebrated, this time appropriately.
I’d say “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch” also applies here, as well as another alleged Yogi-ism (though it isn’t), “The opera ain’t over till the fat lady sings.” these are important life lessons, but what a brutal way to learn them.
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Wow. You can see the umpire start to go into his strikeout routine, then stop. Then he makes a safe call.
Amazing. Yes a brutal lesson in the rules, which the catcher should have already known. I am guessing, though, that if the ball went to the backstop at least one run was going to score (but not the winning run).
That catcher is now the equivalent of football’s “no good! Wide right!”thankfully it’s early in his career so the embarrassment probably won’t last too long.
I’m confused. It looks as if the catcher picked the ball out of the dirt and tagged the batter/runner as he took off to first. I didn’t see the ball get past the catcher. Weird. Then the catcher seemed to get ready to throw to first, but the ump called the batter out? Weird.