From The Athletic: As easy as 1-2-oops!
Posted by
JD (aka Jason Dean)
Aug 7 '20, 16:15
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Last Sunday morning, a text popped up on our phone from a distinguished new Useless Info Department emissary, Rays utility dynamo Joey Wendle. He had a question — and an excellent one at that.
Just the night before, in Baltimore, he was due up third in the top of the 11th inning. Which wasn’t that unusual, except for one thing: He never batted. That’s because the Rays lined into a double play before he could make it to home plate. So here was his question:
“Has that ever happened before in the top of an inning?”
Correct answer: No way!
Of course, that has something to do with the fact that this spectacular feat would have been impossible until, oh, two weeks ago. But then the new extra-inning, runner-on-second rule entered our fun little Strange But True world. And it’s been one nutty new extra-inning adventure after another ever since.
So in Useless Info Department emissary Wendle’s case, he’d just gotten himself caught up in the first two-up, three-down inning in baseball history. Congratulations!
“Sweet,” he replied, once we’d verified that claim to fame. “I’m basically famous now.”
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