![]() ![]() Hernández’s fifth-inning homer gave Boston a 4-2 lead, but the Rays tied it in the eighth when Wander Franco hit a solo homer and Meadows and Randy Arozarena doubled. Red Sox ace Nate Eovaldi allowed Austin Meadows’ two-run homer in the top of the first, but Schwarber led off the bottom half with a home run. He went 5 for 6 with a home run and three doubles in Boston’s Game 2 win, becoming the first Red Sox player ever with four extra-base hits in a postseason game. Hernández singled in the first, singled in the third and homered in the fifth to give him seven consecutive hits in the series. Hernández and Kyle Schwarber each had three hits, including a homer, for Boston. Renfroe walked with one out in the bottom half, then Vázquez hit the first pitch from Luis Patiño over the Green Monster to end it. When play resumed, Nick Pivetta struck out Mike Zunino to end the inning and came bounding off the mound in celebration. “There’s no, ‘He would have done this, would have done that.’ It’s just flat-out in the rule book, it’s a ground-rule double,” he said. There’s no discretion that the umpires have.” Said umpire crew chief Sam Holbrook: “It’s in the rulebook. or Yandy was going to come around to score, but it didn’t go our way.” It was very unfortunate for us,” he said. Rays manager Kevin Cash said he watched the replay and it was obvious Renfroe didn’t knock it over the wall on purpose. ![]() … It’s incredible that it worked out to their advantage just like that.” “But I was hoping to see that Yandy scored, because he would have scored obviously. “If I stayed at second, that’s fine,” Kiermaier said. But the umpires conferred and went to the headsets before awarding Kiermaier a double and sending Diaz back to third.īaseball Rule 5.05(a)(8) states: “Any bounding fair ball is deflected by the fielder into the stands, or over or under a fence on fair or foul territory, in which case the batter and all runners shall be entitled to advance two bases.” ![]() Then came the play that had the umpires scurrying for the rulebook and the Rays scratching their heads.ĭiaz was halfway from second to third when Kiermaier’s ball bounced over the 5-foot-high wall, and he easily would have scored had it remained in play. Tampa Bay rallied from a 4-2 deficit to tie it in the eighth inning and it was still 4-all when Yandy Diaz singled with one out in the 13th. ![]()
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