With the bases loaded and Giants pitcher Matt Moore coming up with one out, DH-lovers all over the country were sharpening their pointy sticks. Moore bunted at the first pitch, mostly because he didn’t know what else to do.
The Giants scored 3 runs on a ball hit 30 feet from home plate
It’s hard to do, but apparently not impossible.
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And then? MAGIC.
That would be a) Taijuan Walker muffing the throw home, and b) muffing a tough catch when covering home plate, which isn’t too impressive when you itemize it like that.
At the same time, a team shouldn’t score three runs on a ball hit so poorly that it travels just 30 feet. It’s not as silly of a play as the silliest play in recent baseball history, but it’s certainly silly enough to celebrate.
