Well, that was a weird sequence.
A ball got stuck in the wall at Minute Maid Park, and George Springer had no clue what to do
Uh...guys? How do I get the ball down?
It isn’t that weird when taken on its face: Todd Frazier hit a ground-rule double to center field and brought Aaron Hicks around to score. The Yankees were then tied with the Astros 1-1 in Game 2 of the ALCS.
Normal, right?
Well, not when you realize what actually happened on that ground-rule double.
The hit sailed into the outfield ... and then got stuck in one of the chainlink fences. Frazier kept running, thinking that the ball just hadn’t beat him home and that he had scored a normal run to put the Yankees up by a run.
Instead, he had to go back to second because the ball was just ... stuck in a fence.
The Astros’ George Springer looked downright flabbergasted staring up at the ball. He turned around a few times before looking back up there and attempting to figure out how it was stuck and what he should do. Just confused look after confused look like ... hey guys? Can somebody help me get the ball down so we can play baseball again? Thanks.
He threw his glove up there at one point to see if that would do the trick. It did not.
That’s some playground goofing-off shit right there. “Welp, guess we have to go home because nobody can reach the ball and that’s the only ball we have.”
Of course, this is big-kid baseball so they have extra balls and somebody ended up climbing up the fence to knock it out, but for a minute nobody had any idea what to do or what was happening and Minute Maid Park — although it’s an inanimate structure -- was probably chuckling at everybody’s confusion.
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