That's baseball ..

[BiscuitEater]

Apparently, the Astros and A's had an 'interesting' extra inning affair last night ..

2nd inning, Astros pitcher, Justin Verlander calls his catcher out of a mound visit BUT, apparently didn't get his message heard .. so he proceeds to call him back for a full 30 second 'instructional' talk ..

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11th inning, tied ballgame .. Alex Bregman was up with runners were on first and second. Bregman hits a nubber, miraculously avoids tag by A's catcher..

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Good summary and video HERE

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Is there a penalty for the catcher to bowl over the runner during that tag?

 

[kired]

His problem was he couldn't hold on to the ball - when the catcher went to tag Bregman it just popped right out of his hand. Wouldn't have done any good if he'd had ran him over because he lost the ball when he reached out for the tag.

Crazy thing is that if Bregman hadn't stopped running like he thought it was going foul, I'd bet the catcher doesn't get rushed and makes a good throw down to first. So him being kind of lazy actually worked out to be the game winner.

 

[thekimmer]

Don't know why the catcher lunged at bregman. All he had to do was stand in front of him in the base path.

One other curious question. How far backward could bregman have retreated before being called out?