September 26, 2008 had one of the oddest baseball box scores in history. The Giants beat the Dodgers 6-5 in 10 innings in an otherwise nothing game. Nothing except that for the first time in major league history a player Bengie Molina, hit a home run, a walk-off home run at that, but wasn't credited with scoring a run.
How DOES a player hit a home run and not get credit for scoring a run? Read on:
On Sept. 26, Molina lofted a fly ball that looked as if it hit the top of the right-field wall at AT&T Park. So Molina stopped at first. Emmanuel Burriss trotted out to pinch-run for him. And nothing seemed amiss -- until Omar Vizquel told Giants manager Bruce Bochy he thought he'd heard the ball clank off the metal roof just above the wall.
So Bochy asked the umpires to use replay. And whaddayaknow, the call was reversed and Molina had himself a two-run homer. But the umps WOULDN'T let Molina come back to finish his trot because they ruled Burriss was already in the game and couldn't exit. So Burriss finished circling the bases. And Molina wound up with a box-score line that went 3-0-1-2 -- on a night he hit a home run.
Now you know.
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