White Sox walk off Tigers on wild pitch that ricocheted off an umpire's face
Well, here’s a new way to win a Major League Baseball game.
The Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers were locked in the opposite of a slugfest is on Saturday. The Sox took an early lead in the fourth inning when Andrew Benintendi scored from third on a wild pitch. Detroit took the run right back when Dylan Cease threw a wild pitch in the sixth that scored Zach McKinstry.
And that was basically it when it came to offense. Until the 10th inning when, with the game still tied at 1-1, the White Sox loaded the bases with two outs and Tim Anderson at the plate. This would’ve been the perfect time for Anderson to break out some of his vintage heroics and end game with a Sox win.
Something far weirder happened instead.
The Tigers’ Jose Cisnero reached back and fired an 0-0 pitch straight off the mask of home plate umpire Cory Blaser for, by far, the wildest pitch of the day.
The ball jumped away towards the visiter’s on-deck circle as Yoan Moncada sprung from third base to score the game-winning run standing up.
Wild (pitch) pic.twitter.com/1K5uUVv938
— White Sox Talk (@NBCSWhiteSox) June 3, 2023
There may be stranger ways to win a ballgame, but we might not see any this year that come close to what happened in Chicago.