Albert Pujols grew to become the feel-good story of this yr’s Dwelling Run Derby, however his first-round victory over Kyle Schwarber seems to have include an asterisk.
Pujols, the No. 8 seed, edged the top-seeded Schwarber with a 20-19 additional time victory to advance to the second spherical Monday night time. However one in every of Schwarber’s house runs in OT was seemingly omitted, prematurely handing Pujols the win.
With simply 15 seconds remaining in his OT session, Schwarber started to crank house runs with little or no intervals between pitches. And after smacking house run No. 17 to proper area, Schwarber appeared to hit the subsequent pitch to the identical neighborhood, nevertheless it appeared to not be counted.
Had Schwarber’s whole been counted appropriately, he would have tied Pujols and compelled a sudden demise tiebreaker.
Per BetMGM, Schwarber was the second-most in style guess to win the Dwelling Run Derby, making Pujols’ victory the most important upset of the night time.
Controversy over the house run depend didn't finish there. Within the finals between Juan Soto and Julio Rodriguez, the Nationals star was awarded a 14th house run regardless of the pitch being thrown after the clock had already expired; he would go on to defeat Rodriguez and win the derby.
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