Speak about a floor out.
The Columbus Clippers and Toledo Mud Hens produced one in every of baseball’s most original performs on Wednesday night time.
Within the backside of the second inning, Clippers third baseman Ernie Clement despatched an 0-1 pitch from Joey Wentz… into the bottom.
Actually.
Clement, a Rochester native, appeared startled by the embedded ball, and stepped towards first, although Mud Hens catcher Dustin Garneau was on prime of it and tagged Clement out.
The play appeared to stun everybody, together with the broadcasting staff.
“Clement, by the point he unwound himself … it didn’t even … are you kidding me?” the staff’s play-by play announcer stated whereas watching the play. “As we take a look at the replay right here, the ball didn’t bounce in any respect. It buried within the infield dust. A 3rd of that ball is submerged!”
Columbus Clippers broadcaster Ryan Mitchell stated quite a lot of followers on the recreation won't have realized what occurred within the second. Relying how a lot the grounds crew waters the realm round dwelling plate, balls might be chopped proper into the dust and never transfer a lot, he famous.
“It’s definitely not unprecedented however it is extremely, very uncommon,” he stated.
“To me that’s the perfect a part of baseball is you might be coming to the ballpark each single day, all season lengthy for season after season and season and there’s a extremely good probability you’re gonna see one thing at a ballpark you’ve by no means seen earlier than,” Mitchell stated. “and for lots of people that have been there tonight and the response on-line, most have by no means seen what occurred at Huntington Park tonight.”
The Mud Hens, the Triple-A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers, went on to win, 4-0, over the Clippers, the highest minor league staff MLB’s Cleveland Guardians.
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