You may or may not know but I am a huge baseball fan.  My team is the San Francisco Giants BEAT LA.  Unfortunately being in SoCal I don’t get to see quite as many games as I would like.  I am lucky tonight as my boys are playing LA tonight and the game is televised down here for my enjoyment.

For those of you unaware baseball recently started using replay to verify HRs (fair or foul over the fence or not).  Well in the bottom of the 5th inning Bengie Molina launched a ball into right field that was originally called a single (they said it was off the wall and not over).  Bruce Bochy then substituted a pinch runner (Emmanual Burriss) in for Molina.  After the PR had been announced the umpires got together and discussed the call on the field about the single.

The Umpires conferred for awhile and decided to go into the replay room off field and look at reviews of the play in call.  After reviewing the hit ball it was determined that the ball was indeed over the wall and therefore a HR for Bengie Molina.  Seems pretty simple right.

Well is wasn’t that simple you see.  The umpires then gathered again and this is what they come up with on the issue of Burriss.  Now conventional wisdom would be that the pinch runner is void as the call was reversed Molina would never have been on first.  They decided that yes Bengie gets the homerun and the two Runs Batted In (RBIs) but he does not get credited with a run scored.  No they said that Burriss had officially enetered the game and that he gets the run scored.  So in one play we have Molina with a HR and 2 RBI, Burriss with a run scored, and Sandoval (he was on base when Bengie hit the HR) also gets a run scored.

This has got to be the most bizarre scoring on a play that I have ever seen.  Also First time I have seen a guy hit a HR and not get credit with a run scored.

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