The Colorado Rockies on Sunday ended a six-game shedding streak with a 2-1 win over the visiting Seattle Mariners in 10 innings. The Rockies, nevertheless, appeared to win by way of walk-off dwelling run within the backside of the ninth, however Jacob Stallings‘ double/attainable homer was dominated on evaluate to be an out because of fan interference.
With two outs within the dwelling half of the ninth in a scoreless sport, Stallings drove a first-pitch fastball from Ryne Stanek deep to left. Out in left, Seattle’s Dylan Moore tried to make a play on Stallings’ drive, but it surely wound up bouncing off a fan’s glove and again onto the sphere of play. Umpires initially known as it a double, however a crew-chief problem despatched it to the evaluate sales space. The evaluate, to say the least, didn’t go the best way Rockies hoped:
It appeared that the ball, left unimpeded, would have cleared the fence, however on the identical time, it seemed like Moore had a possible “theft” play on it. Thus, fan interference was the ruling on evaluate, and Stallings’ would-be walk-off homer was as an alternative a procedural third out of the body.
Luckily for Colorado – and what could also be a baseball variant of “ball do not lie” – it bought its walk-off in spite of everything, on Ryan McMahon‘s infield single within the tenth inning. The 34-year-old Stallings, nevertheless, missed out on what would’ve been his first homer of the season, twenty fifth of his profession, and fourth of the walk-off selection.
The Rockies entered this sport, the primary of a Sunday doubleheader, with the worst report within the Nationwide League and their worst begin via the primary 20 video games of the season in franchise historical past. The loss dropped the Mariners to 1 sport beneath .500 at 10-11.
