“ONLY way that works is if the SS was able to pursue the runner back and tag him. That would make the unassisted DP with the runner being ‘doubled’ off first.”
The runner was stealing. It was a soft line drive right near the base. The runner basically gave himself up, since he and the SS arrived at 2nd base at about the same time. (Lefty batter; SS shaded toward the middle.)
I used my MLB-TV subscription to watch the replay of the game & fast-forward to that play. There’s a good screen shot just after the catch in post #23.
Thanks....
The ‘fact’ that the guy from 1st was on or near second was blatantly missing from the original report...
Minor detail ....ha....
How did we manage before all this technology?
I (when I imbibed) was a constant ‘arguer’ one of the reasons that I would be right more often than not so my ‘buds’ would try to ‘suck me into arguments’ but my mind though not good for a lot was great at maintaining worthless minutiae.
When I no longer drank and put a lot of ‘faith’ in my new found ‘hobby’ (Computer), rather than ‘argue’ I would just make note of the discussion, when home I would ‘look it up’, copy it and ‘prove my point the next day’.
Of course I was ‘fair’ (hate that word) and on the rare occasion I may have been wrong, I would ‘own up to it’.