No. 2017.10.06 · Modern Era
Girardi Does Not Challenge
A two-out pitch was ruled to have hit Lonnie Chisenhall. Replays showed it had hit the bat. Joe Girardi did not challenge. Francisco Lindor then hit a grand slam.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi at Camden Yards, September 5, 2017, one month before the ALDS. Not the moment.
Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA / CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)
October 6, 2017, Game 2 of the American League Division Series at Progressive Field. With two out, a pitch was ruled to have hit Lonnie Chisenhall. The replay showed it coming off the knob of the bat and into the catcher's glove, which would have been strike three and the end of the inning. Joe Girardi had a challenge. He did not use it.
Francisco Lindor hit a grand slam. Cleveland won, 9–8, in thirteen innings. Girardi said afterward that he regretted the decision. New York still won the series.
The rule gave the manager a look. He declined it. The slam is what the inning became after that. The entry is the choice not to ask, made with the picture already on the scoreboard.
Film
The hit-by-pitch and Lindor's slam
Lonnie Chisenhall is awarded first on a pitch that hit the bat, and Francisco Lindor homers with the bases loaded.
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