\u2014 OnPattison (@OnPattison) April 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Then Deshaies had another inspired idea. How about a race: The goose versus, say, Pete Crow-Armstrong. Love it. So before that duel arrives on some betting board, you should ask yourself: Which of those two should you throw a few bird-seed pellets on if that race ever happens?<\/p>\n \u201cWell, I think the goose,\u201d Deshaies said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to give the goose a little bit of a head start and let it get up to speed. In a short burst, PCA is going to win. But over the long haul, I\u2019ll take the goose. You know, at our place in New York (State), on the river, we get a billion geese down there. So I\u2019m very familiar with their work. They\u2019re tough to bet against.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s also important, if we\u2019re going to make this flick, that we pay tribute to the long line of \u201cGooses\u201d in baseball history: Goose Gossage, Goose Goslin, Goose Tatum, Greg Goossen and that other famed Canada Goose, Tom Henke. So no wonder this goose was drawn to Wrigley. Almost all of those famous baseball Geese played there once.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, if you were a goose, you would not go to a football stadium,\u201d Deshaies said. \u201cYou would go to a ballpark. You know, we use \u2018goose eggs\u2019 in the parlance of baseball: \u2018He\u2019s stringing up a bunch of goose eggs on the scoreboard.\u2019 Now, (with our star attraction waddling to the mound) we actually could.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, if we\u2019re going down that road, we should recognize there\u2019s competition for stardom in baseball\u2019s animal kingdom. Heck, there was a rat scampering around Wrigley the very next night. But Deshaies has seen them all come and go \u2014 the bees, the seagulls, the cats, the squirrels, the rodents and now \u2026 the geese.<\/p>\n Since it\u2019s NFL Draft week in America, how could I not then ask Deshaies: \u201cSo if we held a draft of baseball wildlife, which of those would be your first pick? The commissioner steps to the podium and says: `With the first pick in the baseball wildlife draft, Jim Deshaies picks \u2026 ?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOh, the Canada Goose,\u201d Deshaies said, proudly. \u201cObviously.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, I know there\u2019s a recency bias here, but I really enjoyed watching that goose just walk across the field,\u201d he told us draftniks. \u201cHe had the neck bob, and there was just an arrogance. There\u2019s a confidence about that goose that I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve seen from any other wildlife.\u201d<\/p>\n So here at Weird and Wild World Productions, we ask: How could you\u00a0not\u00a0take the kids to the premiere of \u201cGeese in the Outfield?\u201d Our star literally has it all. The beak. The feathers. The confidence. The defensive savvy. And never forget: He can flat out fly.<\/p>\n Michael Busch hit a single that scared off a goose at Wrigley Field. #MLB<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/u9oRETrNtx<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) April 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Trivia time!<\/p>\n It\u2019s time to debut a spectacular new feature of the Weird and Wild column \u2013 trivia!<\/p>\n Here\u2019s this week\u2019s question: Jose Altuve just became the third player, whose career began in the 2000s, to play at least 2,000 regular-season games, all for one team. Can you name the other two? (Answer at the bottom of the column.)<\/p>\n Trout fishing in the Bronx \n Mike Trout put on a show in New York. Not many Yankees in history have matched his five homers in a series. (Dustin Satloff \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n Normally, if you were on a quest to find the finest trout in America, you\u2019d head for, say, the Bighorn River. But not this month. You should have just pointed your rod and reel toward the Bronx, where Mike Trout was doing things that did not involve swimming upstream.<\/p>\n From April 13-16, the Angels were at Yankee Stadium. It might have been the most fun series any two teams have played all season. A dude named Aaron Judge hit four home runs in those four games \u2014 and he wasn\u2019t even the best hitter on the field.<\/p>\n That\u2019s because Trout also stopped by, jumped in his time machine and one-upped Judge, which isn\u2019t easy. Trout homered in all four games of the series, and bashed five altogether<\/a>. It was the first series in which two multi-time MVPs hit at least four apiece since a Mickey Mantle-Roger Maris bomb-fest in 1962.<\/p>\n But Judge gets plenty of attention. So what do you say we focus on Trout?<\/p>\n Change for a Five \u2014 This edition of Yankee Stadium opened in 2009. Want to guess how many players had ever hit five homers in a series at this Yankee Stadium \u2014 for the Yankees or against the Yankees? As always, zero would be an excellent guess.<\/p>\n Stop by the Visitors Center \u2014 How many other visiting players do you think have ever hit five home runs in one series (of four games or shorter) in any edition of Yankee Stadium, dating all the way back to 1923? Again, don\u2019t be afraid to guess zero, because you\u2019d be absolutely correct.<\/p>\n George Bell, Darrell Evans and Jimmie Foxx did hit five against the Yankees in a series through the years, but you know where those games happened? Not in New York, of course.<\/p>\n Yankee Doodle \u2014 Once I got through digging that up, I asked myself a really fun question: How many Yankees have hit five in one series (again, four games or shorter) at any version of The Stadium?<\/p>\n All right, so this answer is\u00a0not\u00a0zero. But it won\u2019t take long to spit out the list.<\/p>\n \u2022 It\u2019s happened once in the last 60 years: Darryl Strawberry, 1996.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 It\u2019s happened twice in the last 70 years: Strawberry and Mickey Mantle, 1965.<\/p>\n \u2022 It\u2019s happened three times in the last 80 years: Strawberry, Mantle and Yogi Berra. 1955.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s not just weird (and wild). It means it\u2019s time for one final list \u2026<\/p>\n Are We Forgetting Somebody \u2014 So if that\u2019s the complete group of players who\u00a0have\u00a0hit five homers in a series at any incarnation of Yankee Stadium, that means some pretty freaking famous Yankees\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0hit five home runs (or more) in any series they ever played there. Just for fun, let\u2019s run through a few of them you might have heard of:<\/p>\n Aaron Judge Who? Oh, them. So all those Yankees legends never did this. But a man who doesn\u2019t play for the Yankees just did. His name is Trout. And he just put on a show for the ages.<\/p>\n ABS-olutely challenging<\/p>\n It\u2019s been two weeks since the last edition of this column<\/a>. So as a public service, it\u2019s time to recap more Great Moments in Robot Umpiring.<\/p>\n Accidents Will Happen \u2014 Nothing we love more around here than an accidental challenge. So how great was this: The Pirates\u2019 Bubba Chandler threw a first-inning pitch to the Cubs\u2019 Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros on April 12, then inadvertently tugged the back of his cap. But it sure looked advertent to plate ump Alan Porter \u2026 who announced Chandler had challenged the call.<\/p>\n And then \u2026 a hilarious thing happened as Chandler was frantically trying to signal that he wasn\u2019t challenging anything:\u00a0He won the challenge!<\/p>\n Well\u2026 this is a new one! \ud83e\udee8 <\/p>\n Bubba accidentally challenged a pitch by adjusting his cap, but he ended up winning it \ud83e\udd23 \ud83e\udde2 pic.twitter.com\/xM3mTUyqvO<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 SportsNet Pittsburgh (@SNPittsburgh) April 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Accidents Will Happen, Part 2 \u2014 When we say we can\u2019t take our eyes off Shohei Ohtani, that\u2019s not always a good thing! He, too, tugged his cap after\u00a0his first pitch of the game\u00a0in an April 8 start in Toronto. And this time, it was his catcher, Will Smith, who thought:\u00a0I guess he wants to challenge.<\/p>\n Whoops! This pitch was nearly 2 inches below the zone. Asked afterward what he thought of that accidental challenge, Ohtani quipped: \u201cI thought it was a ball.\u201d<\/p>\n With the new ABS challenge system, I\u2019ve been wondering how often something like this would become an issue \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n Ohtani went to adjust his hat, but Will Smith thought he was asking for a challenge and tapped his head to confirm. pic.twitter.com\/UvqFmrj8wk<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Michaela Bennett (@MichaelaB_22) April 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n One Challenge, Two Pitchers \u2014 And\u00a0now for something completely different \u2014 a challenge that turned a strikeout by one pitcher into a walk by another\u00a0pitcher!<\/p>\n Follow this closely, because it will make your brain explode. In the ninth inning of Thursday\u2019s Cubs-Phillies game, the Phillies\u2019 Trea Turner challenged a 3-2 pitch thrown by Riley Martin. If he\u2019d lost that challenge, he would have struck out against Martin. Instead \u2026<\/p>\n Turner won that challenge, which meant he\u2019d just drawn a walk\u00a0against a pitcher who wasn\u2019t even on the field at the time. Got all that? The guy who was charged with \u201cissuing\u201d that walk was Cubs reliever Caleb Thielbar, who missed the whole thing because he\u2019d just left with an injury in the middle of this at-bat.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a Tap-off! Once upon a time in baseball, it used to be impossible to win a game with a pat of your head. Boy, are those days done. We had\u00a0two\u00a0games end this week via my favorite new baseball thing: the tap-off. That\u2019s a challenge that turns a ball into a game-ending strikeout, and I\u2019m here for it.<\/p>\n The Reds won like that Sunday. The Cubs won like that Wednesday. And since I coined the term \u201ctap-off,\u201d we know what to call it. What\u2019s way harder is how to mark it on your scorecard. Here with that answer is Statcast guru Tom Tango.<\/p>\n Well @dougglanville<\/a> , we’ve got all 4 rotations for marking a strikeout on a scoresheet\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/BoW9J1SFIX<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Tangotiger \ud83c\udf41 (@tangotiger) March 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n It\u2019s a Double No-Tapper! Finally, just when you thought you\u2019d never see another game without a challenge in your lifetime, we had two of them back-to-back last weekend \u2014 involving the same two teams (the Blue Jays and Diamondbacks). The question is what catchy name are we going to use to describe a game with no challenges by anybody.<\/p>\n Luckily, we polled you, our loyal readers, on that very question in the last Weird and Wild column. And that verdict is \u2026<\/p>\n \u201cNo-tapper\u201d \u2014 44.9 percent You people are the best. Thank you. And also, since \u201cno-tapper\u201d was my idea \u2026 you\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n Stuff I can\u2019t believe happened this month<\/p>\n Never mind \u2014 Thanks to the miracle of replay, the Phillies\u2019 Adolis Garc\u00eda took a home run trot in the middle of a strikeout Wednesday. (Oops! Foul ball upon further review.) And Tuesday, the Marlins\u2019 Jakob Marsee got tagged out at third during a home run trot<\/a>. (Oops! Upon further review, that ball went over the fence, not off it.) So pretend you never saw this stuff!<\/p>\n Inside out \u2014 White Sox rookie Sam Antonacci\u2019s first career homer Tuesday was just your average inside-the-parker that hit the ball boy. (Or at least that was Lourdes Gurriel Jr.\u2019s excuse for not chasing it down<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Beat the clock \u2014 Is there a rule that says a team\u00a0has to\u00a0have nine defensive players on the field? Apparently, because in the eighth inning of an April 15 game against the Reds, the Giants took the field\u00a0with no right fielder. So who got penalized for that? Somehow, the pitcher, JT Brubaker, got hit with a clock violation<\/a> for waiting until Jerar Encarnacion could make it to the outfield.<\/p>\n \u201cHe didn\u2019t know where his glove was,\u201d Giants manager Tony Vitello said afterward. \u201cWhich would be a lot more funny if we won the game.\u201d<\/p>\n Hang 10 \u2014 The Pirates went 41 straight starts without scoring more than five runs in any game while Paul Skenes was on the mound. And then, in an April 13 game against Washington,\u00a0they scored 10 in one inning,\u00a0because \u2026 baseball!<\/p>\n This Week in Useless Info \n Parker Messick\u2019s no-hit bid against the Orioles on April 16 was broken up in the ninth. (Jason Miller \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n Just since their last no-hitter (in 1981) \u2026 the Guardians\/Indians have won five Cy Young Awards! (That\u2019s two by Corey Kluber, and one from each of CC Sabathia, Cliff Lee and Shane Bieber). But every time they take a no-hitter into the ninth<\/a>, somebody breaks it up. But maybe they\u2019ll enjoy hearing that \u2026<\/p>\n Just since their last Cy Young Award (to Jack McDowell in 1993) \u2026 the White Sox have thrown five no-hitters! (That\u2019s two by Mark Buehrle, one by each of Carlos Rod\u00f3n, Lucas Giolito and Philip Humber.)<\/p>\n Speaking of the White Sox \u2026\u00a0Munetaka Murakami just visited scenic West Sacramento for the first time \u2026 and hit a home run in all three games of a series against the A\u2019s. So what\u2019s so weird and wild about that?<\/p>\n Over the last 100 years, the White Sox have played the A\u2019s in Oakland, Kansas City and Philadelphia \u2014 and nobody on the roster homered three games in a row in the same series in any of those places.\u00a0But in Murakami\u2019s first three games ever in West Sacramento \u2026 yep.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll see your 10 and raise you \u2014 How did the Cubs kick off this nine-game winning streak they\u2019re currently riding? By scoring 10 runs, then 11, then 12, in three games against the Phillies and Mets. So when was the last time any Cubs team had a streak of three straight games scoring at least 10 in a game while scoring more runs in each of them than the game before? Of course I had to know.<\/p>\n It happened as recently as \u2026 1930, when they put up 10-11-12 against the Reds. How long ago was that? Rogers Hornsby and Hack Wilson hit two home runs apiece in that streak.<\/p>\n Out-Spidering the Spiders \u2014 Here\u2019s how smoothly things are going for the Phillies: Going into their game Thursday, they were allowing a batting average on balls in play (BABIP) of \u2014 you might want to sit down before you read this \u2014 .357!<\/p>\n Does that seem high? You have no idea how high. Only one team in history has allowed a BABIP of .350 or higher over a full season \u2026 and it was merely the worst team of all time,\u00a0Harry Colliflower\u2019s 1899 Cleveland Spiders, who coughed up a .355 BABIP en route to going an attractive 20-134. (Hat tip: my ever-attentive Athletic colleague, Matt Gelb.)<\/p>\n Weeper by the dozen \u2014 In other upbeat NL East news \u2026\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The Mets \u2014 just lost 12 games in a row<\/a>.<\/p>\n The rest of the NL East \u2014 now in their combined 118th season since each of the Mets\u2019 four division rivals had a losing streak that long (65 for the Phillies, 18 for the Nationals, 11 for the Braves and 34 and counting for the Marlins, who somehow have never lost 12 in a row).<\/p>\n Across the RFK\/Triborough Bridge \u2014 the Yankees are into their 118th season just by themselves\u00a0since the last time they lost that many games in a row. Wid Conroy\u2019s 1908 Highlanders were the last team to have that tough a fortnight. And how long ago was that team\u2019s 12-game skid? So long that the Yankees franchise had won zero World Series at the time \u2026 and the Yankees would then play 53 more seasons of baseball before the Mets even came into the world.<\/p>\n New York, New York \u2014 I\u2019m still trying to comprehend what happened when the A\u2019s visited New York this month \u2026 and did some weird, wild stuff.<\/p>\n For their first trick,\u00a0they threw back-to-back shutouts in the same city,\u00a0but against two different teams \u2014 the Yankees on April 9, the Mets on April 10. So did I wonder how long it had been since any team threw back-to-back shutouts in New York but not against the same team? Are you familiar with this column?<\/p>\n So I recruited the great Katie Sharp, of Baseball Reference, to help with this project. And I learned this happened as recently as 101 years ago. Last to do it was Dolf Luque\u2019s 1925 Reds. Rube Benton tossed a July 17 shutout of Brooklyn at Ebbets Field. Then, the next day, Luque did the same to the Giants at the Polo Grounds.<\/p>\n To find the three other times it happened, you\u2019d have to travel back to the dead-ball era: The Reds did it on Aug. 15-16, 1919. The Cubs did it on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, 1909. And the Pirates pulled it off on July 12-13, 1909. All of those teams turned that trick against the Giants and whatever they were calling Brooklyn that year.<\/p>\n For their other astounding trick,\u00a0the A\u2019s won 1-0 games over both the Yankees and Mets on the same road trip. And let\u2019s just say you don\u2019t see that much.<\/p>\n Baseball Reference\u2019s incredible Kenny Jackelen dug in on that one \u2014 and found just one other team in history that won 1-0 games in New York on the same trip against two different teams.\u00a0That was Burleigh Grimes\u2019 1917 Pirates, who did it on their most bizarre road trip of the year.<\/p>\n They set out on a 14-game trip \u2014 and 11 games into it, they\u2019d won only two of them. Guess which two? Uh-huh. Won a 1-0 game in Brooklyn on Aug. 20. Won another 1-0 special at the Polo Grounds a week later. How they wound up in a 2026 edition of the Weird and Wild column is a testament to the never-ending nuttiness of \u2026<\/p>\n Baseball!<\/p>\n This Week in Strange But Trueness \n Elly De La Cruz, a Strange But True regular, strikes again. (Julio Aguilar \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n That\u2019s a switch \u2014 Reds magician Elly De La Cruz is always a Strange But True phenomenon waiting to happen. So how \u2019bout this. He\u2019s a switch-hitter \u2014 and on Tuesday in Tampa Bay, he hit home runs against a left-handed pitcher and a right-handed pitcher in the same game. But \u2026 here comes the Strange But True part \u2026<\/p>\n He did not hit home runs from both sides of the plate.<\/p>\n Wait. What? How? He hit them both right-handed, because he batted right-handed in the ninth\u00a0against a position player\u00a0(Ben Williamson), even though Williamson \u201cpitched\u201d right-handed.<\/p>\n So how many times do you think that\u2019s happened in the history of switch-hitting? Amazingly, that answer is\u00a0not\u00a0zero. According to Katie Sharp, Ian Happ did it on Aug. 2, 2023 \u2026 and Ozzie Albies also did it on June 30, 2021 \u2026\u00a0both of them because they batted right-handed against a position player.\u00a0Modern baseball is something, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n Why take one when you can grab a dozen \u2014 There were two outs in the ninth Monday in Kansas City. The Orioles and Royals were one strike away from a 1-0 game \u2026 and then \u2026\u00a0a 7-5 game busted out.\u00a0The Orioles tied it in the ninth. Then the teams scored 10 runs in the 11th and 12th. And voila.<\/p>\n Want to guess how many games in history have been one strike (or even one out) away from a 1-0 game and ended up with\u00a0a dozen\u00a0runs scored? Once again, zero is a tremendous guess. Hat tip: Kenny Jackelen\/Baseball Reference.<\/p>\n Also in that game\u00a0\u2026 the Royals\u2019 Nick Loftin hit a three-run bases-clearing double in extra innings \u2026\u00a0and his team still lost. Is it me, or does that seem almost impossible?<\/p>\n Oh, it\u2019s possible. Katie Sharp found two other instances in the Baseball Reference database (which is mostly complete back to 1910) of teams that smoked three-run doubles in extra innings and still managed to lose that game.<\/p>\n On Aug. 17, 2022, the Rays got a bases-clearing double from Francisco Mej\u00eda in the 10th off Aroldis Chapman \u2014 but coughed up that lead in the bottom of the 10th.<\/p>\n And on June 24, 1990, the Padres got a three-run double in the 10th from a pitcher\u00a0(Dennis Rasmussen, who was pinch-hitting) but still lost to the Braves.<\/p>\n They could have been heroes, but baseball happened.<\/p>\n Strangeness in Slam Diego \u2014 If you missed Padres-Rockies, April 9 in San Diego, I\u2019m sorry. This was one of the craziest games you\u2019ll ever see.<\/p>\n All the Padres did was \u2026 trail in the 10th and 11th innings \u2026 and still win \u2026 on a walk-off grand slam (by Xander Bogaerts) in the 12th.<\/p>\n SLAM DIEGO MADNESS <\/p>\n XANDER BOGAERTS WALK-OFF GRAND SLAM \ud83d\ude24 pic.twitter.com\/kKJ85kWnfP<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 MLB (@MLB) April 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n But believe it or not, that\u2019s not even the Strangest But Truest part. Here it comes.<\/p>\n The Padres also scored four runs in that 12th inning on three pitches:\u00a0Zombie runner\u2026sac bunt on the first pitch \u2026 intentional walk \u2026 intentional walk \u2026 slam on the second pitch. What the heck!<\/p>\n So I know what you\u2019re thinking: No way that had ever happened before \u2014 by which we mean any of that, right?<\/p>\n Right! Thanks to Katie Sharp, we can report that the Padres are the only team in the Baseball Reference\/Retrosheet play-by-play annals to trail in the 10th, trail in the 11th and then win any game on a walk-off slam in the 12th inning or later.<\/p>\n They\u2019re also the only team in the pitch-count era (1988-present) that has ever scored four runs\u00a0on three pitches\u00a0(or fewer). That would have been impossible before the no-pitch intentional walk. But is that our problem? Nope!<\/p>\n Where there\u2019s a Will \u2026\u00a0there\u2019s a Strange But True all-timer. On Sunday in Minnesota, the Reds\u2019 Will Benson didn\u2019t start, but did score two runs. That, of course, wasn\u2019t even close to the Strange But True part.<\/p>\n The Strange But True part is,\u00a0he never saw a single pitch at the plate.<\/p>\n He scored the first run as a pinch runner. He scored the second after one of those pitch-free intentional walks. Does that seem hard? It seemed so hard to Reds TV stats machine Joel Luckhaupt that he looked it up \u2014 and found \u2026<\/p>\n The complete list of players in history to score two runs but see zero pitches consists of \u2026<\/p>\n Will Benson, because that no-pitch intentional walk is the gift that keeps on giving to columns like this.<\/p>\n The old college try (Chapter One) \u2014 Ever heard of a pitcher who had a line like this:<\/p>\n 2 outs, 1 win, 0 batters faced<\/p>\n No, you have not. Not in the big leagues anyway. But it happened in this Division III game between Muhlenberg and Washington College on April 11.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s how the day went for your winning pitcher, Evan Virno: Arrived in a tie game with one out and two men on in the top of the ninth. Picked off the runner on third for the second out. Then his catcher threw out the runner on second trying to steal third. That\u2019s three outs.<\/p>\n His team then walked it off in the bottom of the ninth. So that was a Strange But True wrap for the most unlikely winning pitcher of 2026. (Hat tip: Sports Info Solutions\u2019 Mark Simon.)<\/p>\n The old college try (Chapter Two) \u2014 Ever heard of a team scoring 20 runs in the first inning \u2026\u00a0on three hits?<\/p>\n Again let\u2019s all sing along:\u00a0No, you have not (in the big leagues). But this, too, actually happened, in a historic college baseball game \u2014 when Lehigh put up 20 runs in the top of the first of an April 14 game at Coppin State.<\/p>\n Want to relive the ridiculous top of the first inning? Of course you do.<\/p>\n Lehigh set an NCAA record for most runs in the top of the 1st inning\u2026<\/p>\n Here\u2019s how it happened \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n HBP \u2014 DraftKings Sportsbook (@DKSportsbook) April 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n We\u2019ll recap it so you don\u2019t have to. That\u2019s three pitching changes \u2014 and 20 runs \u2014 before the first out on a ball in play by either team\u00a0\u2026 not to mention 20 runs\u00a0on only three balls in play.\u00a0The combined line for Coppin State\u2019s first three pitchers of the day \u2013 Mekenna Wakakuwa, Jack Joyce and Aaden Lopez:<\/p>\n 1\/3 IP, 2 H, 19 R, 19 ER, 11 BB, 1 K, 6 HBP, 3 WP<\/p>\n \u00a0Honestly, I can\u2019t believe I just typed that! But omg. (Hat tip @ScoringChanges)<\/p>\n Not shirtless in Seattle \u2014 And finally, there was always-innovative Mariners ace Logan Gilbert, who performed this Strange But True magic trick on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n What happens if a baseball gets caught in a jersey?<\/p>\n Mariners pitcher Logan Gilbert found out firsthand that it counts as a base hit \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfa5 @DKramer_<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/WPzW83kmF1<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2271532261-scaled.jpg\")
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