Pirates' Brandon Lowe lost his inside-the-park HR after stat change

Brandon Lowe continues to have a big power output in his first season with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

On Thursday, that appeared to include an inside-the-park home run after a wild bounce off the wall propelled Lowe all the way around the bases.

Turns out, Lowe won't be able to count that as an inside-the-parker.

He doesn't lose the home run, but it was ruled as the much less exciting, traditional homer that landed just beyond the top of the fence.

"It traveled 342 feet, projected by Statcast, into a corner that’s marked at 336 feet to the wall," MLB.com's Jeff Jones wrote. "With the wind blowing at eight mph from left to right to start the game, there was evidently just enough push to counteract the tailing action off the bat and hold the ball inside the line long enough for the Pirates to jump out to a 1-0 lead."

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Lowe ran around the bases as if the ball had stayed in the park -- which, physically, it had. It wasn't until afterward that the out-of-the-park ruling was given.

“Just a good swing, and I’ll take a home run either way it comes,” Lowe told reporters after the game, via MLB.com.

The reality is that not a lot of people are digging into the stats to see how many inside-the-park HRs a player hits. 

Lowe will simply be happy with the fact that he now has 13 home runs this season, and that would've been true no matter which method he used to pull off his latest four-bagger.

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