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The New York Yankees were in a bind. The Tampa Bay Rays had loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the ninth in a tie game.
But then the perfect opportunity to escape -- a ground ball to second baseman Jazz Chisholm, leading him right to a potential tag and a throw to first to complete an inning-ending double play.
That never happened. Chisholm flubbed the grounder and the Rays won.
Jazz could've tagged Diaz and thrown to first for the double play. Instead he bobbles the ball and the Rays walk it off pic.twitter.com/1ij5OyebPQ
— Talkin' Yanks (@TalkinYanks) April 12, 2026MORE: Aaron Judge's case as the greatest right-handed hitter of all time
The mistake was rough, but it was an error. Those happen.
Chisholm's explanation afterward is drawing even more attention.
He seemed to have the right plan, but this is how he relayed it to MLB.com's Bryan Hoch, expressing he didn't really know why it was the right plan:
"I was really going to go try to tag the runner and just throw it to first. I don't know what the rule is. If I went to first base first and threw it back to second, if it's still an out. Is it still a double play? I don't know. Does it count as not an RBI?"
Hoch shared that Trent Grisham explained the rule to Jazz from the next-door locker.
The reason the tag and then throw to first works is that if the inning ends on that force out at first, it doesn't matter whether the runner already touched home. The force out ends the inning without the score.
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If the final out is a tag, anything that happens before that still counts as far as runs crossing the plate.
Chisholm messed it up so it didn't matter, but it seems like he could use a refresher on these rules anyway.
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