San Francisco Giants Achieve Baseball History with Wild Double Play on Sunday Night
The San Francisco Giants beat the Atlanta Braves on Sunday night by a score of 8-5.
The game was played on national television as part of 'Sunday Night Baseball' and moved the Giants to 67-63 on the year.
It was a critical win for San Francisco, who has lost seven of its last 10 games. They are now 1.5 games back of the third and final wild card spot in the National League, trailing the Diamondbacks, Cubs and Phillies, who own the three wild card spots.
The Giants won the game on Sunday thanks to a Patrick Bailey bases-clearing double, but also because of a historic defensive play.
In the top of the fifth inning, Marcell Ozuna was at the plate for the Braves with runners at second and third and one out.
He hit a ground ball to first base, who flipped to the pitcher covering first. The pitcher decided he couldn't beat Ozuna to the bag, so he flipped it to the second baseman, who was also covering.
Then, the second baseman threw it home to get the runner coming from third.
Per Sarah Langs of MLB.com:
about that double play in Braves/Giants...
it was the 1st double play in the expansion era (since 1961) that went exactly 3-1-4-2 (with no other fielders involved)
h/t @EliasSports
That was a major defensive play in the game, keeping it just a one-run game at the time. In the following half inning, Bailey hit his big double which then gave the Giants the lead.
The Giants will host the Cincinnati Reds on Monday night at 9:45 p.m. ET.
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