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Miami Marlins Go Viral For Odd Double Play Attempt Against St. Louis Cardinals

Jonah Bride made an interesting defensive decision during the Miami Marlins' Spring Training game against the St. Louis Cardinals, but he still came through down the stretch.
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Miami Marlins Go Viral For Odd Double Play Attempt Against St. Louis Cardinals
Miami Marlins Go Viral For Odd Double Play Attempt Against St. Louis Cardinals

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One of the primary goals of Spring Training is to get as many mistakes out of your system as possible.

The Miami Marlins committed quite the odd blunder in the field against the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday, and yet it still didn't come back to bite them.

Miami entered the bottom of the fifth inning up 6-3. A string of hit-by-pitches, walks and wild pitches helped St. Louis tie the game, though, and the Cardinals had a chance to pull ahead with two outs and runners on second and third.

Second baseman José Fermín pulled a grounder to third baseman Jonah Bride, seemingly ending the rally in its tracks. All Bride had to do was make the toss to first for the force out and the Marlins would escape the jam.

Bride had other plans, though, firing the ball to second baseman Jacob Amaya.

Amaya stepped on second, then he relayed it over to first. His throw beat Fermín to the bag, ending the inning.

The Marlins tried to turn a double play when there were already two outs, and they did so by trying to get a force out where one wasn't available. The end result was the unique 5-4-3 groundout that kept the score knotted at six apiece.

The Cardinals eventually went up 7-6 in the seventh, only for the Marlins to pull back ahead 9-7 in eighth. Naturally, it was Bride who delivered the go-ahead, two-RBI single to center.

Miami held on to win 9-8 in their first game of Grapefruit League play.

Bride spent the past two seasons with the Oakland Athletics. The Marlins sent cash considerations to the A's in order to acquire Bride on Feb. 6.

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Sam Connon is a staff writer covering baseball for “Fastball on SI.’’ He previously covered UCLA Athletics for On SI’s All Bruins site, and is a UCLA graduate, with his work there as a sports columnist receiving awards from the College Media Association and Society of Professional Journalists. Connon also wrote for On SI’s New England Patriots site, Patriots Country, and he was on the Patriots and Boston Red Sox beats at Prime Time Sports Talk. Sam lives in Boston.

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