{"id":51288,"date":"2025-05-24T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T14:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/51288\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T14:15:09","slug":"quirky-baseball-rule-prevents-mets-from-turning-double-play-in-loss-to-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/51288\/","title":{"rendered":"Quirky baseball rule prevents Mets from turning double play in loss to Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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May 23, 2025; New York City, New York, USA; New York Mets manager Carlos Mendoza (64) talks to the umpires during the third inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Citi Field. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

It seems that every baseball<\/a> game offers something that you\u2019ve never seen before \u2014 or a rule that warrants further explanation.\n<\/p>\n

That play in Friday night\u2019s game between the Mets<\/a> and Dodgers came in the top of the third inning and one out with two runners on base for the Dodgers.\n<\/p>\n

The Dodgers\u2019 Mookie Betts shot a line drive into right-center field, and both Juan Soto and Tyrone Taylor converged on the ball. The ball rattled in and out of Soto\u2019s glove but Taylor, in a full sprint, was able to adjust as the ball popped free and grab it with his bare right hand before it hit the ground.<\/p>\n

At nearly the same time, the Dodgers\u2019 Michael Conforto tagged up from second base and Shohei Ohtani did the same from first.\n<\/p>\n

It appeared Conforto left before Taylor had complete control of the ball, but the ruling uncovered a unique technicality. According to MLB rules, a runner can leave the base once the ball initially makes contact with the glove and does not have to wait until the catch is made.<\/p>\n

The rule prevented a potential inning-ending double play as Francisco Lindor stepped on second base. It extended the inning, which was stopped for rain with the Mets\u2019 Griffin Canning facing Freddie Freeman with two outs in the top of the third.<\/p>\n

The Mets and Dodgers remained scoreless, with the latter threatening with a pair of runners in scoring position.\n<\/p>\n

As for the rest of the game, the Mets lost to the Dodgers in a rain-soaked, extra innings affair despite a valiant ninth-inning comeback in which the Amazin\u2019s rallied from three runs down to tie the game. They had chances to win it in the 10th, 11th and 12th frames after holding the Dodgers scoreless in the top halves, but the slumping offense couldn\u2019t come through.<\/p>\n

Finally, the Dodgers broke through the impasse in the top of the 13th with two runs, putting them ahead to stay. They would wind up winning 7-5 in the longest Mets game of the ghost runner era.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

The Mets and Dodgers will square off again Saturday night at Citi Field.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 23, 2025; New York City, New York, USA; New York Mets manager Carlos Mendoza (64) talks to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,15482,2423,12736,39,642,227,15483,134,101,111,4,1526,1690,61,2548,4203,6110,468,1444],"class_list":{"0":"post-51288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-baseball-drama","10":"tag-baseball-rules","11":"tag-defensive-play","12":"tag-dodgers","13":"tag-extra-innings","14":"tag-francisco-lindor","15":"tag-ghost-runner","16":"tag-juan-soto","17":"tag-mets","18":"tag-michael-conforto","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-mookie-betts","21":"tag-new-york","22":"tag-new-york-mets","23":"tag-newyork","24":"tag-newyorkmets","25":"tag-rain-delay","26":"tag-shohei-ohtani","27":"tag-tyrone-taylor"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114563234170910530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}