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The Wylie high school softball team was just one out away from capturing a Texas district championship before a series of crucial mistakes left them on the losing end of the game’s final play.
Leading 6-4 over McKinney North with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the final inning, Wylie’s pitcher induced a ground ball to short that should have ended the game and gave her team the win. In fact, that’s exactly what the Wylie players thought had happened. After the throw to second base that they believed had ended the game, several Wylie players began celebrating in the infield tossing their gloves into the air and hugging each other.
There was just one problem: the runner was ruled safe. By the time Wylie had figured out what happened, McKinney North had cleared the bases and walked off with a dramatic 7-6 victory, and all the Wylie players could do was stand there and wonder how they just let the championship slip away.
It certainly was a close play at second, but the ump’s ruling was clearly that the runner was safe, so I have no idea what the players were thinking celebrating like that without even checking to see what the ump had called first.
Chalk that one up to your routine walk-off, three-run fielder’s choice to win a title. Just like they drew it up.
(Via ESPN)
