Dee Gordon broke the tie thanks to a 40-foot Little League 'home run'
When games reach extra innings, it can sometimes feel like no team will ever score a run again. That certainly seemed the case in the Marlins' 6-3 victory against the Padres, as the teams headed into the 11th inning tied at 2. At that point, no runner had crossed the plate since the sixth inning -- thanks in part to
Runs, like life, find a way, though. Dee Gordon proved that. With
Fortunately for the Marlins,
If you want a diagram of the event, here's a helpful one:
Padres manager Andy Green wasn't pleased. "One of the uglier plays you'll see. … Swinging bunt, which kind of throws off the defensive vibe a little bit," the skipper told MLB.com's Jay Paris. "Solarte is supposed to come aggressively to first base on the bunt. But the swing froze him for a second. By the time we picked that baseball up, there's nobody on first base. We've got a young guy on the mound, it's a big situation. We tried to make a throw, and there was nobody there."
Oddly enough, Gordon's time around the bases was 16.9 seconds -- a full second slower than
While Gordon's home run went almost directly into the ground,