World Series Game 4 ends in first-ever game-ending pickoff
(PHOTO: Jeff Curry/USA TODAY Sports)
The Red Sox entered the bottom of the ninth inning of Sunday night’s
World Series Game 3 with a 4-2 lead over the Cardinals and dominant
closer Koji Uehara taking the mound. But St. Louis threatened when Allen
Craig singled to bring the tying run to the plate with one out.
Kolten Wong pinch-ran for the hobbled Craig, then Matt Carpenter
popped out to second for the second out of the inning. The
ever-dangerous Carlos Beltran came to the plate next, but wound up
staying there.
Wong, the pinch runner, did the main thing pinch runners should not
do. Maybe stealing second would have taken away the force, but just
getting to scoring position isn’t going to make a huge difference when
the tying and winning runs are behind you. But then those are risks a
manager takes when he uses a 23-year-old with all of 38 games on his
Major League resume in a big spot in a World Series games.
One night after they lost the first World Series game to ever end on an obstruction call, the Red Sox won the first World Series game to ever end on a pickoff.
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