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In the bottom of the ninth in the Chicago White Sox’s home stand versus the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday night, Chicago outfielder Andrew Benintendi hit a fly ball that was ruled out with the infield fly guideline, as the ball was captured without concern by Baltimore 3rd baseman Gunnar Henderson.
Rather than Chicago taking its 2nd out of the inning and having one last out to shot and either tie the 8-6 videogame or win it straight-out, the umpires ruled the videogame over by stating Chicago veryfirst baseman Andrew Vaughn was also out on the play for disturbance on Henderson as he returned to 2nd base.
The astounding two-out series provided the Orioles the disconcerting success and sentout White Sox supervisor Pedro Grifol out to the diamond to plead his case as to why this was simply not the right call.
Replay revealed that Vaughn innocently brushed Henderson’s shoulder while heading back to 2nd base and didn’t interfere with the catch in the smallest, as Va