Evidently, all’s fair in baseball. When the Red Sox and Astros met up for a weekend series, fans expected two of the best teams in the American League to battle intensely. Only, someone forgot to account for the head-to-head matchup in the stands.
When a fair ball bounded past the third base bag with two outs in the bottom of the second inning on Saturday, an Astros fan reached over the short wall and made contact with the ball. As a result, George Springer was awarded second base. He would end up being stranded at second, so no harm was done, but the Red Sox would go on to lose 7-1.