With the Cubs and Cardinals scoreless in the bottom of the 3rd, Matt Wieters doubled to give the home team a great chance to take an early lead. St. Louis starter Miles Mikolas then dribbled a ball to the left side that Javy Báez scooped up and fired to David Bote, who was covering first.
The throw was both late and wide and Mikolas would have beaten it cleanly, but replay revealed that he’d pulled the bush-league A-Rod move of reaching out to slap/grap Bote’s arm on the way by.