MESA, Arizona — Keeping score at a spring training game is good practice. Sometimes teams have multiple players with the same uniform number, sometimes there are guys you’ve literally never heard of (there was one of those in this one), and when teams make wholesale changes in an inning, it’s a challenge to keep up.
None of that prepared me for seeing this, though:
That is literally something you see once a year, maybe. Here’s some MLB information covering batting out of order:
If a team bats out of turn, the onus is not on the umpires to notify either team of the transgression.