For dozens of base runners in MLB, Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz’s “little league home run” on Saturday would have been a single.
A below-average base runner would have gotten a slow jump out of the batter’s box on the fly ball to right field, seen Matt McLain beginning his turn around second base and judged that taking the extra base wasn’t worth risking a run down. A solid base runner would have taken second base when the fly ball kicked off of the right field wall and watched McLain sprint from first-to-home.
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