Philadelphia Phillies reliever Connor Brogdon struggled mightily to find the strike zone after he entered the game against the Cincinnati Reds in the Top of the 10th. Rob Manfred’s ghost-runner was on 2B in the form of Bubba Thompson, and perhaps that tickled Brogdon’s mind enough to keep him off-keel.
Will Benson walked, and both he and Thompson promptly moved up bags by way of a double steal. Jonathan India then walked, too, loading the bases for Spencer Steer in extra innings against a guy who’d been all over the map with his deliveries thus far.
Brogdon opened Steer’s account with a pair of balls, too, before finally humming a meatball down the pipe to make it a 2-1 count.