The other night in Boston, Lorenzo Cain scored the funniest run of his life.
You probably saw it. The Royals outfielder was on first when Eric Hosmer crashed a line drive into the Green Monster. Cain is one of baseball’s fastest players, and was running on contact, but the outfielder caught it clean off the wall and had a cutoff man with a good arm and perfect position for a throw home, so third-base coach Mike Jirschele threw up a stop sign.
Cain ran through it, and got lucky when the outfielder either missed his cutoff man or threw to the wrong one.