Baseball has a way of showing you something you’ve never seen before. Your team plays 162 games, each made up of dozens of plays and hundreds of pitches and countless moments in between, resulting in a daily flood of new data points. There’s always some new and different way that a ball can hop, and just when you think you’ve seen it all, you find out you haven’t.
Oakland A’s fans were treated to one of these novelties on Thursday, and it helped them win a game. The short version is that they scored on a foulout that didn’t even make it past the infield.