Last night, Brandon Drury and Teoscar Hernandez combined to make one of the weirdest baserunning mistakes in recent memory.
For those of you who haven’t yet seen the play, here’s how it went down:
After taking a 2-2 pitch low for ball three, Drury, erroneously believing that pitch to be the fourth ball, began taking off his batting gear in preparation of a slow jog to first base.
Hernandez, the runner, started walking to second believing Drury had walked. After realizing the mistake (and having several members of the Twins dugout shout it out at him), Twins catcher Mitch Garver threw the ball back to pitcher Martin Perez, who then lobbed the ball over to first baseman C.