Obviously, we will never know what might have happened had Dodgers pinch-runner Hyeseong Kim not been doubled up at second base on a hard line drive out to Red Sox second baseman Ceddanne Rafaela by Dodgers right fielder Teoscar Hernández for a rare unassisted double play for the final out of the top of the eighth inning in the Dodgers 4-3 loss to the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on Sunday to drop the three-game series two games to one on Sunday – but you just never know.
(SportsNet LA)
In fairness to Kim, Dodgers All-Star first baseman Freddie Freeman, the next Dodgers batter who led off the top of the ninth, struck out swinging, which would have ended that fateful top of the eighth anyway – but you just never know.
As for those three Dodgers runs, the first came on a bases-loaded walk of Freeman by former Dodgers right-hander Walker Buehler in the top of the third, the second on a solo home run to center by Dodgers left fielder Michael Conforto to lead off the top of the fourth, and the third on a fourth inning RBI single to center by Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts following a walk and stolen base by Dodgers second baseman Miguel Rojas.
Although “Baseball is a game of inches,” and “It is what it is,” this one might have ended differently but for Kim’s baserunning blunder – but you just never know.
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