Hunter Pence hits a bizarre, uncontested inside-the-park home run at Fenway

[Brother Buzz]

LOL, he crossed home plate before the ball was even fielded! This Hunter's first series ever played at Fenway, and boy howdy, he gave the people of Boston something to talk about.

Hunter Pence hits a bizarre, uncontested inside-the-park home run at Fenway

Nobody bothered to challenge Pence on the basepaths after an outfield misplay

11 June, 2019

Tuesday night's game between the Red Sox and Rangers at Fenway Park was basically a clinic in weird baseball. It saw a starter need more than 70 pitches to get through three innings. It saw both managers get ejected. It saw an inside-the-park home run, and a pretty bizarre one at that.

Rangers outfielder Hunter Pence kept a two-run homer in the yard during the sixth inning, but it wasn't a particularly high-stress inside-the-park dinger. Those typically feature a close play at the plate, but this one failed to have an outfielder even challenge the runner.

It happened when Pence smacked a ball to right field that was totally misplayed by Brock Holt, who ran into the corner wall as he attempted to make a heroic catch. After whiffing on that attempt, Holt just watched the baseball carom off the wall near Pesky's Pole and roll to the 380 sign on the outfield fence. Meanwhile, Pence just cruised to an easy four-bagger.

In fact, Pence crossed home plate before a Red Sox outfielder even picked up the baseball. Mookie Betts eventually retrieved the ball but by then the runs were already on the board.

[rurallib]

1. "Hit 'em where they a'int" quoth Wee Willie Keeler

Eventually that ended up where there was nobody

[Brother Buzz]

2. It was near sleepy Mookie Betts....

but he was to busy watching Hunter Pence running the bases like a rotary telephone thrown into a running clothes dryer, and wondering why he wasn't running at the normal home run victory pace.

[enough]

3. An outfield misplay? Is that an Error for the fielder? NT

[Brother Buzz]

4. The ball never touched Brock Holt's glove

It was a mental error, not a fielding error because Brock Holt thought the ball had left the park