Bizarre call helps White Sox avoid sweep Posted on August 26th
Baseball games don’t come any more bizarre — or more meaningful — than the White Sox’s 10-inning, 6-5 victory Sunday over Tampa Bay.
There’s the big picture: The Sox jumped from out of the playoffs to first place in the AL Central by a half-game.
And then there’s the A.J. Pierzynski picture, which never seems to be in black and white.
Pierzynski scored the winning run after another controversial baserunning play that only the baseball gods could have designed. And umpire Doug Eddings was right in the middle of the ruling, as he was in the 2005 AL Championship Series against the Angels, when Pierzynski was awarded first base on a third strike on a play that led to the winning run.
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