How Diamondbacks' ball boy gifted White Sox's Sam Antonacci an inside-the-park HR
This was a painful moment for Arizona.
How Diamondbacks' ball boy gifted White Sox's Sam Antonacci an inside-the-park HR originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . It was already a bad night for the Arizona Diamondbacks when Sam Antonacci lined a ball the other way down the third-base line.
The Chicago White Sox youngster hit it well, but things got weird when it rolled toward the corner and the Diamondbacks' ball boy down the left-field line. It was a fair ball, but the staffer down the line attempted to field it with a glove. The play wasn't made, but the ball was deflected, and it sort of settled weakly next to the foul line.
Arizona left-fielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr. essentially turned off his playing switch at this point. He saw what happened, and assumed the baseball was either foul or that it would be ruled a dead ball and Antonacci would be granted two bases.
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