Just about two months ago, the Pittsburgh Pirates were on the wrong side of perhaps the most embarrassing baseball blunder we’ve ever seen — allowing a run to score on a first-to-home rundown with two outs (!!!). Like, I still can’t believe that happened.
But baseball is the kind of game that doesn’t care if you’re a first-place team or a last-place team. No player is totally protected from the jaw-dropping blunder.
On Sunday, it happened to be Mets pitcher Taijuan Walker’s turn to embarrass himself. And this time, the Pittsburgh Pirates were the ones to benefit from the huge — and I mean HUGE — mistake.
