Giants Make History With Walk-off Inside-the-park Home Run

Patrick Bailey’s entranceway into nan Major League Baseball grounds books connected Tuesday nighttime began pinch a tight plaything that sent a fastball from Phillies reliever Jordan Romano into Triples Alley.

It ended pinch Bailey chugging his measurement astir 3rd guidelines past getting mobbed astatine location sheet by his teammates aft becoming nan 3rd catcher successful awesome convention history to deed a game-ending, inside-the-park location run.

The three-run changeable had an exit velocity of 103.4 mph and bounced disconnected nan ceramic wall astatine nan Giants waterfront ballpark. It ricocheted backmost toward halfway section arsenic Nick Castellanos and Brandon Marsh gave chase.

Bailey said his first thought was to get a triple earlier he saw 3rd guidelines coach Matt Williams waving him in.

“Off nan shot I conscionable knew I sewage it well,” Bailey said. “I saw it was towards Triples Alley and I was like, ‘Oh I gotta go. I astatine slightest gotta get to third.’ Once I saw nan bounce, I was for illustration ‘All right, conscionable don’t autumn over.’ ”

It’s nan ninth clip this play that nan Giants person won successful their last at-bat, tops successful nan majors.

It was besides nan first clip successful astir 9 years that a subordinate has deed a walk-off, inside-the-park location tally successful nan majors. Cleveland’s Tyler Naquin was nan past to do truthful connected 19 August, 2016.

The three-run location tally lifted nan Giants to a 4-3 triumph that had nan Oracle Park crowd roaring arsenic Bailey crossed nan plate.

“He has gotten immoderate large hits this year,” Giants head Bob Melvin said. “In large situations he’s travel through. Not arsenic overmuch arsenic he would like. Hopefully that’s thing that catapults him. Haven’t seen him thrust a shot for illustration that successful a while.”

Bailey couldn’t callback if he had antecedently deed an inside-the-park location tally astatine immoderate level. And arsenic bully arsenic this 1 was, Bailey said that he would person preferred to deed a regular location run.

“Tired,” Bailey said erstwhile asked really he felt. “I wished it would person gone complete nan fence.”