Horrendous Base Running by Nationals Leads to Double Play 

One more thing that happened to the Yankees’ credit: After the second runner was tagged out, he immediately threw to second base. If the runner was even a little off the base, they had a chance at a triple play.

I have a feeling that it's easier to coach a base from the last row of the top deck than to be on the field and forget to use your per-riffial vision. My immediate reaction at the beginning was to just send the runner home, because I could see the other two runners practically roasting weenies on 2b and 3b. Worst result: one out, men on 2b & 3b with a turkey roasted at home.

I liked how you spelled out the running issues but didn’t just leave it there but also gave credit to the great defense.

Great analysis. ALL THREE outfielders, including Judge, ended up on the infield dirt, available for any useful role.

Runner on first should have stopped halfway on the initial hit if runner on second was tagging. Not being in a full sprint. Batter, when he was at second had opportunity to get back to first before anyone was there to cover.

Terrific analysis by Antonelli

Give the 1st baseman a thumbs up for moving back between 1st and 2nd to get the batter out for the second out. He was moving before the runner did. He knew what was going to happen.

Maybe the base runner standing on 3rd base doesn’t make the mistake of running back to 2nd base if the 3rd base coach doesn’t go AWOL in the middle of a play with a lot of action and traffic in his area. I’m glad this 3rd base coach is not an air traffic controller.

Unmentioned was that when the second out was made, Judge had run in and was backing up second base. It would have been amusing to see him get a putout.

Great breakdown. One misspeak worth correcting. If Gallo and trailing runner both take third as they should have, the defense would tag both and the trailing runner would be called out, not Gallo. The lead runner (in this case Gallo) has the right to the bag, the trailer cant share the bag or pass the lead runner.

That was hilarious. Went from an almost 100% guarantee loaded bases and probably a score to two out.

The third base coach should have sent Gallo home, even if only as a sacrificial out.

Outstanding analysis as always!

Nationals fan here. Watched this game last night and SCREAMING at the TV during this play. The Nats are #1 at running themselves out of a promising inning.

Great breakdown, Matt! Hey!! Can you do a breakdown of the DP that started with Judge robbing a tater, then throwing to Torrez, who threw to LeMahieu for the DP?? I believe it included a great, bullseye throw for a perfect relay, combined with a baserunning gaff.

This is a novelty... usually in these videos the base coaches are just uselessly taking up space, but this one's presence actually made the play way worse than it otherwise would've been.

The screwup was mostly on the lead runner and the 3rd base coach. Neither could think beyond 1 second of the immediate situation, and converted it from 1-out with two base runners on 2nd & 3rd, to 2-outs with one runner on 2nd. Wow..That was horrible.

My biggest issue is the coach. If you're going to be disgusted, be disgusted AFTER the game in the dugout. The runners still needed him to direct traffic. Turning around doesn't help.

This is on the 3B coach…I would have had Galo continue on for a play at the plate and hold the next runner.

Runner at second (Gallo) was 4th most culpable for that disaster, following runner at first, 3rd base coach and first base coach.

This was very informative. Love your videos matt!!

As soon as I watched this play, I knew Matt would be covering it on his channel.

The runner at first initially made the correct read by getting off first far enough to give himself the best opportunity to score, while also giving himself enough time to get back to first in the event of a circus catch. But the runner at first should not have continued to follow the runner at second so close on the way to third. The runner at first needed to hang back to make sure he did not overrun the runner in front of him, even if it results in the runner from first not advancing past second. The batter runner needs to also watch the runner in front of him to make sure he does not overrun him in turn. Once both runners got hung up on third, the trailing runner should have just taken third and accepted the out and the resulting 2nd and 3rd situation. The runner approaching third should not have tried to get back to second

I think at the big league level you still could pull off a double play with both runners on 3rd, since the rules are tricky and a lot of players don't seem to know them (or the rareness of the play combined with the urgency makes them forget momentarily). Tag Gallo, so you get a guaranteed out, then tag the trail runner (who will not be out in this situation). When the umpire calls Gallo out, there's a decent chance that the trail runner will think that the umpire has called him out, so he'll step off the bag. Tag him again at that point. Double play. If you're on offense and you find yourself on the same base as a teammate and the defense has the ball and is tagging you or your teammate, stand on the bag until the umpire calls "time". Do not move. The umpires will sort everything out once the ball is dead. If you're the defense in that situation, tag everybody within reach who isn't touching the bag. Tag the runners. Tag your teammate. Tag the umpire, if he's there. Tag everyone and keep tagging different people until the umpires call time.

It came close to being a triple play for the Yankees. I think the second base runner was caught sleeping which caused this to backfire all over the place for the Nationals

Yea also as a base runner you have to know how many outs that there are at all times because usually what happens on a deep fly ball towards the wall. Is that you have to read this ball and whether or not the outfielder is going to catch the ball or not and typically you can do this two ways. So one of them is with less than 2 outs you are taught to go halfway and if you see this ball is going to get caught then go back to tag. Also as a base runner you are taught if you are caught in a rundown like in this situation to stay in the rundown as long as you can so that the runner can advance to the next base and to just give yourself up. So this was just bad base running on the Nationals part

4:51 typing his resignation? DUDE! YOU'VE STILL GOT WORK TO DO! If you're not resigning - you're FIRED!

Third base coach should have never stopped Gallow. Should have just left him out to dry at that point. That leaves runners at 2nd and 3rd with 1 out.

How did the 3rd base coach not wave on the lead runner? They had no outs....worst that coulda happened is dude's out at home.

at the HS JV level, these kind of things are common. On this play, yeah Gallo should be half way... then once seeing that both trail runners have advanced... give up.. let them have 1 out instead.. they give up two.

Amazingly, there was no interference on the Yankees with all those base runners running around everywhere. That was about the Nationals only hope.

I love the idea of the manager provoking an ejection just so that he can leave.

I think the couch should be better at reading his base runners. Once he saw the two trailing runners had reached second and third, he should have let the lead runner come home for a play at the plate. Worse case - one out.

Great analysis....!! You da man Antonelli!

None of the Nats baserunners were paying enough attention to the runner in front of them or what the defense was doing behind them. The odds of escaping a rundown by retreating a base go down dramatically when the defense isn't caught off guard.

I am a long time Washington baseball fan. All the way back to Griffith Stadium and the Senators. I watched this happen live. I think it is a new low.

Mostly this is on the 3rd base coach. He should've waved Gallo home to save the runners at second and third.

The runner at second should not commit either way on that ball. The runner at second needs to give himself the best opportunity to score as a primary objective, while also giving himself the option to go back and tag in the unlikely event of a circus catch. The worst case scenario should be that the runner on second is not able to tag, the runner on second should never put himself in a position that he can't even score on a ball crushed way over the CFer's head. The read for the runner on second on a fly ball to the outfield is one of the toughest reads, but you do not tag on that ball until outfielder is camped under it, or is highly likely to catch it. I think the runner on second would basically freeze in place after the secondary lead when the ball is hit and the runner would read the play from there. The runner at second would creep back toward second as the fielder closed in on the hit and could either go back and tag from there if necessary, or would have a six or seven step head start when the ball falls

Right fielder looks like he got replaced by a spider, haha! Someone tell him he’s playing too shallow.

Here’s what I see, third base coach shoulda sent the runner, threw up the stop sign too late……my take. Just a quick view…..

it's usually the Yankees running HUA.... then again, it may have been Gallo a few times for them too...

I agreed with everything you said....until 7:58 when you praised Volpe and Torres for both standing side-by-side in short center waiting for the cut-off. That was the *CORRECT* position for both players??? The shortstop and second baseman are both supposed to run to the same spot????

3B Coach needs a double 🥃 whiskey!! 😄

That should have ended with runners on 2nd and 3rd with a run scored. Gallo screwed up by waiting so long at 2nd then running through the stop sign from the 3rd base coach, 1st base coach should have also recognized what was happening and stopped the batter-runner at 1st, R1 should have recognized how close he was to Gallo and not nearly overrun him, and 3rd base coach seemed to have given up on the play instead of keeping focus.

I think third base coach not hustling back to third made this worse. If he had made it back, he could have told runner to stay put.

This is Shaq’tin a Fool MLB Edition 😂😂🤦🏻‍♂️

Gallo has got to fall on that sword. Keep running home. Get tagged out, and you still have runners on second and third with one out.

....and how exactly is that scored on the sheet?

I dont know what verdugo was doing but if he wouldve been covering 2nd base and not being a spectator 3 feet away from it when jazz was chasing the runner back to 2nd they wouldve had a triple play.

they managed to turn a really stupid out into a very very very obscene double play. thats pretty special on thier part. they should have had bases loaded nobody out at the very least.

Time for a followup video: "What do 3rd base coaches really do?"

Couple years ago, Albert Pujols was touting Yepez as the next……Albert Pujols. I’m not sure that panned out.

The base coach's only job is to base coach, both when the ball is live and when the ball is dead. If the base coach loses his cool and disengages when the ball is live and his players desperately need base coaching, because they are making mental mistakes, as all players do, from time to time, why are we employing a base coach? He only has one job. He's a base coach. If he's going to not base coach when players are running bases, we really don't need him. Base runners make mistakes all of the time. The only job of a base coach is help prevent and mitigate. Walking away from three base runners during a live ball is a disgrace.

First, Im sure Gallo remembers the great catch Judge made to rob a HR the night before. Second, he knows hes slow, so hes not going to be able to lead off the base then return if its caught. Third, the coach is ridiculously far down the line(he is coaching more than 1 runner isnt he?). Once Gallo stops at 3rd the coach shouldve been close enough to the bag to tell both runners to just stand on the base. I know it helter skelter but this is the big leagues. Coach has to see both lead runners were doomed

How was this play scored? Did the batter get a single or a double or was it a fielder's choice? Also, going back to some recent videos, it looked like the first base coach was telling the hitter/baserunner to go to 2nd. Wild play.

What finally ended this sh!tshow is the first baseman pinched in trapped the runner between first and second for a quick tag rather than waiting with his keyster over his base. The third baseman should have pinched in for a quicker tag on Gallo when the catcher ran Gallo back to third, then, the second baseman should have pinched in when the third baseman ran the runner back to second.

I love when there is chaos on the bases 😂

I think this is proof that we're living in a simulation and somebody pressed the wrong button on the game controller...

So not a base hit even though he got to 2nd before any outs as he hit into a double play.?

Gallo helping the Yankees more on the Nationals than he did on the Yankees

FIRE that 3rd base coach!! He GAVE UP, and COST them a SECOND OUT!!!

Sometimes baseball players make football players look like geniuses

I don’t know why Joey Gallo was held up in the first place. It looks like he would’ve been safe.

There is nothing to fear but fear itself. ...and shallow outfield spiders!

Start the Benny Hill music...!

Dude on second has no ability to read a hit baseball. Obvious due to the read of the guy on ffirst. Who stands on the base when an OF is running at a full sprint towards the wall with no outs? Worst case scenario, Gallo stays at third, guy on second gets out, and we have 1st and 3rd with one out. Or 2nd and third.

unless you tagged early, never run back.

Are you kidding? There's no better camera view?

so the only guy thats safe is the one that fucked up the most.

You sacrifice gallo at home and you end up with 2nd 3rd one out.

You have to watch the runner in front of you.

Coaches should have stayed on 3rd and cleared up the mess instead of giving up and walking away

he doubled into a double play

Nearly a triple play.

Frankly, I blame the base coach for this fiasco.

WRONG!!!! The runner from first is NOT SUPPOSED to ALSO TAG up!!!

Yikes!

Um….THIRD BASE was…GALLO’s BAG!!!!

The 3rd base coach's reaction is great!

Should have let Gallo go home.

Horrible base running. 0:30 2nd and 3rd ,one out ? Nope ,runner on 2nd and two outs

Just like the Yankees drew it up.

facepalm

Thats embarrassing at this level of baseball. Lol

When two runners occupy a base at the same time the trail runner is out if both runners are tagged. The base belongs to the lead runner.

How is the lead runner soooooooo sloooooooowwwwwww

dude get a better mic

Yikes!