That’s the way Yahoo! wrote it up, obviously not knowing how else to describe it. The way I see it, A.J. Pierzynski was heads up, while the A’s had their heads up their you know whats.
In the seventh inning Sunday of the game between the White Sox and A’s, Alexei Ramirez hit a grounder to short with Pierzynski on first and none out. Third baseman Adam Rosales and shortstop Cliff Pennington came together on the play, but a major collision was avoided and Pennington still managed to throw out Ramirez at first.
What happened afterwards was pure Little League. Pierzynski noticed no one was covering third and took the base. And then he noticed no one was covering home after catcher Derek Norris followed the play to first base. First baseman Chris Carter had his head down and didn’t see it until too late, and though he tried to race Pierzynski to the plate, Pierzynski had too much of a head start.
While there was plenty of blame to be spread around on the play, the majority of it needs to go to pitcher Evan Scribner, who was just standing around by the mound instead of backing up one of the bases. Norris, too, probably should have been able to make his way back home in the time that Pierzynski was advancing two bases. It was just a mess all around.
