OAKLAND – A’s outfielder Mark Canha and taken his helmet off and had slowed his run to a trot Wednesday after it appeared Ketel Marte of the Arizona Diamondbacks had made a rally-killing running catch in the second inning before crashing into the center-field wall.
Canha put his helmet back on then started to sprint again after the ball popped out of Marte’s glove and rested on the warning track. By the time the ball was thrown back into the infield by a perplexed Marte, two A’s runs had scored and Canha was at third base.
The play, and the ensuing review by Major League Baseball, was pivotal, as the A’s never trailed in what turned into a 4-0 win at the Coliseum.
“I was getting ready to spike my helmet on the ground in frustration,” said Canha, who initially thought he had a home run.
“My helmet was actually off my head and in my hand getting ready to throw it, and I just saw the ball on the ground. I was like, ‘Oh, I see what looks like a ball on the ground’ and just ran.”
On the play, Canha drove a Matt Peacock changeup to near straightaway center field. Marte tracked it down, made the catch, and went into the wall. The ball was still in his glove when he came away from the fence but dropped out a split-second later.
“I actually saw it go into his glove and I saw him carry the ball into the wall,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said. “I put my head down … and then glanced up and saw that the ball was rolling down on the ground. At that point, I figured out what happened, that the ball was jarred loose by the wall, which can’t happen. But he never really secured the ball.
“So, when I was out there with the umpire talking about the play, I could see that the ball was never secured in his glove and it was kind of sliding out in a very early point in that contact with the wall. So, the umpires got it right.”
The Diamondbacks think Ketel Marte fielded the last out of the inning but it was ruled a dropped ball and two runs scored pic.twitter.com/qlvsNaOluO
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Tony Kemp and Elvis Andrus scored on the play, which was reviewed by MLB but upheld as a Canha triple.
Rule 5.09(a)(1) states in part that a catch is not made if a player “simultaneously or immediately following his contact with the ball, he collides with a player, or with a wall, or if he falls down, and as a result of such collision or falling, drops the ball.”
“He’s got to control it all the way and once he hits the wall, he’s got to come out of that in control of it, and he wasn’t,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said. “So I don’t think it was really too hard to call for them. It looks like it’s secured, but as he’s making his way to the wall, it’s still kind of fumbling around. Then when he hit the wall, it came out.”
The A’s next batter, Jed Lowrie, hit a ball back up the middle that Peacock tried to barehand. The ball, though, deflected off Peacock’s right hand and toward the shortstop spot, which Nick Ahmed had vacated to try and field Lowrie’s grounder. Canha scored on the play for a 3-0 A’s lead and Peacock had to leave the game.
It was another frustrating sequence for the Diamondbacks, who now have lost 19 straight road games dating back to April 25 in Atlanta.
“The ball that was in and out of Ketel’s glove in center field was something that I think created a little bit of that deficit early on,” Lovullo said, “and we could never really come back from that.”
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