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Old Wed Feb 16, 2005, 06:20pm
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Sounds like the "winning" play in the Haddix 12 inning perfect game. Joe Adcock hit the winning HR in the 13th with two on, passed a runner, and only one run counted.

Yes. The play began with Felix Mantilla on 2B and Hank Aaron on 1B with 1 out. Joe Adcock hit a ball that just barely cleared the chain-link fence, and Aaron thought it was still in the park. When he saw Mantilla score, Aaron, after touching 2B, started toward his dugout. Adcock then passed him and was called out. Aaron, hearing his coaches screaming, then continued around the bases, so the score was originally announced as 2-0. But the league changed it the next day, ruling that Adcock's "homer" was actually a double, so only Mantilla's run counted.

If the play had occurred in, say, the sixth inning, Aaron's run would have counted.

[Edited by greymule on Feb 25th, 2005 at 11:07 AM]
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