Crazy bottom of ninth ends with A's scoring game winner on error
May 6, 2006
CBS SportsLine.com wire reports
..........Payton stole his first base -- if you can truly call it that -- in a silly, second-inning play for the A's.
Everybody lost track of the pitch count and Payton jogged to second when Johnson headed toward first thinking he had drawn a walk. But it was only ball three. The ball was thrown back to McClung, who glanced to the dugout and saw Maddon hold up three fingers, but by that time it was too late to make a throw and no fielders were covering second base anyway.............
I wonder if Brian O'Nora had an indicator?
