Dbacks let injured runner limp home to score, a breakdown
What Happened
In a July 2021 game between the Brewers and Diamondbacks, Milwaukee mounted a strange rally that featured Daniel Vogelbach badly straining his hamstring on the bases. After Vogelbach reached and stayed at first through a parade of matchup-driven pitching changes, a hit sent him chugging toward the plate. He pulled up lame rounding third, hobbling in obvious pain, but the Arizona defense never relayed the ball home. A run scored on a play where a healthy throw likely gets the injured runner by a wide margin, capping an inning full of Diamondbacks miscues.
Why This Matters
This is a textbook lesson in baseball awareness and how a string of by-the-book LOOGY moves can backfire. Arizona burned arms to win lefty-righty matchups, then walked and got hit anyway, which is the risk of over-managing a single inning. The bigger gaffe was defensive. When a runner is visibly hurt and barely jogging, the infield has to recognize it and cut the ball off for the easy out. Instead nobody threw home, and Vogelbach limped across the plate. The injury was real and serious, costing him roughly six weeks. For the Diamondbacks, this fit a brutal 2021 season in which they lost 110 games, and small breakdowns like this one piled up all year. A rare case where the hurt guy scores because the defense fell asleep.
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Who / What Is Involved
Players: Daniel Vogelbach. Teams: Diamondbacks.
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Click timestamps to jump to that momentthis ending the Brewers versus the
D-backs had a lot of action on the base
path first you got the first out long
getting caught stealing nice throw by
the catcher there and then on the base
path that you have Vogelbach just using
his speed as an advantage forcing bad
plays from the defense busting it down
the line he's on first base and he's
safe the D-backs have the Lefty in to
face the Lefty and he's going to strike
Yelich out good job by him so then they
take him out because the right he's
coming up they only need one more out
we'll have this righty come in to face
the righty he'll get the last out of the
inning all will be glorious bogey is
still on first base and the righty is
now pitching and he walks the righty So
the plan goes to because now the
righty has to face a lefty and at this
point you wish you would have just kept
the Lefty in and he gets a hit and
Vogelbach is Off to the Races outfielder
gets the ball he's gonna throw it in and
the infielders don't even throw it home
because they don't realize that vogelbak
pulled his hamstring or strained it
really bad and the catcher screaming at
him and the coach says awful just awful
and here he is comes up lame around
third the hamstring real bad he's in a
lot of pain at this point he's like are
they gonna throw me out oh they're
not going to throw me out I gotta run
home catchers are screaming four four
four they don't throw it home the
pitcher is behind and he sees him and
he's pointing and he says come on go go
go go go go go go go go go go go go go
damn it
the Run scores D-backs just not paying
attention Vogelbach hurt severe
hamstring strain I think he uh missing
they said six weeks I think we're well
into that six weeks here so hopefully by
the time this video is being released
he's doing much better he's a cool dude
came on the show Once talked to us
Tuesday Brews day so yeah he got hurt
but you know nice of the D-backs to let
him score and then later in this inning
weird stuff was still happening that
gets punched into right and instead of
catching it it doesn't catch it right at
his feet so that scores another run and
another run
just a big inning by the Brew Crew on
really kind of odd baseball because now
they're going to make another pitching
change and say all right righty you're
out of here we're going to bring in the
Lefty to face the Lefty and then the
Lefty doesn't even have to face the
Lefty because he's just gonna pick the
runner off and then he goes to Second
and they're like wait actually let's
focus on the runner at home and he's out
what a weird inning