As someone who only knows basic stuff about baseball, I have no idea what's happening there. Anybody care to explain please ?
It's a routine pick-off play at 1st base. The pitcher throws over to try and catch the runner off the base. But in this case:
- Pitcher throws over
- Runner slides back to the base
- 1st baseman catches the ball but fakes the throw back to the pitcher
- Runner doesn't see the fake, assumes the ball got thrown back to the pitcher as happens routinely
- Runner pops up to dust himself off and steps off the base because he believes the pitcher has the ball
- 1st basemen reaches over and tags the runner
- Runner's out T_T