The home run is one of the most straightforward rules in sports. The ball goes over the fence, the player gets to circle the bases. But it isn’t always that simple.
In the fourth inning of Sunday’s Triple A game between the Oklahoma City Dodgers and Sacramento River Cats, OKC’s Devin Mann hit a long fly ball deep into the right-center field gap. Bryce Johnson tracked it down on the warning track and the ball landed in his glove for what appeared to be nothing but a long out.
But after Johnson made the catch, his momentum carried him toward the outfield fence. He collided with the wall and in the process, the ball fell out of his glove and over the fence. This prompted a conference by the umpires and after some deliberation, Mann was awarded a home run and allowed to circle the bases.
