Smith's Walkout Strikeout: Baseball's Wild Script

On April 1st, in a wild baseball moment during the Houston Astros 9-2 win over the Boston

Red Sox on Tuesday at Dacken Park, Ryfielder Cam.

Smith pulled off the impossible, a strikeout that turned into a walk.

It happened in the 5th inning during Houston's 3-run rally.

Smith swung and missed three straight pitches from Boston's starter, Brian Bello, but played

on Pyre Mark Wagner, never called the third strike, and instead, signaled a 1-2 count.

Smith got distracted by Chaos on the base's teammate Joey Loper-Fito stole second, scoring

Christian Walker on a throwing air, then took third on.

Another miscue, Smith glanced at the scoreboard, saw what he thought was a 1-1 count, and kept

battling.

Facing six more pitches with some fouls mixed in, Smith threw the walk on the 9th pitch

of the at bat.

He didn't end up scoring, but if fueled the Astros big inning, baseball's full of these

head scratchers, and even the umped-mitted post-game video review showed the mix-up proof

that sometimes the game writes its own crazy scripts.

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