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A 60-Foot Dribbler Turns Into An Inside-The-Park HR As The Miami Marlins Sum Up Their Season

There comes a point in every man’s life when there’s just nothing left to say, and that was probably last night for Ozzie Guillen. The Los Angeles Dodgers were leading the Miami Marlins 8-4 in the bottom of the seventh inning with runners on first and second when 3B Luis Cruz chopped a ball up the third base line. Cruz’s 3B counterpart, Greg Dobbs, barehanded the grounder and submarined an errant throw to first (which Carlos Lee could have picked) that caromed off the wall behind first base and into right field. Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier, the two runners on base, subsequently scored.

Alas, there’s more. Marlins’ RF Giancarlo Stanton lollygagged his way to the ball, mindlessly picking it up and tossing the ball over to third. Except no one was there because Dobbs’ momentum had carried him towards home plate, and Jose Reyes hadn’t meandered over to third base quite yet. Reyes then halfheartedly lunged at the oncoming ball, which slid right by him and went into the dugout. Cruz, who was on his way to third after the throw sailed past the third base line, was awarded home plate. And so our sad story ends, the little dribbler that could.

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