Minor League Team Loses After HR Hitter Fails To Touch Home Plate

There are bad losses, then there are bad losses, and somewhere well past that are losses where your ninth-inning go-ahead home run doesn’t count because you didn’t touch home plate after rounding the bases.

The Delmarva Shorebirds (Orioles’ single-A affiliate) were down a run to the Augusta GreenJackets (Giants) in the top of the ninth, with a man on, when Elier Leyva hit a two-run home run that should have given Delmarva the lead. But Augusta appealed, claiming Leyva had failed to touch the plate. He was called out, because they were absolutely right:

Leyva was credited with a triple and called out at home, and the game went to extra innings, where the GreenJackets won on a walkoff single in the tenth.

H/t Adam.