San Diego Padres third baseman Manny Machado hidden ball trick went wrong Saturday night, leading to a run for the Boston Red Sox in the third inning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With Jarren Duran on third after Alex Bregman was caught in a rundown, Machado held onto the ball and tagged Duran after he took a lead. The play would have resulted in an out, but pitcher Wandy Peralta was standing on the rubber without the ball, triggering a balk that allowed Duran to score and put Boston ahead 2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Had Peralta been off the mound for example, at the rosin bag, the play would have been legal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI thought it was a great baseball play. I\u2019ll take some responsibility,\u201d Padres manager Mike Shildt said. \u201cYou just can\u2019t be on the rubber when that happens. Manny\u2019s IQ shows up again, but it\u2019s something we didn\u2019t work on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
San Diego Padres third baseman Manny Machado hidden ball trick went wrong Saturday night, leading to a run for the Boston Red Sox in the third inning. With Jarren Duran on third after Alex Bregman was caught in a rundown, Machado held onto the ball and tagged Duran after he took a lead. The play would have resulted in an out, but pitcher Wandy Peralta was standing on the rubber without the ball, triggering a balk that allowed Duran to score and put Boston ahead 2-1. Had Peralta been off the mound for example, at the rosin bag, the play would have been legal. \u201cI thought it was a great baseball play. I\u2019ll take some responsibility,\u201d Padres manager Mike Shildt said. \u201cYou just can\u2019t be on the rubber when that happens. Manny\u2019s IQ shows up again, but it\u2019s something we didn\u2019t work on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,531,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-sport-football-news","category-news-2","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n