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Looking back at some of the most bizarre finishes in sports
What a finish. What a bizarre finish.
The Canadian men’s baseball team defended its Pan Am Games gold medal in the oddest of fashions on Sunday night.
It’s difficult to sum this up quickly because the conclusion was truly wacky.
With the final between Canada and the United States tied 4-4 after nine innings, the tournament’s twilight extra-innings rules were invoked.
The top of the 10th began with no outs, but with American runners on first and second base. They were permitted to start their batting order at their choosing. The Americans scored twice.
Canada had scored once in the bottom half when chaos ensued. With runners on first and second, American reliever David Huff tried a pickoff attempt at first. His throw was wide, allowing Skyler Stromsmoe to score from second. There was another botched try at third and one more at home before Peter Orr came all the way around from first.
Orr’s winning run and Canada’s gold medal win brings to mind some other wacky endings to games.
Down goes Polanco
It was just this past May 15 when the Chicago Cubs had the bases loaded with one out in the bottom of the 12th inning. The score was tied at 10.
Matt Szczur popped the ball up to shallow right field. It looked like an easy catch for Pittsburgh’s Gregory Polanco. The only question seemed to be: Would the Cubs test his arm?
We’ll never know. Polanco stumbled and fell, watching helplessly as the ball hit the outfield grass.
You can almost hear the late Harry Caray now.
“Starlin Castro scores. Cubs win. Cubs win.”
Lakers win with four
The Los Angeles Lakers dressed only eight players for a February 2014 game against the Cleveland Cavaliers. And then they started dropping like flies.
Nick Young left with a knee injury. Chris Kaman fouled out in the fourth quarter. Jordan Farmar then departed with a leg ailment.
When Robert Sacre was called for his sixth foul with 3:32 left in the fourth quarter, the Lakers were reduced to four players. However, league rules prevent teams from playing with less than five players.
So Sacre was assessed a technical foul and was permitted to stay in the game.
The Lakers would close out a 119-108 victory with just four eligible players.
He’s picked off
The St. Louis Cardinals trailed by two runs in the ninth inning of Game 4 of the 2013 World Series, but had the tying run on first.
With two outs, slugger Carlos Beltran stepped to the plate. He never completed his at bat.
Cardinals’ Kolten Wong was picked off at first base by Boston Red Sox closer Koji Uehara.
The 4-2 win tied the series. The Sox went on to win the next two contests to secure their third championship in 10 years.
Does it count?
It’s an interception. It’s a touchdown. It’s a ...
That was the utter confusion on the last play of a Monday night NFL game between the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks on Sept. 24, 2012.
With the Packers up by five points on the last play of the game, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson launched a Hail Mary pass downfield.
Seattle receiver Golden Tate and Green Bay’s M.D. Jennings fought for the ball in the air and then wrestled for it as they hit the turf.
One official ruled the play a touchdown. The other did not. Both missed an offensive pass interference call. They were replacement referees. The regular ones were locked out.
Upon video review, the Seahawks were awarded the decisive major, much to the ire of the Packers.
The controversy was the tipping point to the NFL reaching a new agreement with its on-field officials just days later.
Boyle scores on the wrong net
All San Jose Sharks defenceman Dan Boyle was trying to do was send the puck behind his own net.
Instead, he sent it into his own net.
To make matters worse, Boyle’s shot from the corner, which got past unsuspecting teammate Evgeni Nabokov, was the only goal of the game – a playoff game at that.
The Colorado Avalanche took Game 3 of the 2010 Western Conference quarter-final series, giving them a 2-1 advantage.
Thankfully for Boyle, that was the last win the Avs would get. The Sharks won the matchup in six contests.
Castillo drops the ball
A lazy pop up behind second base should have led to the last out of a game between the New York Yankees and Mets on June 13, 2009.
Emphasis on “should have.”
Mets second baseman Luis Castillo dropped the ball, allowing Derek Jeter and Mark Teixeira to score the tying and winning runs with two outs.
The incredible turn of events gave the Yankees a 9-8 victory.
Campoli scores twice
It’s always nice to score a winning goal in overtime. So surely it must feel doubly good to score twice, right?
Well, that’s what New York Islanders defenceman Chris Campoli did on Nov. 3, 2008.
His first shot went by Columbus goaltender Fredrik Norrena, but went undetected by referees as it through the netting. However, by the time he circled around, Campoli received a pass and wristed the puck by the goalie and into the net.
The missed convert
The New Orleans Saints needed a miracle.
At 7-7, they needed to beat Jacksonville on Dec. 21, 2003 to keep their chances of reaching the NFL post-season alive.
Things weren’t looking so good when, down by seven points, they were on their own 25-yard line with seven seconds left.
Miraculously, they weaved, ran and lateraled they way to the Jacksonville end zone for six points.
The hard part was over. Now they just had to finish the job in overtime.
Whoa. Hold on.
Somehow kicker John Carney pushed the extra point well right, effectively ending the Saints’ season.
Cust falls down
Jack Cust enjoyed a journeyman career as a Major League Baseball designated hitter and outfielder for almost a decade.
He is mostly remembered for one gaffe on Aug. 16, 2003.
The then-Baltimore Oriole tried to score from first base on a double in the 12th inning of a game against the New York Yankees, but fell rounding third.
Caught in a rundown, Cust eventually had an open lane home when the Yankees failed to cover the plate. A few steps away from scoring the tying run, Cust fell again. He was tagged out to end the game.
