 Bottom of the fourth inning in ALDS Playoff Games. Zach Grankey comes in. He checks out the scoreboard. He's like, what's the situation? Oh, the situation. It's 7 to 6. Houston's losing. There's two runners on. There's no outs. A lot of runs have been scored already. If you downloaded the DraftKings Sportsbook app, if you use promo code Johnboy when you downloaded it, and you took the over in this game, you've already won. You're sitting pretty. You're having fun. Grankey comes in. And Yasmani Grandal is the batter he's going to face first, who got a nice break earlier in the game because Garcia had him two strikes, throws that pitch, probably strike three. Doesn't get the call. Later on in the bat, Garcia throws the same exact pitch. And now it's hit for a home run. If you can hit it for a home run, it's usually probably a strike. Also, if it's in the strike zone. So that's nice. So now Grandal's up again. He's got two on. Looking to extend the lead. That one fouled away. Need a new ball. Here we go. Pitch number two. Dribbler down the first baseline. They're going to come home to get the out. And the ball skids away. Where'd it go? What happened? Confusion. It hit. Grandal, who was running in the grass. It gets away from the catcher. The runner slides in. He's safe. He picks up the umpire. Just tabletops him. Tom Halyan just going for an absolute ride right here. Just having a good time. Having a great time together. They've bonded. They will laugh about that. Right away, Grankey out two of a Maldonado are pointing like, hey, he's in the baseline. Come on. And I was like, hey, he's out. That doesn't count illegal. Is that Grankey's upset? He's, that's not even close. And I'm just like, what? He's out of the baseline. OK, all right, all right, all right. I'll calm down. That guy's taking a selfie. This guy's holding up the magical cane in celebration. If you don't know about the magical cane, here you go. Got to put the spell on Alvarez. Another three, two. He's stuck it out. Magic. So the umpires get together like, you were right time. He's like, yeah, yeah, I'm OK. Tom, you all right? Like, yeah, yeah, I'm all right. I'm all right. OK, let me dust you off back here. Tom's like, all right, we got to figure this out. Everyone, if you could lower your heads a little bit so you can hear me better, please. Did he run out of the baseline? What happened? Here is how he ran. His, you know, he gets onto that grass pretty quick. One foot on the grass, two feet on the grass, three feet on the grass, four feet on the grass. I brought up a bunch of other similar hits this season and see how Grandal ran. See if he ever went on the grass. No grass. No grass, no grass there, no grass there, no grass there, no grass on that one and no grass on that one. And a lot of grass on this one. He ran on purpose in the way. The only problem is per the rules, that's totally legal. The baseline only matters for plays at first base, plays at home. It doesn't matter. And the runner gets to establish his own baseline. So as long as he starts off that way and stays true to it, he can run however he wants. He just can't intentionally get in the way of the ball. So they're gonna explain that to Dusty right now. And he's like, what? And Dusty's like, no, no, he ran out of the way. And he's like, no, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter where he runs. And Helen's gonna say, it's gotta be something intentional. Like if he throws his shoulder up or something like that. And Dusty's like, well, he got in the way. And he says, I don't think so, Dusty. He was just running down there. That's part of the play. It's part of the play. And Dusty's like, no, he got in the way on purpose. But it's just legal. So the play stands. And then Granky, another grounder down the baseline. That's safe. The next play is another grounder down the baseline. Well, that's kinda a little more in. That's through, more runs. Then another grounder to the first. He ran normal, that's an out. And then another grounder to the first. He ran normal, that's an out. Interesting play, because per the rules, it's legal. Which is a little bizarre. They're saying that's the lane he took. And if he didn't intentionally throw his arm up, the ball just hit him. I don't know to what lengths you can spin this. You know, can you run at the pitcher? No, but you're allowed to do this, like per the rules. I read a lot of umpire reviews and they said, per the rules, you're fine. So if base is loaded, and you hit one of the first basemen, get in his way in the future. Run towards him, I guess. Interesting, but this one's brought to you by DraftKings. Go to DraftKings, use the promo code JohnBoy when you download it, have some fun, bet responsively, enjoy it.