Tag: Eric Haase

Tigers’ Eric Haase legs out three-run inside-the-park home run off White Sox misplay

Eric Haase had the wheels on this play.

You won’t find a more gift wrapped inside-the-park home run than the one Eric Haase just hit out to center field for the Detroit Tigers.

In the bottom of the fourth between the Tigers and the Chicago White Sox, Haase stood up to bat with men on first and second with one out looking for a way to get Detroit out of a 2-0 hole early. On the second pitch of the at bat, Haase lined a ball out to center field that jumped past the diving Billy Hamilton and went all the way to the wall.

Both base runners for the Tigers scored with ease, and even Haase himself crossed the plate standing for a stunning bases-clearing inside-the-park home run.

Talk about incredible speed from Haase — who is a speedy player to begin with — to leg out the inside-the-park home run to put the Tigers on top 3-2 just like that.

On the other hand, what a misplay from Hamilton, who should have just fielded the ball off a hop instead of trying for the high-risk, high-reward desperation dive. Even a regular slide could have very likely stopped the ball from rolling all the way to the warning track, but instead Haase took full advantage of the whiff for the rare inside-the-park homer.

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