Watch: A's pitcher makes unbelievable gaffe
It has been a long season for the Oakland A's, and when you are one of the worst teams in baseball you will sometimes have some embarrassing moments happen.
That is what transpired with starting pitcher Luis Medina in the second inning of Saturday's game against the Washington Nationals.
The play started innocently enough with Media making a nice play to snag a comebacker from Washington's Ildemaro Vargas.
But instead of throwing the ball to first baseman Tyler Soderstrom for the first out of the inning, Medina slowly jogged over toward first base and held onto the ball, completely forgetting about the baserunner.
Vargas, being alert and seeing what was happening in front of him, started to sprint at the last minute and somehow beat the play out for an improbable infield single.
Vargas ended up coming around to score that inning for the game's first run.
The good news for Medina is that is the only run he allowed in his four innings of work and rebounded for a strong start that also saw him strike out four batters. But that is still a play that can simply not happen at the Major League level.
It is probably not the worst play we have ever seen with a force out at first base (the Pirates vs. Javier Baez play will always take the win there) but it is still pretty bad.
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