Seattle Mariners Win Over Houston Astros Featured One of Weirdest Plays Ever

The Seattle Mariners beat the Houston Astros 7-6 on Saturday night thanks, in part, to one of the more bizarre sequences we can remember.

Trailing 6-5 in the bottom the 10th inning, the M's were faced with the difficult task of trying to tie or win the game with ace closer Josh Hader on the mound for his second inning of work.

Cal Raleigh was the gifted runner at second base and Randy Arozarena led off the inning with a walk. Jorge Polanco then bunted the runners to second and third with one out. Dylan Moore, who has struggled mightily for the last two months (.033 average in June, .100 average in July entering play) quickly got down 0-2.

With a 1-2 count, Hader threw a fastball inside. Moore reacted as if the ball hit him, jumping around in agony. However, Raleigh ran in from third and the umpires ruled that Moore wasn't hit and that the ball actually hit the knob of his bat and was in play. Hader then threw Moore out at first, but the tying run had scored. The Astros challenged the play, trying to get it reversed to a hit-by-pitch, which would have loaded the bases but negated the run. However, the original ruling stood.

You can see it unfold below: