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White Sox player costs team a run by failing to touch home plate

Originally posted on Larry Brown Sports
By Darryn Albert | Last updated Jun 28, 2025 7:02 PM ET

The Chicago White Sox continue to do Chicago White Sox things.

White Sox outfielder Michael A. Taylor committed one of the biggest blunders of the season on Saturday against the San Francisco Giants. In the seventh inning with the White Sox leading 1-0 at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, Ill., Taylor was standing on second base after hitting a one-out double.

Chicago teammate Josh Rojas followed with a base hit to right field that brought Taylor home. The only problem? Taylor failed to actually touch the plate on his slide.

Seconds after the throw arrived, Giants catcher Andrew Knizner noticed that the home plate umpire had yet to signal that Taylor was safe. As a result, he put the tag on Taylor, and Taylor was called out.

Here is the video.

The Giants catch a HUGE break as Michael A. Taylor misses home plate on this slidepic.twitter.com/tT2QOEjS7m
— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) June 28, 2025

Take a look at another angle of Taylor’s miss.

Somehow, Michael A. Taylor missed home plate here. pic.twitter.com/Whk3IMkrr5
— The Comeback (@thecomeback) June 28, 2025

Taylor had to take a bit of an awkward angle to get around Knizner in the first place and met a bit of resistance from the dirt on his head-first slide into the plate. But he definitely still should have been able touch the plate there and never even made an attempt to circle back.

Miraculously though, Taylor’s blunder did not actually matter one bit in the end. Neither team scored another run from there, so the White Sox managed to walk away with the 1-0 victory over the Giants.

After losing a modern-era-record 121 games last season, Chicago is slightly more respectable this season at 27-56 overall. But they continue to embarrass themselves with comical gaffes, both in the field and now on the basepaths as well.

This article first appeared on Larry Brown Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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