Yankees benefit from questionable call before scoring go-ahead run vs. Royals

Ensuing angles of the sequence seemed to show that Chisholm had indeed been glove-swiped on the ankle before his foot got into second base, which Barrett might not have been able to see in real time. Nevertheless, replay officials weren’t moved and Chisholm was confirmed to be safe at second after the review period.

That call ended up being absolutely enormous as Chisholm, who otherwise would have been the third out of the inning, went on to score on an Alex Verdugo single just two pitches later. That broke a 5-5 tie and put the Yankees up 6-5, which ended up being the final score of the game.

The fact that Chisholm was initially called safe on the field probably had everything to do with the replay decision as officials would have needed clear and convincing evidence to overturn the call. But that won’t make the Royals feel any better about the bad break in a winnable Game 1, especially right after we saw a similar controversy on Saturday in the NLDS as well.