Paul Goldschmidt's bizarre zero-pitch at-bat led to Yankees' go-ahead run against Blue Jays

Entering Sunday's crippled against the Blue Jays, Paul Goldschmidt has yet to look successful a Yankees crippled successful the past week.

That was until the Yankees sent him to the sheet to pinch-hit for Ryan McMahon successful the apical of the 7th connected Sunday.

His clip successful the crippled was short-lived, though, but it was 1 of the events successful a series that led to a Yankees go-ahead tally precocious successful the game.

Before Goldschmidt could adjacent get his feet acceptable successful the batter's container for his pinch-hit at-bat, the determination was made by Toronto to intentionally locomotion him.

This successful itself isn't excessively abnormal, but it doesn't hap often. What happened adjacent was the bizarre part.

Goldschmidt trotted implicit to archetypal base, arsenic the Yankees present had players connected archetypal and 2nd basal with 1 out.

Before helium could get settled again, the Yankees decided to regenerate Goldschmidt with Jazz Chisholm to get a subordinate with amended velocity connected archetypal base.

Just similar that, successful little than 30 seconds, Goldschmidt went from walking to location sheet expecting to get an at-bat to ending up close backmost successful the dugout fractional a infinitesimal aboriginal aft helium faced zero pitches.

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A mates of at-bats later, Jose Caballero drove successful the tally astatine 2nd base, giving the Yankees the lead.

The Blue Jays managed to nonstop the crippled to other innings, but the Yankees inactive hung connected to triumph 4-3 successful 10 innings.

They caput to Baltimore time nighttime arsenic they commencement different bid against a part rival.