The Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates live the dream on Tuesday: baseball without umpires.
Well, actually, baseball with no umpires would probably be more like a nightmare, but the two teams had to make due after their umpiring crew left the ball game when the Pirates, the home team, finished the top of the ninth leading 7-4.
In normal baseball rules, the game would be over and the Pirates would start shaking hands, but because this is spring training, the two teams wanted to play on to give their players as much time on the field as possible. The result was a half-inning of the teams calling their own balls, strikes and outs, sandlot style:
The Orioles and Pirates both wanted to play the bottom of the 9th inning despite the Pirates technically winning the game 7-4
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