The Harrisburg Senators visited the Hartford Yard Goats for some exciting midweek Eastern League baseball action and the two teams combined to create one of the stranger plays of the season at any level.

Harrisburg was enjoying a 1-0 lead in the third inning when a Hartford batter lofted an easy fly ball out to center field. Delino Deshields Jr., who is trying to get back to the bigs after playing parts of seven seasons in the show, easily reeled it in for the second out.

Then, oblivious to the Yard Goats runner tagging up from second, turned his attention toward whatever was going on behind the fence in left center.

His miscalculation allowed the heads-up runner to scamper home and probably resulted in some regret for Deshields.

Now, this type of thing happens from time to time. The

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