MLB Authenticated - “Unwritten Rule” Game - Billy Hamilton TRIPLE - Out at Home

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MLB Authenticated - “Unwritten Rule” Game - Billy Hamilton TRIPLE - Out at Home. Shipped with USPS Priority Mail. On May 17, 2021, the Chicago White Sox visited the Minnesota Twins at Target Field. Dallas Keuchel started for the White Sox, while J.A. Happ went for the Twins. In the top of the fifth, Derek Law was on the mound. Andrew Vaughn singled to Kyle Garlick. Yasmani Grandal walked. Leury Garcia singled. Danny Mendick smashed a grand slam, putting the White Sox up 10-1. Billy Hamilton then walked to the plate. With the count full, LAW HELD THIS BALL IN HIS HAND!! He threw an 87.5 mph slider, and HAMILTON RIPPED THIS BALL INTO THE RF CORNER WHERE GARLICK GRABBED IT. HAMILTON FLEW AROUND THE BASES. From the replay, it looks like Jorge Polanco was the cut off. (If that’s right, that means Polanco touched this ball too!) He threw to Josh Donaldson, but the throw was wide. HAMILTON, SEEING THE ERRANT THROW, HEADED FOR HOME!! LAW, WHO BACKED UP DONALDSON, GRABBED THE BALL AND FIRED A ONE-HOPPER TO WILLIANS ASTUDILLO, WHO GRABBED IT AND TAGGED OUT HAMILTON!! This ball was then retired. Tim Anderson and Nick Madrigal both grounded out to end the half inning
The White Sox continued to pound the Twins and were up 15-4 heading into the ninth. The Twins brought in Astudillo to pitch. With two outs and a 3-0 count, Yermin Mercedes belted an Astudillo pitch over the CF wall. Tony LaRussa was not happy, believing that Mercedes broke an “unwritten rule of baseball” that a player should not swing on a 3-0 pitch being up 11 runs in the ninth.
This ball is MLB Authenticated for Hamilton’s triple to Garlick off Law and Hamilton getting thrown out at home!! (To be clear, this ball is not Mercedes’s home run ball. It is Hamilton’s triple. The triple occurred in the same game where Mercedes broke an “unwritten rule,” according to LaRussa.) Please note this ball does not come with a case. Thank you for purchasing!!