Reds erase Rockies’ tying run on appeal

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CINCINNATI — Reds manager Bryan Price wasn’t watching Dustin Garneau run when Rockies pinch-hitter Ryan Raburn hit what appeared to be a game-tying, two-out RBI single that scored him against Raisel Iglesias in the seventh inning. But fortunately for the Reds, third baseman Eugenio Suarez was.

Following the hit, Price went to remove Iglesias and summoned reliever Blake Wood. Wood made his requisite warmup pitches and when play resumed, tossed an appeal throw to third base and Garneau was called out, erasing what would have been the tying run in the Reds’ eventual 6-5 walk-off win.

Suarez thought he saw Garneau not touch third base as he scored on Raburn’s hit.

“I just watched him when he turned, he missed the base,” Suarez said. “I talked to the umpire and asked him ‘Do you think he missed the base?’ I said, ‘I think so.’ Then I went to the mound and talked to Bryan Price.”

During the pitching change after being informed by Suarez, Price spoke with home-plate umpire Gary Cederstrom.

“I said, ‘Even though I brought in the new pitcher, I can make that appeal?'” Price said. “He goes ‘Yeah, until another play is made, then you can no longer make the appeal.'”

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