Puig’s game-winner atones for baserunning gaffe

SAN DIEGO — Dave Roberts used the word “crazy” to describe the Dodgers’ 6-5 win in 17 innings over the Padres on Sunday.

And that was before he revealed that had the game gone another inning, he considered using outfielder Yasiel Puig to pitch. Talk about crazy.

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The polarizing Puig already had the internet in a frenzy after a dumbfounding baserunning mistake prevented the Dodgers from winning the game in the ninth inning. Puig froze at second base on A.J. Ellis’ sacrifice bunt toward third with no outs. Ellis stopped running to first base on the play with his hands to his head when he saw Puig fail to advance.

“I was shocked,” Roberts said several times. “That’s kind of how this game works. Crazy play, a lot of things you don’t see ever really happen. Obviously, it’s a play he’d like to take back. For him to get another opportunity to break it open was huge for him, as well as us.”

Of course, to see Puig on the mound would have been the Cut4 of all Cut4s. As it was, his bases-loaded two-run single in the top of the 17th was the go-ahead hit in a four-run rally that started with Howie Kendrick’s third extra-base hit and made a winner out of Ross Stripling. It …

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