Throw down! Yelich nabs Sanchez at home for last out

MIAMI — Marlins left fielder Christian Yelich made a perfect throw to catcher Jeff Mathis, nailing White Sox pinch-runner Carlos Sanchez at the plate to put an exclamation point on Miami’s 5-4 throw-off victory Sunday at Marlins Park.

The only brief question after Yelich’s strike convincingly beat Sanchez for the game’s final out is whether it would stand, with the umpiring crew reviewing the home-plate collision rule in regard to Mathis. That answer arrived positively for the Marlins in about 15 seconds.

“You kind of never know if you’ve done it the proper way, or you try to do it by the book and the way the new rule says. But you never know now,” Mathis said. “I was just happy it turned out and we got an out.”

“Where Sanchy was sliding in, you have them look at it,” White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. “You get a hit and you have to make them make a good play, and they did. It was a great …

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