Rangers’ Mitch Garver Tricked Blue Jays Pitcher into Costly Balk, and MLB Fans Loved It

Baseball is a beautiful sport in which on any given day you might see something happen in a game that you’ve never seen happen before. 

That occurred in Monday night’s Rangers-Blue Jays game when Texas catcher Mitch Garver found a brilliant way to trick Toronto pitcher Chris Bassitt into being called for a balk. That call allowed Garver to walk home for the game’s first run.

Garver was at third base and, with nobody covering the bag, he made his way really far down the baseline, which got Bassitt’s attention. The pitcher then ran at Garver and was called for a balk thanks to MLB’s new disengagement rule that allows pitchers to only have two pickoff attempts or step-offs during a plate appearance.

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