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It’s been an awful season for the Boston Red Sox<\/a>. Beyond awful, really.<\/p>\n

They’re at the bottom of the American League<\/a> in just about every metric. They can’t win at home. They have no offense, and no star power.<\/p>\n

Fans are furious. The manager has already been fired. Their ace has been on the IL for a month now. Their starting shortstop is out until August, and even when he was playing, he was among the worst players in the league.<\/p>\n

Everywhere you look, it’s just been putrid. The 2026 Red Sox \u2014 the organization with the most World Series<\/a> titles this century \u2014 are truly terrible.<\/p>\n

RED SOX NOW DEALING WITH LOCKER ROOM ISSUES AFTER PUBLICLY BLAMING EACH OTHER AS BOSTON SINKS INTO LAST PLACE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

So, when the team provides us with brief moments of levity, we have to take it. They haven’t come often this season, as I just documented. We haven’t gotten a ton of those, “Wow,” moments from this group.<\/p>\n

We got one during Wednesday night’s rare home win against the Baltimore Orioles<\/a>, thanks to third base coach Chad Epperson going somewhere no man has ever gone before:<\/p>\n

Amazing. I’m gonna go ahead and echo what the announcers all said here and say that I have never, in my life, seen a third base coach do that. <\/em>Not once.<\/p>\n

Not in Little League. Not in travel ball. Not in high school<\/a>. Not on the worst D-III college baseball team in the country. Never.<\/p>\n

Obviously, the question becomes … was it legal? It’s a good question. A fair question. It came with a somewhat surprising answer, at least for me.<\/p>\n

Yes, it was … sort of. Here’s Rule 5.03(c) from Major League Baseball:<\/p>\n

Base coaches must remain within the coach’s box, <\/em>except that a coach who has a play at his base may leave the coach’s box to signal the player to slide, advance, or return to a base<\/em><\/strong>, provided the coach does not interfere with the play.<\/em><\/p>\n

The rule goes on to say that a manager can complain if they feel a coach violated the rule, and the umpire can issue a warning. But … it appears what Epperson did was legal, as long as he didn’t<\/em> interfere with the play.<\/p>\n

An MLB<\/a> official later told the Boston Herald’s Mac Cerullo that there is no automatic penalty for a coach that moves into fair territory during a play, but he could be called for interference if he … interferes … with the play.<\/p>\n

So, again, this seems like a fair move by Chad Epperson. A weird one, for sure, but a fair one.<\/p>\n

As for the Sox … they won, 8-1, to improve to a whopping 10-20 at Fenway Park this season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/outkick-sports\/red-sox-third-base-coach-something-never-seen-baseball-leaving-fans-confused <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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