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Insane Ump Show Unfolds After ECU Is Bizarrely Denied Walk-Off Home Run, Head Coach Gets Ejected

East Carolina University Athletics

  • East Carolina should have beat Bryant on a walk-off home run on Saturday.
  • However, a wild, truly insane ump show unfolded and the Pirates went on to lose in the most bizarre way possible.
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No. 12 East Carolina baseball lost its opening weekend series to Bryant University on Saturday after falling 4-5 in extra innings. However, the Pirates should have won in epic, walk-off fashion.

What played out in the bottom of the ninth inning is absolutely insane.

ECU shockingly lost Friday’s Game 1 to Bryant and found itself down 0-1 in the series. Game 2 was trending in the other direction after the Pirates took a 3-1 lead into the eighth inning.

The Bulldogs were able to tie things up in the top of the eighth and the game went to the bottom of the ninth tied at 3. The home team, of course, got the last hacks.

Sophomore Justin Wilcoxen stepped into the box to lead off the last hacks and took a 1-0 offering over the right field wall. It was gone in a hurry and should have been the game-winner.

Wilcoxen’s teammates rushed out of the dugout and celebrated the presumed walk-off win at home plate and even broke out the traffic cone.

That is when things took an unexpected turn. Bryant’s first baseman called timeout as the pitch was being thrown and somehow, for some reason, the first base umpire granted the timeout as the pitch was on its way to home plate and then eventually on its way out of the park.

Naturally, ECU manager Cliff Godwin lost his mind about the decision and got tossed.

It was truly an ump show.

The timeout never should have been awarded and the Pirates should have won the game. Even after the replay, the timeout did not effect the outcome of the play and it should have been overruled.

And yet, for some reason, it was not. Wilcoxen had to return to the plate as if he had not just hit a walk-off winner.

Here is how he extremely bizarre scene played out:

Bryant ended up recording three-straight outs after the overturned home run and took the game to extra innings. The Bulldogs went on to pull the upset and won the game 5-4 and took the series.

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