A minor league baseball team successfully cleared the bases on a bases loaded walk on Tuesday. It’s so hard to believe something like that could happen that you would have to see it to believed it. Thankfully, we do have some video.
The Albuquerque Isotopes, which are the Triple-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies, had the bases loaded in the bottom of the sixth inning against the El Paso Chihuahuas. There was a full count on the batter with two outs in a 2-2 game. The 3-2 pitch from Ryan Ritter was well off the plate to walk in the tie-breaking run. Ordinarily, that would mean just one run would score, but El Paso was so careless that Albuquerque was able to score a second run on the throw back to the pitcher. Then as the runner from first was trying to take an extra base, Ritter threw the ball away, allowing a third run to score and the batter to reach second.
ICYMI: The extended cut with high-home replay of the Isotopes scoring three runs on a bases-loaded walk last night! @RealSlimSchunky steals home with some heads up base running to start the chaos. 😎 pic.twitter.com/JL7SscfQCd
— Albuquerque Isotopes (@ABQTopes) April 16, 2025
What a brutal sequence of events for El Paso. Albuquerque won the game 7-2.
We expect that sort of thing to happen in a Little League game, but not in professional baseball. That was embarrassing.
