Ruben Rivera is somewhere smiling at the Minnesota Twins right now.
The Twins played on Saturday against the Chicago Cubs. In the ninth inning at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Ill., the Twins were down 6-2 but were threatening to make a comeback with runners on first and second base and nobody out.
It all went south though when Minnesota shortstop Brooks Lee smashed a ball into center field that fell right out of the reach of Chicago outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong. Both lead runner Josh Bell and trailing runner Victor Caratini were completely confused on what to do and got caught in no man’s land between bases as the throw came back into the infield.
Caratini appeared to be running too fast when the ball was dropped, forcing Bell to try to come to home plate to open a base. Bell was then tagged out trying to retreat back to third … and then the batter Lee (who was initially trying to take second base) was thrown out attempting to return to first.
Here is the absurd video.
The Twins looked like they might have a ninth-inning rally going, but then…TOOTBLANS. TOOTBLANS everywhere. pic.twitter.com/yKaQCPe328
— Casey Drottar (@CDrottar19) July 18, 2026
That was like a chain reaction of incompetence as every single Twins player appeared to have some degree of fault there. Caratini got that entire circus started by not waiting for the ball to be either caught or dropped, Bell failed to protect himself as the lead runner, and Lee was out there lollygagging during Bell’s rundown and let himself get thrown out as well.
The Twins went on to lose by that same score of 6-2 after Kody Clemens struck out in the very next at-bat. Baserunning blunders seem to be a trend for their team too as one Minnesota player actually got demoted for a similar such instance last season.
