It would appear that a bad call hurt the Nationals in their bid to advance to the NLCS:
The play in question came during a four-run fifth inning against Nationals ace Max Scherzer. The NL Cy Young Award candidate struck out Baez to end the inning, but the ball got past catcher Matt Wieters, allowing Baez to reach first base.
However on Baez’s swing-and-miss he hit Wieters. The MLB rulebook states that if a batter makes contact with a catcher on a pitch of any kind the ball is dead no matter what. So Baez should have been out on the spot. The inning would have been over and the Nationals would have limited the Cubs to two runs in the inning.
The Nationals really had a run of bad luck in their LDS losses. A bad call, a ball a few inches more from a fielder, even possibly a ball called a strike or a strike called a ball and they might have made one or two league championship series.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2gMQYsx
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