Australian Baseball League All-Star Game ends on a walk-off squeeze bunt
ABL All-Star Game ends on walk-off squeeze bunt
The Australian Baseball League is full of delights. While we wait out our cold, MLB-less offseason here in the northern hemisphere, the ABL is there for us with things like players crashing through outfield walls and hiccup-filled national anthems. During Wednesday's All-Star Game at Melbourne Ballpark, it gave us one more moment of sweet, delicious baseball to savor until spring.
A pinch-hit, walk-off sacrifice bunt.

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Tied, 2-2, in the bottom of the ninth inning with a runner on third, Team Australia's Trent D'Antonio laid down the squeeze -- in his first ever All-Star appearance, no less -- to plate Andrew Campbell. D'Antonio was then, rightfully, mobbed by his teammates, as they defeated the World All-Stars by a run.
Once again, because I so cherish the sound of it: A pinch-hit, walk-off squeeze bunt won the ABL All-Star Game.
An ending like that is enough to turn us all into sacrifice-bunt aficionado Ned Yost:

Thank you, ABL, for giving us baseball moments like this when we need them most.