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BALK-OFF! Yes, the Dodgers walked off on a balk on Thursday night

The Dodgers had a balk-off win on Thursday

Walk-off singles, walk-off home runs, walk-off grand slams -- these are all beautiful things. But do you know what might be even more beautiful? Walk-off balks. Or as people who enjoy making puns call them (puns are fun, tons of phun): balk-offs.

And on Thursday night, with a runner on third and two outs, Rangers reliever Keone Kela committed the very first balk-off of the season:

Enrique Hernandez, quite joyfully, scored the winning run. MLB.com's Ken Gurnick talked to him after the game:

"The pitcher was looking at me every time he was coming set so [third-base coach] Lorenzo [Bundy] told me to fake him," Hernandez said. "I was waiting for him to come set and look at me so I was just walking, acting like I was looking at the third baseman. I started walking, then I started speed walking and I pretended like I was going to run. He flinched and we got lucky."

It's the second year in a row we've been graced with a balk-off and before that, the last such occurence came in a 2011 Royals-White Sox game. The Dodgers also accomplished the feat back in 2010 when Casey Blake walkie-balked on home off reliever Esmerling Vasquez.

When will the balk-off strike again? Whenever you hope and dream hard enough, my friends.

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