Phantom baseball appears on field and haunts the Indians into an out

Can baseballs die? And when they do, can they come back to haunt this earthly plane as a ghost? It's a question that scientists and scholars have surely spent hours researching. On Tuesday night, the Indians were wondering the same thing. 

In the bottom of the 7th inning, Yan Gomes hit an RBI double. But when the throw came back to the infield, all of a sudden there was a second baseball on the field. David Murphy, thinking the phantom baseball (or class-5 full roaming horsehide) was the live ball, found himself caught too far off third base for the out. 

But where did the baseball come from? Skeptics will say that some fan threw it or that it came from an errant toss in the bullpen. 

And sure, that's possible. But what if, what if this is a message from the other side? A message saying, I dunno, "Go Reds" or "My favorite Indian was Paul Sorrento!"