When things are going well at the plate, they have a tendency to keep going well.
That’s certainly the case for Ernie Clement right now with the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series.
Clement had two singles in Game 1, which gave him 20 hits through the first 12 games of the postseason.
In his first at bat of Game 2, he tried to keep the good vibes going. He was first-pitch swinging against Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Except, Clement got jammed. He hit a popup in front of the pitcher’s mound.
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That’s when trouble ensued.
Yamamoto stayed out of the way and let his infielders deal with it.
Freddie Freeman raced in from first, but he overran the ball, and it bounced onto the turf behind him.
Clement hustled down to first, and the official scorer ruled it a single.
Freddie Freeman misjudged this one pic.twitter.com/WyFbtOg7o1
— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) October 26, 2025
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According to Statcast, the batted ball had an expected batting average of .000.
It’s the first time a .000 expected batting average contact has ever turned into a hit in the postseason, according to Just Baseball.
There’s an old phrase about this one: That’s a line drive in the book.
No one knows in the scorebook where the ball was hit. It just goes down as a single, yet another one for Clement.
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