"The left fielder would not have made the catch": the ruling that ended the Yankees' October

The umpires took away Anthony Volpe's tying home run but still gave him a run, and ESPN spent the next day asking whether they got it right.

Channel: ESPN MLB Story of October 9, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 153,681 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (11,557).

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The crew chief needed only three sentences. "After review, we have spectator interference," he told the stadium. Then came the line that settled it: "In addition, the left fielder would not have made the catch." One run would count, and Anthony Volpe would go back to second base.

That ruling sits at the center of ESPN MLB's Short from Game 3 of the ALDS. Volpe drove a pitch from Griffin Jax deep to left field. The call on air was "It's a home run! Anthony Volpe has tied it!" Volpe rounded the bases and celebrated in the dugout. Then the slow-motion replays showed several fans reaching over the wall, above the outfielder's raised glove. The home run became a ground-rule double, and the Rays held on to finish a sweep.

The clip passed 150,000 views in its first day. It is a lot of traffic for one of this channel's Shorts, and the comments arrived even faster than the views. Many viewers reach back to 1996, when a fan's reach over the same kind of wall helped New York instead. Others bring up Steve Bartman, and a few ask why the front row is not simply moved back.

The argument carried through the rest of the channel's day. On Get Up, Buster Olney gave a whole segment to whether the umpires got it right, then turned to Aaron Judge's comments and to Aaron Boone's job. Stephen A. Smith's reaction on First Take drew the biggest crowd of all.

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The numbers

One overturned home run drew a crowd far larger than an ESPN MLB Short usually gets, and comments arrived even faster than the views.

the video's first day

usual first day here

11,557

this video

153,681

subscribers

563,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,704,158,088

views per day

727,941

typical day: 302,799

the video

views

160,048

likes

270

comments

475

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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690,000

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659,000

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637,000

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591,000

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563,000

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560,000

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