The Associated Press began last night's game story (which was posted by NBC Sports Boston) with this sentence:
Mookie Betts homered on the first pitch of the bottom of the 10th inning to lift the Boston Red Sox to a 4-3 win over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.How hard is it to report the correct information?
It's apparently much harder than I thought.
What actually happened was:
Mookie Betts homered on the second pitch of the bottom of the 10th inning to lift the Boston Red Sox to a 4-3 win over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.
Baseball Reference
MLB.com
And - although it is much less official - we have my scorecard:
It is almost 14 hours since the story was posted and it has not yet been corrected.
Apparently, facts shouldn't get in the way of a good lead when it comes to reporting on a walk-off win.
ReplyDeleteWhy so angry?
ReplyDeleteWhy so angry?
ReplyDeleteI like accuracy.