In the bottom of the 8th inning in tonight’s tilt between the Savannah Sand Gnats and Lexington Legends, Lexington catcher Jonathan Fixler bobbled a pitch and Savannah right fielder Cesar Puello broke to steal third base.

Fixler made a perfect throw to third that had Puello beat by 20 feet. Puello stood to be only the second runner caught stealing in the game after something like a million had already stolen bases successfully.

But Puello turned back from whence he came, so Lexington third baseman Jonathan Meyer threw toward second. Only Meyer’s throw glanced off Puello’s back and into center field. Puello again switched directions, this time reaching third safely. Meyer was charged with the Legends’ fourth error of the game.

Puello would later score on the Legends’ fifth error of the game.

The official scorer, sitting next to me in the press box, spent a good ten minutes on the phone trying to explain what happened. It’s all reflected now in the box score.

Oh, and Wilmer Flores crushed a home run in his first at-bat, on the second pitch he saw. More on that to certainly follow.