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Could be possible if the OF was LGonz or Pierre...heck even Damon.

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I saw it once years ago, JAYS vs REDSOX, I think Junior FELIX was the runner on 2nd?

I think what is more amazing is Sammy Sosa taking a walk

When rolling for the error, a result of 5 means you have to refer to the rare play chart. Most of the time it's some useless detail where the batter is out anyway and nothing changes, but occasionally there's a result that changes the play. In this case I'm sure it was soemthing like the outfielder throwing wildly to 3rd or some rare circumstance where the runner was awarded home.

You don't need an error on the play for there to be a rare play. I'll start from the beginning...

On every x play, there's a 20 sider thrown to determine if there's a hit and three 6 siders thrown to determine if there's an error. A result of 5 on those six siders always refers you to another chart, the rare play chart, and more dice are thrown to determine what it is. On that chart is a bunch of results like "batter misses bag while rounding first and is called out on appeal", and things like that. I can't remember many of them, but what I certainly remember is that it would very rarely affect anything, i.e. it usually involved the batter being out when he would have been out anyway. But occasionally there would be a play that would matter, and in your case it would have read something like "outfielder catches ball and tries to throw out advancing runner. Ball is thrown into opponents' dugout. All runners advance one base." So it wouldn't matter who's running or what the outfielder's arm was.

Every so often somebody posts an "impossible" result on the boards wondering what's up. This is the explanation.

GU is correct - for an F1 (on an FBx from the pitcher's card) and a 5 roll, the result is:

"The outfielder races back to the wall and makes a diving catch, but ends up colliding with the wall! He holds onto the ball but is dazed. All baserunners tag up and advance 2 bases before the outfielder recovers enough to throw the ball back to the infield."

So you would had to roll a FBx on the pitcher's card, a 7 or 8 on the virtual 20 sided die (assuming it was a 3 rated OF) and a 5 combined with the 3 virtual 6 sided die. In other words, very unlikely.

Arm has nothing to do with it.

Let me just say that play and detailed explanation is awesome! I wish the recap would include those descriptions.