Gary Cohen was not happy with the Marlins’ baseball awareness in the third inning during Wednesday night’s 10-4 loss to the Mets.
The SNY broadcaster was fuming when the Marlins failed to realize that there were three outs after a forceout at second base in which Miami still attempted to turn two with a throw to first.
“The inning is over. Nobody on the field seems to know how many out there are. I mean, come on. 5-4 force ends the inning. You can get somebody killed that way,” Cohen said.
Francisco Alvarez was at the plate with two outs in the bottom of the third when the Mets catcher hit a grounder to third baseman Emmanuel Rivera, who sent a throw to second for the force to end the inning.
That should have been the end of it, but instead, second baseman Otto Lopez fired the ball to first wildly, which set Cohen off.
The ball went way over first baseman Jake Burger’s head, but it didn’t matter because the inning had officially concluded seconds earlier.
Alvarez seemed to be a bit confused as well, as he stood at first with his helmet on before Mets first base coach Antoan Richardson seemed to alert him that the frame was done with.
The Mets were leading 5-2 at the time of the odd moment before cruising to victory.
Alvarez, in his second game back from the injured list, went 1-for-4 with two RBIs.
Lopez, whose errant throw caused Cohen’s outburst, went 1-for-5 for the Marlins.