Orioles escape White Sox on game-ending interference call - ESPN

The Chicago White Sox are already the worst team in the league, so they didn't need this… Thursday night's rally against the Baltimore Orioles cut short by a controversial and game-ending runner interference call.

The play resulted in a double play for the final outs in Baltimore's 8-6 victory.

With two on and one out in the bottom of the ninth, Andrew Benintendi popped up. Shortstop Gunnar Henderson caught the ball — umpires had called the infield fly rule anyway — for the second out, then ruled that Andrew Vaughn interfered with Henderson on the play.

«It was a big surprise,» said Vaughn, who was the runner at second and ruled out. «I don't feel like he was deterred from making a play. It was a high pop-up. We were all reading it. As a runner, I've got to read it and make sure I can get back to the bag.»

White Sox manager Pedro Grifol argued vehemently with umpires at the conclusion of the stunning final sequence.

Brutal ending to this Orioles-White Sox game.