Common sense prevailed. It just so happens common sense technically flies in the face of the new sliding rule to break up a double play.
It also was another example of Chase Utley getting the better of the Mets when teammate Corey Seager slid past second base and made contact with Neil Walker, allowing Utley to score a run on the play. But Seager wasn’t ruled to have interfered, despite the unofficially named Utley Rule that was instituted after he broke Ruben Tejada’s right leg with his violent body block of a takeout slide in last October’s NLDS.