One of the more frustrating things that you can experience as a baseball fan is when someone on your favorite team draws a walk, and then the next guy comes up hacking at the first pitch and he grounds into a double play. In this case, the Orioles had Santander batting after TWO walks, and in the process of Rangers reliever Aroldis Chapman issuing the second of the walks to Rutschman, he also tossed out a wild pitch.
As a matter of basic philosophy, a person might have thought, “He’s wild, so I’m making him throw me a strike,” or “He’s gotta throw a strike, so I’m swinging.