The ball skipped away from Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and went to the wall, but Robert wasn’t 100% positive he touched first when he rounded the bag, so he returned to the base for a long single.
“When I hit the ball, I kept looking at the ball instead of the base,” Robert said after the game through an interpreter. “And even though I tagged the base, I wasn’t sure. Because it was the first inning, I didn’t want to have that play get reviewed and then something could happen. I just wanted to make sure that I tagged the base and just moved on.