PIT Post-Gazette: Errors produce three unearned runs

[Jason] Davis walked leadoff batter Carlos Ruiz on a 3-2 count after being ahead 0-2. Phillies starter Jamie Moyer then put a bunt down close to the first-base line… Davis’ throw was wide of first base.

As Moyer, lumbering as a 45-year-old baseball player will, made the turn toward second, he collided with first-base umpire Randy Marsh, who tumbled to the ground.

“Randy was right in front of me and I was like, ‘Oh, hi,”’ Moyer said. “I tried to grab him, but I think I ended up pushing him. As I continued to run, I saw him fall down and I said, ‘Oh, my gosh.”’

“I told (Marsh) that was a moving pick,” Mientkiewicz said. “I said, ‘Your feet were moving. It should have been a block.”’

Right fielder Jason Michaels, in turn, whizzed a throw past second base, which permitted Ruiz to score and Moyer to wheeze into third.

“There was no oxygen on first or second,” Moyer said. “They had the oxygen tank at third. I felt like I was in Little League.”