PFP, as Jim Price is fond or reminding the fans. The first thing pitchers do on the first day of spring training. Work on covering first, and fielding bunts. When pitchers don't field their position, bad things happen.
With two on and AJ Burnett up to bunt, Doug Fister, who had a shot at a double play, tried for the out at third. (That's what pitchers do when they know they need to pitch a shutout to win.) He threw the ball away, Delmon Young airmailed it back in, and both runners scored.
That Fister pitched a decent rest of the game (two earned runs in six innings, eight hits), and that the final score of 4-1 indicates the game minus the error was winnable, are no surprises. Such are the things that happen when not even the .300 hitters at the top of the order are getting on base.
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