Giants' Heliot Ramos suffers mind-boggling baserunning mistake in loss to Pirates: 'Mental error'

San Francisco Giants outfielder Heliot Ramos committed a bizarre baserunning blunder in the association s - loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night Matt Chapman was at the plate with Ramos on second base and Wlily Adames on first base in the bottom of the first inning Pirates pitcher Bailey Falter got Chapman to pop up in front of the mound CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS COMThe home plate umpire called an infield fly rule which is used to prevent the defensive squad from intentionally dropping a pop-up in hopes of turning a double play Naturally Ramos and Adames would have stayed on base and the next batter would be up Instead Pirates third baseman Ke Bryan Hayes let the ball drop in front of him and it caught Ramos a bit off guard Ramos was caught trailing too much off of second and Hayes threw the ball to second baseman Nick Gonzalez to achieve the quick-thinking double play Ramos called it a mental error after the event according to NBC Sports Bay Area ORIOLES RELIEVER SERANTHONY DOMINGUEZ WALKS OVER TO JOIN BLUE JAYS AFTER BUSINESS REACHED DURING DOUBLEHEADER Trying to do too much overthinking I messed up That s the only thing I can say about it It s been happening a lot I m just trying to get better do better every day every time Trying to work on it even on my defense It hasn t been the best Ramos mentioned I don t want to mess it up I don t know what to do All I m doing is working every day trying to fix everything It was that kind of event for the Giants as they were only able to get two hits the entire challenge Falter allowed two hits and only one run The Pirates bullpen did its job to shut down the Giants offense and win the battle Pirates shortstop Liover Peguero and catcher Joey Bart contributed the RBI in the win Follow Fox News Digital s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter