This is how reporter C. Trent Rosecrans of the Cincinnati Enquirer initially described the Diamondbacks 4-3 victory against the Reds at Chase Field on Sunday afternoon:

"Except wait" is right. Owings had knocked in Paul Goldschmidt with the winning run with one out in the 10th, but in the excitement of the moment, a little mayhem ensued. Some of the Reds on defense started walking off the field because, well, the game appeared to be over. The D-backs celebrated on the field, as teams do, and in doing so they prevented two of their own runners -- the bases were loaded at the time of Owings' hit -- from advancing. Brandon Phillips noticed this and -- hoping to start an ex-post-facto double play -- started to retrieve the ball, which had been hit over the outfielders' heads to the fence in center. 

But, with no outfielders running to get the ball, Phillips asked a Chase Field security guard to throw him the ball, which he did. The security guard started a relay!

That can't be legal. It's like when the umpires in "Naked Gun" got the Mariners guy into a rundown. Life imitating art. Regardless, Phillips passed the ball Billy Hamilton, who apparently hadn't walked all of the way off the field, and he touched second base, before throwing it to Joey Votto at first base.

Now, replays showed that Owings had touched first after singling, and that Goldschmidt had touched the plate. Those actions nullified everything else that came after. A discussion lasting several minutes happened between umpires and Reds personnel, but most of it seemed to be the umps explaining how the game was over and the Reds had lost.

Watch Owings' hit and the aftermath:

Meanwhile, back on the internet, amateur MLB rules aficionados were trying to explain to Rosecrans how the umpires were getting it wrong, and nobody at the ballpark actually knew what they were talking about. Some fans were, like, "If only the Reds had stepped on third base, then second, they could have still been playing." No.

Here's a taste of C. Trent's Twitter:

It was some pretty funny Twitter. And just so we're not being unfair, the professional analysts at the MLB Network were hyperventilating over the play too. Notably Eric Byrnes:

Let's just not lose sight of the fact that the Reds tried to start a relay with a Chase Field security guard.