Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol grabbed an A’s security guard during a bizarre challenge moment

You don’t see this every day.

In Monday’s St. Louis Cardinals win over the Oakland A’s, Cards manager Oliver Marmol was thinking about challenging a play in which Brendan Donovan may have been safe after being apparently tagged at second. But an Athletics security guard wandered over in front of Marmol, who was trying to figure out if he wanted to challenge.

Marmol missed the deadline to challenge it, so the security guard may have accidentally helped the team that employs him, even though the Cardinals ended up winning the game.

What a weird series of events. Here you go:

Unusual exchange between Oli Marmol and this security guard pic.twitter.com/ae41q0QBjA

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Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol took too long to challenge a call because the security guard in Oakland got in his waypic.twitter.com/FDQku3KGVn

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