To add to the explanation on the previous post, both teams screwed it up. The ump at second clearly said Correa was off the base and the runner was safe.
Cleveland’s coach needed to let him know to stay on the base. When he didn’t and was jogging slowly to third, the coach next needed to direct him straight to third in an attempt to “steal” the base.
Similarly, the Twins screwed up in not catching that he was jogging to third. Had they seen him jogging, they should have easily been able to get him in a run down.
As I said, I didn’t see anyone call timeout, and the umps would have had no reason to call it without someone asking. When the umps got together, they could have easily ended the conversation quickly by saying, “Such-and-such asked for time and we gave it.” That that didn’t happen makes me think that no one asked for time.
I think the correct call SHOULD have been to call him out for giving himself up, but that would have been a hard sell to Francona. So the “safe” solution was to send him back to second and blame it on confusion.
That’s my perspective from Section 103, where I have a pretty good view.