Even if we get out of the bottom, it was gonna be 50/50, at best. But your second sentence leads me to believe that we're on opposite sides of plays at the end of a game deciding them. When a guy's running in for the game winning TD as time expires and fumbles the ball away, or a ref blows a call that takes away a go ahead score at the very end, even though the team DID have ample opportunity to have put the game away beforehand, the fumble/bad call, DID change the outcome of the game. If that's not what you meant, my bad.
I also didn't think the play was an automatic out by any means, just that he took a horrible rout. And when I was talking about the time, obviously, it takes time to get a read on it, and balls hit directly at a player are the hardest to judge.
But literally DURING Hernandez's at bat, I was thinking that the bazillion seagulls flying around, in the hitter's eye, OR the fielder's, would be an unusual distraction for the road team, and a Giant's home field advantage.