diff --git a/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/dataflow/BinaryTokenizerOperatorNodePushable.java b/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/dataflow/BinaryTokenizerOperatorNodePushable.java
index 0ad10a7..6f28f61 100644
--- a/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/dataflow/BinaryTokenizerOperatorNodePushable.java
+++ b/hyracks-storage-am-lsm-invertedindex/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/storage/am/lsm/invertedindex/dataflow/BinaryTokenizerOperatorNodePushable.java
@@ -121,14 +121,13 @@
                 }
             }
         }
-
-        if (appender.getTupleCount() > 0) {
-            FrameUtils.flushFrame(writeBuffer, writer);
-        }
     }
 
     @Override
     public void close() throws HyracksDataException {
+        if (appender.getTupleCount() > 0) {
+            FrameUtils.flushFrame(writeBuffer, writer);
+        }
         writer.close();
     }