Baseball is a game of many rules, both written and unwritten. It’s what makes baseball, well, baseball. There’s no clock. The ballparks have weird quirks. No one looks quite right in a baseball jersey. This is what makes the game great.
But the lesser-known stigmas of baseball do present problems. Do you huck a home run ball back onto the field when it’s hit by an opposing team? Do you bring your glove to a baseball game this important, clearly preoccupied with catching a souvineer over watching one of the greatest World Series in recent memory?
Well consider this guy, who indeed brought a baseball mitt to Game 6 of the World Series on Tuesday night in Los Angeles and borked it all up.
Chivalry is most definitely dead pic.twitter.com/4nADIkQMsa
— Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) November 1, 2017
First of all, he’s a grown man wearing a baseball glove at Game 6 of the World Series. He’s expecting action. This series has been predictably bonkers, if you will allow the phrase to play here. Sure, the games are ordinary in the early innings. A run is scored, then we hit the later innings and all hell breaks loose.
On Tuesday night, hell had broken loose. The Dodgers finally got to Justin Verlander in the sixth with a Chris Taylor double and a Corey Seager sacrifice fly to make it 2-1 Dodgers. But the craziness was yet to come, and it was coming for him. Joc Pederson hit an opposite field home run right to him, right to that mitt he’s been sweatin’ through all dang game.
And this goober in the No. 10 Dodgers jersey — let’s say it’s a Hideo Nomo jersey and he’s been waiting a long time for this — just biffs the hell out of this catch. The ball is right there. And not only does he not catch it, he lets a poor woman behind him get crushed in the gut by a Pederson cannon shot because his Dick’s Sporting Goods leather is little more than a bundle of wet paper mache.
To quote Kevin Durant, this guy should be fired and throw in jail. Ok, that’s a stretch, but at the very least, he should be ejected. Go out there and make a play, buddy. Be an athlete. If you’re gonna bring a glove to Game 6 of the World Series, you better protect the folks behind you who came to watch this series without the baseball accessories keeping them from scarfing Dodger Dogs all night.
Vin Scully was there on Tuesday, dude. You made Vin Scully sad. Think about that while you await your trial in baseball court. Good luck finding someone to defend you after they get a load of that replay.
