…And just like that, your browser collapsed. Here’s your roundup of GIFs from around Major League Baseball (and Taiwan). Ian Kinsler leads off this slide heavy edition with a bit of misjudged attempt at diving headfirst into third base. We can only applaud.
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There are bat flips and then there are Bat Flips. This is both. This is everything. This is all that a bat flip video needs to be. It is story. A saga of human achievement. The heights of euphoria and the depths of despair.
It is also encoded to prevent embedding. So we shall embark together on a journey. A journey to the very core of our own humanity. We will learn of both the agency of a man as well as his place in his realm.
Read on…
To his eternal credit, Jeremy Guthrie is having a very unusual season. Unusual for Jeremy Guthrie in that he’s pitched very well and Jeremy Guthrie is the human embodiment of serviceable. He has a very low ERA and a sparkling 5-1 won/loss record. Before last night, it was a 5-0 record.
Last night, Jeremy Guthrie posted one of the weirdest pitching lines you’ll ever see. It was the anti-FIP start for the ages. And that was tip of Guthrie’s weirdness iceberg.
Let’s set aside the argument over whether or not this was the correct call and just admire Mike Trout‘s nearly 10-foot feet first slide. Ok, we all good? Trout probably should have been called out there.
Hit the jump for a look at the entire “stolen base”
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We lead with Anthony Gose’s incredible steal of home from Tuesday’s Buffalo Bisons game versus Norfolk. Slips, trips, gaffes, and laughs after the jump!
Chase Utley, in the teeniest of sample sizes, has typically handled Barry Zito fairly well in past meetings. The left-handed hitting Phillies second baseman is 7-for-20 vs. the Giants lefty with a .350/.350/.700 triple slash line since the two first became acquainted in 2005. Prior to yesterday afternoon, Utley had stuck out versus Zito just once before, in 2007.
Utley hasn’t fared as well versus left-handers over the last few seasons as he did earlier in his career, but he’s still matched up well versus Zito with three hits (including a triple and home run) in his last six plate appearances. Zito turned the tables on Utley on Wednesday afternoon, holding him hitless in three at-bats.
While it’s not overly remarkable that Zito sat down Utley on four pitches in the seventh inning yesterday, it warrants an examination based on the pitch selection and sheer goofiness of the hurler’s stuff.
The Atlanta Braves are currently navigating through a logjam at catcher. Evan Gattis swatted his way into an every day gig through the first month of the season, and his .540 slugging percentage has to play. Gattis is making his third straight start in left field today with Gerald Laird handling the catching duties and Brian McCann taking a rest.
The 26-year old demonstrated his throwing prowess in the second inning of today’s game versus the Reds.
Gattis played 74 games in the outfield through various stops in the minors, so we shouldn’t be all that surprised that he can toss a strike from shallow left. Nevertheless, El Oso Blanco added a short chapter to his own legend this afternoon by nailing Brandon Phillips at home to complete a double play.
