Before I get to today's ESPN bombshell, I have something to take care of in Major League Baseball from yesterday:
Max Scherzer threw a no-hitter yesterday in a 6-0 win for the Washington Nationals over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
If not for one of the more Bush League moves in recent memory, Scherzer would've thrown a perfect game.
The 27th batter was Jose Tabata, and this was the 2-2 pitch, one strike from absolute baseball immortality:
I would almost bet this video will be taken down by MLB soon, but I figured it was the best one I've seen of the entire situation.
Tabata gets hit by the pitch very lightly on the elbow.
At 34 seconds of the clip, you see the replay. Tabata doesn't "lean into" the pitch, as the announcers state:
HE DROPS HIS FUCKING ELBOW INTO THE PATH OF THE BALL TO BREAK UP A PERFECT GAME.
I mean, are you motherfucking kidding me???
He makes no effort to swing the bat, he makes no effort to do anything other than to get hit by the pitch and take first base and lose a perfect game on an act that, if the Nationals players in the field had seen a replay, we'd have had a full-scale base-brawl.
Oh my God... Have we degenerated to THIS level of cheating, skullduggery, and subterfuge?
Seriously??
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