The Philadelphia Phillies Go Full Little League, Lose Game On 3-Run Inside The Park Homerun While Running Around Like A Bunch of Dipshits
It's always great going to the ballpark to see the pros do unimaginable things with a baseball. Whether it's pitchers turning their arms into rocket launchers and slinging the ball 100mph. Or mutants at the plate who can take a wooden stick and mash the ball 450+ feet through the air. You go to the ballpark to be amazed at the level which these guys can all play the game.
And then you go to watch the Philadelphia Phillies play baseball. And for a brief moment, you're stuck wondering how any of these peckerheads made it past little league.
3-1 game heading into the bottom of the 9th. Most teams would feel pretty comfortable just needing to get 3 more outs to get out of there with a win. But a 2-run lead is nowhere even close to comfortable enough for the Phillies' bullpen. Especially when it is Jordan Romano coming out with the ball in his hand.
2 outs, runners on the corners, winning run is at the plate. Nobody would have batted an eye if Jordan Romano gave up your standard walk-off home run in this spot. Honestly, it would just be expected at this point. But the Phillies love to invent new, whacky ways to lose baseball games. So it wasn't enough to just lose on a walk-off home run. They had to lose on one that didn't even make it out of the park.
Credit to Brandon Marsh on playing that ball like a man who has a ball of Play-Doh inside his skull where his brain should be. If you're going to play centerfield, you at least need to have a slight grasp of geometry. You need to understand angles and how they work. Brandon Marsh is just a puppy who sees a ball get hit and wants to run directly at it.
He could have at least gotten bailed out a little bit if Max Kepler decided to, you know, use his body at all and move even an inch to go after the ball after Marsh missed it. The same Max Kepler who threw a hissy fit that he's not an every day player. He just stands there in left field killing grass. I guess when you're so used to being on the bench, you forget how to use your body.
Sometimes you watch the pros play baseball and wonder if they're even human. And then other times, you watch the Philadelphia Phillies and realize you could go out there and do the exact same thing.