Rockies’ Drew Stubbs breaks World Record for worst slide
Hide the Little Leaguers, we’re about to witness the worst slide we’ll see in baseball all season.
The unfortunate subject of today’s unfortunate posting is Colorado Rockies outfielder Drew Stubbs.
Coming in to play on Saturday night, Stubbs’ season was actually going quite miserably so far. In his first 17 at-bats, he was hitless with 11 strikeouts and little else to show for his season in terms of positive contributions to the ballclub. Little did he know things were about to get worse during Saturday’s 5-4, 11-inning loss to the San Francisco Giants.
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Despite his offensive struggles, Rockies manager Walt Weiss still called Stubbs’ number as part of a seventh-inning double switch. With the game on the line in the ninth inning, Weiss once again stuck with Stubbs, who delivered a game-tying fielder’s choice.
That’s actually a very good thing, but what followed immediately after was not. Representing the winning run, Stubbs took off for second base and had the bag stolen easily against Santiago Casilla and Andrew Susac, only he didn’t, because he somehow managed to botch the slide and roll over the bag.
First and foremost, thankfully Stubbs wasn’t injured on the awkward play.
Second, he’s a professional and we certainly respect him for that.
Third, well, there is no third.
How does that seriously happen? He can’t blame the playing surface. He can’t claim Brandon Crawford for blocking the bag, because he was reaching for the throw. He just flat botched a basic, routine slide in the ninth inning of a tie game.
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We’ll let the Twitterverse take it from here.
There are moments you want to forget. There are moments you can’t forget. This will be both for Drew Stubbs, and unfortunately we had to do our part to make sure it’s never forgotten.
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Mark Townsend is a writer for Big League Stew on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter! Follow @Townie813
