Rene Rivera channels Willie Mays Hayes with underwhelming slide into second

Nope. Rene Rivera this is not how the whole sliding-into-second-base thing works.

Rivera, trying to disrupt a double play attempt Monday night during the Tampa Bay Rays game with the Los Angeles Angels, wasn’t even close to making it to the base. You could fit an entire person in between where Rivera’s slide ended and where Erick Aybar was standing, right in front of second.

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For anybody schooled in the ways of great baseball movies, it’s impossible not to think of the famous scene in “Major League” where Willie Mays Hayes slides into second base headfirst and doesn’t even come close to the bag.

The main difference, we suppose, is that Hayes ended his slide with a middle finger to the guy who tagged him while Rivera laughed with Aybar about his own hilarious attempt at a slide into second.

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