Ketchup mascot caught hotdogging and Jason Kipnis made him pay

Baseball stadiums have a lot of time to fill between innings, and one of the best ways to fill some of that time is with mascot races. The Milwaukee Brewers have their sausage race, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ race features running pierogis and the Washington Nationals have racing presidents. The Cleveland Indians have the Sugardale Hot Dog Race, and on Wednesday, it got a little out of hand.

The race itself features hot dogs dressed up as each of the three major hot dog codiments: ketchup, mustard and onions. In Wednesday’s race, ketchup (donning glasses like Wild Thing from the movie “Major League”) took a huge lead, and it looked like he was going to win with no problem.

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But ketchup couldn’t resist hotdogging a little bit, and he turned to point at cheering fans in the stands. He didn’t see Jason Kipnis standing in his path, getting ready to start the next inning. Ketchup turned around, but not in time to avoid crashing directly into Kipnis.

The collision didn’t affect Kipnis at all (other than making him laugh with delight), but ketchup tumbled to the ground. For a split second, it seemed like the end of the race for ketchup, but he popped right back up and kept running for the finish where he ultimately triumphed against mustard.

Does Jason Kipnis actually hate ketchup, or was this all an innocent player-mascot collision? At this time, the answer is unknown. (OK, it was probably an accident.) But Kipnis did post an Instagram video of the incident with the hashtag #comestrongordontcomeatall.

Hopefully all other mascots and life-size condiments heed that vital warning.

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