Ghost runner Jake Cronenworth wishes he were an actual ghost as he takes a very real ball to the back on a pickoff attempt


Ghost runner Jake Cronenworth wishes he were an actual ghost as he takes a very real ball to the back on a pickoff attempt

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  1. Damn Doval didn’t even look like he cared enough to ask Cronenworth if he’s alright, what a douche.

  2. Potential new strategy, bean the guy as hard as possible and hope he passes out off of the bag.

    No I am not advocating for this, but imagine if he wasn’t of sound mind to keep his foot on the bag there from the pain.

  3. Obviously I feel for my boy Jake but there’s something so comical about the way he gets to the bag and then just slumps over and dies

  4. I don’t know why I’m laughing so hard at this. The runner gets hit and just melts.

    The only way to make this better is the pitcher running out and yelling: “ARE YOU FUCKING SORRY!?!”

  5. I get that it’s a joke but he’s an automatic runner, not a ghost runner. Ghost runners are when you don’t have enough people for a game so if someone gets a hit there’s an imaginary runner on first. They don’t steal, and only go as far as the batter-runner on a hit.

  6. I read “to the sack” and was so confused. Like Jake’s carrying it over his shoulder or what?

  7. Ow.

    What a dick for not at least taking a couple steps and asking “You good?”

    Doval sucks.

    Edit: Just checked the box score. Karma had Jake’s back.

  8. It looks like it hit him on the spine, and that needs almost 0 speed to hurt. I got plunked by a 50 mph batting practice ball in high school once. It came gumballing in, so I just took it rather than resetting my feet, and omfg it dropped me and hurt for hours after. I led the state in hbp that year (something like 20 hbp in 24 games; I was a major trash talker), and that one hurt the worst BY FAR, although I had one hit my helmet that did more actual damage.

  9. If you hit someone safe on a pickoff attempt it should be the same as hit by pitch and they get the next base.

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