Jorge Polanco hits a soft grounder right to Jake Burger but reaches 1st safely after hitting a spin move to avoid the tag
April 13, 2025
Jorge Polanco hits a soft grounder right to Jake Burger but reaches 1st safely after hitting a spin move to avoid the tag
48 comments
why are the Pirates wearing red and blue jerseys that say Texas?
Ha, love it.
All those years as a running back in the NFL finally paying off for Jorge Polanco
“WHOOP” – Chris Berman, probably
I thought moving out of the base paths is an automatic out?
I’ve actually never said a critical thing about Polanco in my life.
Gonna aggravate that hip issue lol
Ump had a stroke near the end.
They don’t call him Jor-hey-where’d-you-go Polanco for nothin
Matrix slow-mo shot was great
Love a good 360 no scope.
This is the play that made me sigh heavily
Jorge Polanco is your AL MVP
I need the closeup to see for sure and forgot a lesson learned umpiring. Take it all in. Even the way the first baseman reacts. He clearly reacts that he did not get the tag on.
Seems like this should be a clear 3-foot running out of the basepath rule, CloseCallSports had one of these a couple weeks ago. The runner’s lane is 3 feet wide, and you can see when the tag starts to be applied Polanco is essentially on the foul line and when he dodges he is well past the other line marking the runner’s lane, so he went more than 3 feet out of the path.
It does go against the rule of cool though so I understand why they didn’t call it.
He hit the b button. I’ll have to try that in mlb the show
I feel like polanco has been playing baseball for 30 years.
just step on 1st ole Will Craig lookin ass
The vigorous chewing of the gum is how you know he is embarrassed as fuck.
When you’re hot, you’re hot
Burger is a bum
Oh, he broke his ankles!
Every time I see something like this I just think “WHY NOT RUN TO THE BAG INSTEAD”
Didn’t realize evasion magic was one of Polo’s mystery tools
Very clearly went out of the base path. Out.
So what was the call on the field?
3 feet from the Base-path is really more of a guideline than an actual rule
I wouldn’t pull this move often, lest you want defenders doing more aggressive tags
If I’m an MLB first baseman, I’m going to be applying some very physical tags from here on out.
I like how he looks back down at the basepath after like “fuckin basepath causing me to miss the tag, you good-for-nothin’ bunch of chalk!”
r/praisethecameraman that first replay shot was cool as hell
Didn’t he go outside the bsse line?
That’s a Javy Baez special
Brother is channeling Anna Pavlova
Literally the exact scenario that tore my ACL my junior year in high school. Avoided the tag, dove into first. Got wrung up and was arguing the call while holding my knee
Slippery son of a bitch
Ump sounds like Mark Messier at the end
So apparently I just have no idea how the “leaving the basepath” rule works.
That’s got to be embarrassing for a professional player.
Fucking Laz can’t even say “The call stands”
Three foot rule.
Is this not out of base line?
I’ll try spinning, that’s a good trick
Damn the ump signaled safe before he even touched the bag
Baselines are like the salary cap, they don’t really exist unless you want them to
Is the ump okay
The only problem I have with this…there’s typical not as much avoidance in this type of play, as to not escalate hard tagging. Next time, this first baseman is not going to think twice about making sure the tag makes obvious contact…and I don’t want to see the runner whine about it.
48 comments
why are the Pirates wearing red and blue jerseys that say Texas?
Ha, love it.
All those years as a running back in the NFL finally paying off for Jorge Polanco
“WHOOP”
– Chris Berman, probably
I thought moving out of the base paths is an automatic out?
I’ve actually never said a critical thing about Polanco in my life.
Gonna aggravate that hip issue lol
Ump had a stroke near the end.
They don’t call him Jor-hey-where’d-you-go Polanco for nothin
Matrix slow-mo shot was great
Love a good 360 no scope.
This is the play that made me sigh heavily
Jorge Polanco is your AL MVP
I need the closeup to see for sure and forgot a lesson learned umpiring. Take it all in. Even the way the first baseman reacts. He clearly reacts that he did not get the tag on.
Seems like this should be a clear 3-foot running out of the basepath rule, CloseCallSports had one of these a couple weeks ago. The runner’s lane is 3 feet wide, and you can see when the tag starts to be applied Polanco is essentially on the foul line and when he dodges he is well past the other line marking the runner’s lane, so he went more than 3 feet out of the path.
It does go against the rule of cool though so I understand why they didn’t call it.
He hit the b button. I’ll have to try that in mlb the show
I feel like polanco has been playing baseball for 30 years.
just step on 1st ole Will Craig lookin ass
The vigorous chewing of the gum is how you know he is embarrassed as fuck.
When you’re hot, you’re hot
Burger is a bum
Oh, he broke his ankles!
Every time I see something like this I just think “WHY NOT RUN TO THE BAG INSTEAD”
Didn’t realize evasion magic was one of Polo’s mystery tools
Very clearly went out of the base path. Out.
So what was the call on the field?
3 feet from the Base-path is really more of a guideline than an actual rule
I wouldn’t pull this move often, lest you want defenders doing more aggressive tags
If I’m an MLB first baseman, I’m going to be applying some very physical tags from here on out.
I like how he looks back down at the basepath after like “fuckin basepath causing me to miss the tag, you good-for-nothin’ bunch of chalk!”
[As seen in this Canadian Heritage Moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1VUhdpqUcY)
r/praisethecameraman that first replay shot was cool as hell
Didn’t he go outside the bsse line?
That’s a Javy Baez special
Brother is channeling Anna Pavlova
Literally the exact scenario that tore my ACL my junior year in high school. Avoided the tag, dove into first. Got wrung up and was arguing the call while holding my knee
Slippery son of a bitch
Ump sounds like Mark Messier at the end
So apparently I just have no idea how the “leaving the basepath” rule works.
That’s got to be embarrassing for a professional player.
Fucking Laz can’t even say “The call stands”
Three foot rule.
Is this not out of base line?
I’ll try spinning, that’s a good trick
Damn the ump signaled safe before he even touched the bag
Baselines are like the salary cap, they don’t really exist unless you want them to
Is the ump okay
The only problem I have with this…there’s typical not as much avoidance in this type of play, as to not escalate hard tagging. Next time, this first baseman is not going to think twice about making sure the tag makes obvious contact…and I don’t want to see the runner whine about it.