4/17/15: Brett Lawrie slides hard into second, injuring Alcides Escobar’s left knee and emptying the benches on a play that is reviewed
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29 Comments
And how many batters have the Royals injured? Including the one's from the A's. Borderline dirty team trying hit batters in the head with 90mph fastballs. And if it was such a dirty slide, why would he sit there put his hand on his back and try to make sure he was okay? Yeah…….that was totally intentional. Not like that's a human running full fucking speed and not being able to slow down or anything. Jesus KC people are retarded. Sir Issac Newtons First Law, an object in motion stays in motion.
Dirty play all around even by today's standards: 1) Does not hit the ground until AT the base. 2) No "bona-fide" attempt at the base. Both arms AWAY from the base and the cleat is HIGH aiming right at Escobar's SHIN. And 3) unless the player is positioned behind the base, there's no reason to go over it THAT FAR.
Proof: Just freeze it at 0:43 and tell me how ANYTHING in that slide in that moment is legal.
Why clear the benches, not one player was fighting
Royals saying there is no way they would turn 2 and it was dirty. How is lawrie supposed to know where the other runner is. For all he knows the runner could still be in the batters box. Fuck the royals. Bunch of cry babies
Funny the royals never do anything wrong according to the announcers.
benches clear… as if those pussy baseball players were going to do anything
Borderline dirty? Ty Cobb would be proud of that slide.
I'll admit right off the bat that I'm a Royals fan, but the reason why I think it was a dirty play, or at least a dumb play by Lawrie, is that he slide to break up a double play that was never gonna happen in the first place, they were lucky just to get the out at 2nd, and that only happened because Lawrie over slid the base. The reason it looks dirty is because it appears his spikes are up and went into Escobar's leg/knee. It's obvious from the replay that Lawrie would of been safe just sliding to 2nd, and not thru 2nd into Escobar. Lawrie may not of had bad intentions, but I would argue that it was poor "situational running", if you will, since the ball bounced off the pitchers foot slowing it down a little, bounced a couple times before even being fielded by Moustakas. The ball was slowed enough that, at best, all the Royals were gonna get one out on the play, and if Lawrie simply stops at second, he's safe, no outs recorded, and the A's would of had runners on 1st and 2nd, with no outs in the inning, with the game tied.
As the announcers said, there was no chance of a DP
Good actress looks like care about infielder
I'm an A's fan and I thought that slide was BS.
In the runner's defense, he can't tell how probable the double play is, running down hard on contact.
No way they were gonna turn a double play. Dirty slide.
“There was no way they were turning a double play” runner isn’t even in frame when Escobar has caught it clean
“There was no way they were turning a double play” runner isn’t even in frame when Escobar has caught it clean
0:41 definitely trying to spike Escobar's leg that is on the side of the base. If you made a baseball movie and wanted a dirty "sweep the leg" moment from the "bad guy" team, it would look just like that.
I am an Oakland A's fan and proud of it; however, I am NOT a fan of players who intentionally injure opposing players and I don't care what uniform they are wearing. Not being blessed with the ability to read minds, I have no idea what Lawrie was thinking on this play but if he was deliberately trying to injure Escobar I say shame on him. I would really love to ask the Royals broadcasters if they would still be calling this a "borderline dirty slide" if a Royals runner had injured an Oakland infielder on the exact same play. I would be willing to bet that the answer would be no.
Brett is dope and an idiot!
Seek God
Thats a good baseball play by Lawrie. Escobar should learn to get out of the way.
Lawrie is garbage.
Legal at the time
I feel he did it on purpose
Sometimes mlb baseball looks stupid.
He obviously wasnt intentionally trying to injure him, but he was def trying to break up the double play. But yea that slide was too much
I would have thrown the ball straight to his face after a slide like that
Luke Hochevar later that same game threw a ball really close to that guys head to teach him a lesson about sliding into his players. Way to stand up for your players bro.
Billy Beane really had immediate remorse trading away Donaldson to get a cancer of Lawrie.
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