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Cardinals’ Oscar Mercado Wiped Out on Hilariously Bad Strike, and MLB Fans Loved It

Oooooof!

Andy Nesbitt

Cardinals’ Oscar Mercado Wiped Out on Hilariously Bad Strike, and MLB Fans Loved It
Cardinals’ Oscar Mercado Wiped Out on Hilariously Bad Strike, and MLB Fans Loved It /
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While the World Baseball Classic has been all the rage the past few weeks, there still have been MLB spring training games going on, and we’ve been able to see some pretty cool things so far, including one of the most embarrassing swinging strikes of the year. 

It happened Sunday in a Cardinals-Mets game in Port St. Lucie, Fla., when Tylor Megill threw some high heat inside on Óscar Mercado. The Cardinals center fielder committed to swinging and just couldn’t stop himself.

How’d that go for him? Not well at all. You never want to end up on the ground after swinging and missing at a pitch, but that’s what happened here: 

Oooooof! 

MLB fans loved it: 

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Andy Nesbitt
ANDY NESBITT

Andy Nesbitt is the assistant managing editor of audience engagement at Sports Illustrated. He works closely with the Breaking and Trending News team to shape SI’s daily coverage across all sports. A 20-year veteran of the sports media business, he has worked for Fox Sports, For the Win, The Boston Globe and NBC Sports, having joined SI in February 2023. Nesbitt is a golf fanatic who desperately wants to see the Super Bowl played on a Saturday night.

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