MLB Fans Ripped Javier Baez After He Made a Mistake That Even A Little Leaguer Wouldn’t Make

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MLB Fans Ripped Javier Baez After He Made a Mistake That Even A Little Leaguer Wouldn’t Make
MLB Fans Ripped Javier Baez After He Made a Mistake That Even A Little Leaguer Wouldn’t Make /
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Being a Major League Baseball player is hard. The pitchers are throwing ridiculous pitches, you have a pitch clock to now worry about, and everyone playing the game is just really, really good.

You know what shouldn’t be a hard part about about being a professional baseball player, though? Remembering how many outs there are in an inning. 

That, however, appeared to be too difficult for the Tigers’ Javier Báez during Thursday night’s game against Toronto. Báez nonchalantly ran to third base on a fly ball to center and then got doubled up at second after he clearly forgot there was only one out in the inning. 

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That's not great. And as you saw in the video it led to Báez being pulled from the game by his manager. 

MLB fans let him have 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.