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Yankees Pitcher Tommy Kahnle Tripped While Running Out to Fight and MLB Fans Couldn’t Stop Laughing

So many jokes.

Andy Nesbitt

Yankees Pitcher Tommy Kahnle Tripped While Running Out to Fight and MLB Fans Couldn’t Stop Laughing
Yankees Pitcher Tommy Kahnle Tripped While Running Out to Fight and MLB Fans Couldn’t Stop Laughing /
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The Yankees’ nightmare of a season rolled on with two more losses over the weekend to the Rays, and one hilarious moment in Sunday’s loss perfectly summed up their dreadful year. 

In case you missed it, things got heated in the bottom of the eighth after Tampa’s Randy Arozarena was hit by a pitch and then later had words with Yankees pitcher Albert Abreu.

The benches cleared, which is something that we’ve seen happen many times in baseball games. Here’s something, however, that we don’t see all the time - Yankees pitcher Tommy Kahnle totally tripped on the dugout stairs while running onto the field to be there for his teammates:

He played that off pretty darn well. 

Here was the whole scene:

MLB fans had jokes about Kahnle and the Yankees: 

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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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