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Padres’ Xander Bogaerts Got ‘Thrown’ Out at Home in Maybe the Silliest Baserunning Blunder of MLB Season

The Giants did everything wrong but still got the out.

Andy Nesbitt

Padres’ Xander Bogaerts Got ‘Thrown’ Out at Home in Maybe the Silliest Baserunning Blunder of MLB Season
Padres’ Xander Bogaerts Got ‘Thrown’ Out at Home in Maybe the Silliest Baserunning Blunder of MLB Season /
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By now we all know the cliche “sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good.” Heck, some of us have probably lived that many times in our respective lives. 

But sometimes it’s fun to be reminded of it, especially when it’s done in a silly way by professional athletes who shouldn’t have to depend on luck to make a play. 

What the Giants did during Sunday’s game against the Padres was a perfect, and hilarious, example of that cliche. In no way on this play that we’re going to show you in the video below did they deserve to get an out but that’s just what they did, thanks in large part to some silly decisions on the bases by Xander Bogaerts. 

Check this out:

Absolutely incredible. And maybe the funniest play of the MLB season. 

Fans had reactions: 

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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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