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.
Check this out:
Javy didn’t know how many outs there were 😬 pic.twitter.com/SpkJItRul5
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) April 13, 2023
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:
Imagine being this unaware as a professional in a sport you’ve been playing for years. But this ain’t new for javy https://t.co/6YM1mI6Kei
— Brandt Oliver (@BrandtOliver22) April 14, 2023
Always felt so validating as a kid to see pros committing the same stupid mental errors we were. https://t.co/KXwaCILpaV
— Mize (@Mizener) April 14, 2023
Best move the Mets have made in years was not signing this guy. It’s a shame they gave a up a stud prospect for him. https://t.co/6OBRetRVpz
— Phil Sanchez (@PhilSanchezTV) April 14, 2023
I know the body language of somebody who doesn’t want to be there when I see it 😭 https://t.co/0bZ7H8X4hx
— Money Mat 💰 (@moneymatos_) April 14, 2023
Sell the team, send everyone especially Javy to the minors. He’s an embarrassment to Detroit https://t.co/UF0fuptPq3
— Murph (@hillstrom711) April 14, 2023
There’s scoreboards all around bro figure it out 😭 https://t.co/Z5bHdFIOE2
— Eddie Rodriguez (@Erod700) April 13, 2023
Everyone used to call Baez a wizard. What happened man? https://t.co/Ldtg5oO6hf
— Jimmy (@J3TZ_) April 13, 2023
It is hard to be more disappointing than Javy Baez has been for the Tigers. https://t.co/uf7PwLKgEW
— Ñick Caññoñ (@TheTennisRat) April 13, 2023
