Baseball is a great game, but at the same time, no sport gets in its own way more than baseball. We saw exactly why during Tuesday’s game between the San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants.
The Giants had already built a nine-run lead in the second inning. It was a huge deficit for San Diego, sure, but there was still plenty of time for the Padres to theoretically chip away at the lead and make a game out of it. The Padres, instead, were too busy enforcing baseball’s unwritten rules for blowout etiquette.
In that second inning, the Padres were upset when Steven Duggar stole second with a nine-run lead. Padres first baseman Eric Hosmer called Duggar out about it, telling him he has to be “little bit smarter in that situation.”
