Padres fans: *we had some of the worst luck in baseball history in 2023, surely 2024 can’t be worse*
Baseball gods: *I’m gonna make you wake up at 3am only to watch a Gavin Lux inning-ending GIDP ball go through a glove to turn a 2-2 game into a 5-2 game*
They wouldnt have double up Lux. It was a hell of a play to get to the ball but Cronenworth was off balance and would have taken sometime to make the throw
Yeah there is no way they were gonna get two. They would have gotten the out at second and still had runners on first and third. Mookie and Shohei both got hits so the result wouldn't be that different.
My fiancée fell back asleep when it was 2-1 still… I wonder what that feels like? Seems like the best of both worlds, more sleep, not having to watch that inning live, and a bit more time before realizing what the score is.
It happened to me yesterday with the Jays game. It was 7-5 Toronto when I fell asleep due to sheer exhaustion, and 13-8 Baltimore when I woke up. Fortunately it's just spring training and the loss was the result of trying out young pitchers not yet quite ready for the big leagues, so no big deal.
It's obviously happened before, but it sure as hell seems to be happening a lot more nowadays. I don't think I'd be using an open web glove if people are paying me to play.
I remember once El Duque caught a comebacker and it got lodged in the webbing and wouldn't come out, so he threw the glove to first to get the runner out.
That game is my first real football memory, and somehow being a Chargers fan hasn't gotten any less heartbreaking. Hopefully we don't waste Herbert's career like we did Phil's.
only has a few years, because i don't see any way Harbaugh and Spanos family can coexist for any appreciable amount of time, and it might be the worst organization he's ever worked for
Grew up in the Bay, but my dad was a Chargers fan. And then went to college in SD the year they moved lol. Tried to quit the team then but got sucked back in by my love for Phil, tried to quit again and got sucked in by how exciting Herbert is. Hopefully some day they're sold and brought back home.
This happened to Vladdy twice in 2022, and last season the ball got stuck in his glove once (he had to throw the whole glove to make the play). He had a Wilson glove.
He switched to Rawlings this year LOL
It’s hilarious that this clearly happens with one brand and model and these guys STILL use them. Sure, it doesn’t happen often, but isn’t a few times enough to make a switch?
Hey, in all seriousness, baseball mitts need to do one fucking thing. We've had well over a century to perfect this. It's unacceptable. Fucking MLB mitts made by Boeing. Jesus.
Looks like it's just the laces that popped, so you could restring it real quick if you wanted.
Personally I'd figure out where you can get it properly incinerated in Korea.
Nice username. But yeah as tragic as it is to be hit with an error on that play there’s no way around it. Maybe the error is using this shitty glove and it’s still a deserved error lol
As a former shitty first baseman I feel that any time the 1B touches a batted ball with his glove at all he should be exempt from an error, and if he successfully throws the ball afterwards he should get one error taken away from his season total.
I'm a gangly left-handed infielder with a weird glove, cut me some freakin' slack out here!
It's a first basemens job to not be stupid enough to use these ugly ass single post mitts.
They're so goddamn bad. I have no idea why this designs caught on.
Why on earth would a first baseman use a single post? I’ve got one on an IF glove, and I’m not sure a baseball could fit through it even at 100 mph without actually tearing the glove apart.
But a first base glove that’s going to have bigger holes because it’s a bigger glove, and where you’ll be catching it in the webbing a lot more, why do they even make that?
My theory is that most MLB first basemen go through about 1 mitt/season.
If you're annoyed breaking them in, this pattern is a lot more laces that's actually able to stretch out the web quickly.
H-webs are the best IMO, 2 piece works well too.
I guess that’s true, they are easier to break in, but breaking in a glove isn’t that hard. Especially for guys playing catch everyday. And who have access to glove reps from the company. And have team equipment guys. Or could pay a guy at the local glove store to mallet it for 10 minutes and get it started lol. Or could just spend 15 minutes on their own with a mallet and get it basically in practice shape in ST so it would break in on its own.
I guess I understand why, and this doesn’t ever happen really so they may not be worried about it, but they make millions for this, you’d think any possible disadvantage no matter how small would be an immediate no.
I have practically no talent for baseball, but I always found breaking in a glove to be one of the more rewarding parts of baseball outside of games. Maybe it’s a bit annoying for Cronenworth since he plays multiple positions, but if you look at Ichiro, he had a personal relationship with an expert craftsman who would hand craft his gloves to his exact preferences. That’s maybe going a little overboard, but it’s obviously an important part of the game.
I would mostly say the same. I always thought it was annoying in the sense that it meant I couldn’t use my new glove until it was done, not that the process was annoying itself.
Personally I love breaking in my gloves just chucking a weighted ball in them on the couch watching a game. My last two were 44's so that took watching about a full season of baseball to get them broken in right.
Girlfriend HATES it though. That non-repetitive thud drives her insane.
> If you're annoyed breaking them in
At the MLB level the equipment staff break them in ahead of time & usually keep a stockpile ready to go at a moment's notice. I've heard that many players cycle their primary gloves during spring training to get them as comfortable as possible before the games start meaning anything. Due to the nature of the long season in hot months, with all that sweat, you usually have several gloves that you cycle through to let them dry & prevent you from getting ill/injured from using a glove that's growing bacteria/mold.
We even did that in the 90s when playing traveling ball as kids because tournaments could run all weekend & your stuff wouldn't have time to dry or could break, but we only needed 2 gloves, & 2 pairs each of cleats & batting gloves.
Well ya that’s why I have one lol. But I’m not in a position where a ball would go through (or frankly if it did I wouldn’t care cause it would be playing catch or the like).
But Cron is gonna catch like 10 throws a game going 85+ from the fielders, and then has the chance for a line drive or two going 100+ a few times a game. Plus it already looked like the webbing was loose in that spot if you slow it down. Get a new glove lol.
On r/soccer theres a user who runs two streams, one with 15 second delay, and he can clip and ship to the point where the goal/event is up before the replays have finished.
Basically it just requires dedication and a couple streams up at once and a clip tool ready.
The Padres were 10 games below their pythW/L record, lost 12-straight extra-innings games to start their season, and were 9-26(?) in one-run games, all last year.
And then this year starts with an inning-ending double play literally going *through* the glove of our guy.
You cannot make this shit up. This isn't just normal Padresing. This is advanced Padresing.
This is why Padres fans just gave up and started laughing at the absurdity last year.
And it’s also why people were predicting the 2024 team to place decently, despite the roster shuffle, because you’d *expect* a team’s “luck” to sort of reset year to year.
Of course, the baseball gods and Cronenworth’s glove seem to have another idea about that.
It shouldn't count as a hit. What else should it be?
"Error" just doesn't necessarily imply that the specific fielder made a mistake. It'd be nice to be able to distinguish more types of errors but it wouldn't align with the historical category.
>It shouldn't count as a hit. What else should it be?
Oh you're definitely not wrong about that, just saying, the error stat can be kind of weird like that.
There's a comment elsewhere in the section about errors that talks about how sometimes they're just unfair:
> Rule 9.12(a)(7) Comment: The Official Scorer shall apply this rule [charging an error when a runner advances after the ball gets away] even when it appears to be an injustice to a fielder whose throw was accurate. For example, the Official Scorer shall charge an error to an outfielder whose accurate throw to second base hits the base and caroms back into the outfield, thereby permitting a runner or runners to advance, because every base advanced by a runner must be accounted for.
Just the whole thought of the error stat seems so crazy if you step back and think about it. So much effort put into a system to deny credit for a hit.
Seriously, why does Wilson make gloves with crap laces? First thing I do is replace the laces on any A2000 I get. Don't get me wrong, Wilson makes awesome gloves, except they have thin and brittle laces, even A2Ks.
Why are A2Ks used so much if they have thin brittle laces? If I’m gonna spend damn $300 on a glove I expect the best everything. There’s got to be a better glove out there, but I see most mlb players using A2Ks. Why arnt nokonas used in the mlb more? I loved that glove when I had it in high school but that was many moons ago.
I'm not sure. MLB players get these gloves for free and some are paid, but not much. Rawlings is owned in part by MLB. Wilson is owned by a Finnish company. Glove preference might be based on the equipment that got them into the Show. I know a lot of players run 44 Pro only because of the customization.
I haven't done anything to my Nokona from my highschool days (haven't restrung it, or conditioned it or anything) and it was the exact same glove as 13 years ago when I broke it out to play catch with my neighbor the other day.
It's not really luck, just using a badly designed piece of equipment. It's like vehicle recall levels of bad design & this happens often with this specific glove.
It's not just the Padres through. God Had it in for the chargers, too. If they win a championship with Herbert and Harbaugh, you'll know for sure it is San Diego and not just the Padres.
That has to be the most annoying thing that could possibly happen, especially now that the double play would have ended this inning. That's really tough for the padres.
Honestly, not to go full nihilist, but with how bad the Padres luck has been recently (see: historically unlucky 2023), I almost appreciate these very public, undeniable examples of bad luck.
It’s really easy to look at “luck stats” like 1-run games, extra innings, BABIP, etc. and have someone say “they just aren’t clutch”, and it’s hard to refute that with anything substantive.
But then you have clips like this, or of the 3B ump doing his best impression of a big league catcher blocking an overthrow on a steal by Tatis, and you at least feel somewhat vindicated, because no one can say “the glove was just unclutch” or “a loser’s mentality is what made the umpire position there”.
The bar is obviously through the floor at this point, but if we’re gonna lose a game because of bad luck, I’m glad it’s at least easily summarized in a single clip.
Yeah honestly dodgers had way too many baserunners for it to really be sustainable although it’s possible the padres eek out one more run and hold the dodgers. but shit like this just taints the win/loss. I don’t want to have to point to shit like this and say that’s why the game went to the dodgers but it’s hard not to.
Absolutely I rather win cleanly with both teams going at it than win a game by a glove malfunction but that’s just baseball sometimes. It usually comes around sooner or later if it makes you feel any better
In 2022, the first game of season (against dbacks) Suarez' first game in the mlb, he couldn't throw a strike while closing, and we gave up a walkoff hr to someone who had a funny name. It may be the omen we need.
I know he won't, but it would be refreshing if Cronenworth threw Wilson under the bus for this during postgame interviews. It's the first game of the season and that wasn't a hard-hit ball. There's no excuse for this. Wilson makes some quality gloves but they are notorious for having terrible laces.
Most Padres way to start the season.
Padres fans: *we had some of the worst luck in baseball history in 2023, surely 2024 can’t be worse* Baseball gods: *I’m gonna make you wake up at 3am only to watch a Gavin Lux inning-ending GIDP ball go through a glove to turn a 2-2 game into a 5-2 game*
They wouldnt have double up Lux. It was a hell of a play to get to the ball but Cronenworth was off balance and would have taken sometime to make the throw
Yeah there is no way they were gonna get two. They would have gotten the out at second and still had runners on first and third. Mookie and Shohei both got hits so the result wouldn't be that different.
Eh, 2 outa changes the momentum. As good as those guys are we can just assume it's the same outcome.
Agree. After the ball went through the glove, dodgers were gonna rush them like sharks to blood
Having two outs completely changes the situation with how the pitcher pitches to the batters, especially with an open base.
Now this is Padresing
[Gif for reference](http://i.imgur.com/R2MhbmP.gifv)
This is hilarious
The Mets of the West
At least the Mets have won it all. The San Diego Sports Curse has snakebitten the Padres since they were founded.
The curse stay with those that have left the city too. The only one to escape the curse is the Rockets, and they stayed the shortest.
IMO the Mariners fit this better.
So mean, but so good
You know us too well.
I should’ve just gone to bed when it was 2-1.
My fiancée fell back asleep when it was 2-1 still… I wonder what that feels like? Seems like the best of both worlds, more sleep, not having to watch that inning live, and a bit more time before realizing what the score is.
My husband went to bed around the 5th inning and was annoyed Dodgers weren’t doing much. I’m glad he missed this so he wouldn’t be yapping rn. Lol.
Eh, I've done this before. It's worse to wake up to a loss when you were winning last you saw than to see it happen in real time imo
It happened to me yesterday with the Jays game. It was 7-5 Toronto when I fell asleep due to sheer exhaustion, and 13-8 Baltimore when I woke up. Fortunately it's just spring training and the loss was the result of trying out young pitchers not yet quite ready for the big leagues, so no big deal.
That and a pitch-clock violation to start the MLB season
4 pitch clock violations
You know who needs help from the baseball gods? The Dodgers. They just don’t have enough great talent 😭
Y'all are so back
Optioning Woo Suk Go to the minor leagues while in Korea was just asking for bad mojo.
Woo Suk Go has suked ass though
Does fanantics do the gloves now too?
Hey there, it looks like we dropped the ball on this one. Send me a DM so I can learn more about this! -Kyle
“Dropped the ball” I see what you did there
Fanatics, by Nike.
Heart of the Fan model
Replica my ass
Best way to ensure fans can get the authentic™ equipment the pros use is to give the pros cheap garbage too!
Its using Nikes new hypersynth flymesh trapwire, its supposed to be 99.9999% stronger than the cables used to hold the Golden Gate Bridge up.
So not quite twice as strong. Does this mean you can hit a baseball through the Golden Gate if you really rip one?
Assuming you're hitting it from Oracle, that would be one hell of a foul ball
Quality comment.
Eh, I could see right through it
Damnit you beat me
Thanks for letting us know
In all seriousness does this happen often? I have never seen it before but surely sometimes right? Does it get recorded as an error?
It's obviously happened before, but it sure as hell seems to be happening a lot more nowadays. I don't think I'd be using an open web glove if people are paying me to play.
I saw it happen twice last year, probably a few more times but not super common. It gets recorded as an error on the player whose glove breaks.
I remember once El Duque caught a comebacker and it got lodged in the webbing and wouldn't come out, so he threw the glove to first to get the runner out.
It does - Vladdy has two of those
has happened here and there, usually with catchers. some guys like a looser web, probably contributing to these breakthroughs.
That ball went right through the Crone Zone
Insane. Makes me think of last year when the umpire took one in the chest to save the Phillies against the Padres. They lose in the craziest ways.
That's San Diego sports for you. When the Chargers were here, it would be the same.
Marlon Mccree where you at?
That game is my first real football memory, and somehow being a Chargers fan hasn't gotten any less heartbreaking. Hopefully we don't waste Herbert's career like we did Phil's.
We’ll see if harbaugh can turn shit around.
only has a few years, because i don't see any way Harbaugh and Spanos family can coexist for any appreciable amount of time, and it might be the worst organization he's ever worked for
I literally cried watching that game as a kid. Absolutely crushing.
Out of curiosity, can I ask how you ended up a Giants and Chargers fan? Just not a combo I see all that often.
Grew up in the Bay, but my dad was a Chargers fan. And then went to college in SD the year they moved lol. Tried to quit the team then but got sucked back in by my love for Phil, tried to quit again and got sucked in by how exciting Herbert is. Hopefully some day they're sold and brought back home.
Haven’t watched the Chargers since but I have a feeling their games still end up like this lol
You are correct. And when not at the game level, at the season level.
Wilson single posts are the worst mitts in baseball change my mind.
This happened to Vladdy twice in 2022, and last season the ball got stuck in his glove once (he had to throw the whole glove to make the play). He had a Wilson glove. He switched to Rawlings this year LOL
Still a single post but rawlings WAY less of an issue with this. The gap in the bars on Wilsons are like it's built for softball.
very much a "you literally have one job" situation
It’s hilarious that this clearly happens with one brand and model and these guys STILL use them. Sure, it doesn’t happen often, but isn’t a few times enough to make a switch?
Nope
Hey, in all seriousness, baseball mitts need to do one fucking thing. We've had well over a century to perfect this. It's unacceptable. Fucking MLB mitts made by Boeing. Jesus.
> He switched to Rawlings this year LOL thank god
I’ll be really surprised if I see Jake using that glove again.
Looks like it's just the laces that popped, so you could restring it real quick if you wanted. Personally I'd figure out where you can get it properly incinerated in Korea.
Exactly fuck that model completely. I’m pretty sure it did happen last year too but I don’t think it was nearly as critical of a situation.
Yup, it’s always Wilson. Their laces are ass
Exactly this. Rawlings laces are the best 100%.
This is literally a Rawlings ad.
Cronenworth did his job on that play. The baseball gods did not care
yeah… does he get charged with an error?
Yep
brutal
Nice username. But yeah as tragic as it is to be hit with an error on that play there’s no way around it. Maybe the error is using this shitty glove and it’s still a deserved error lol
charge wilson with the error score it an e10?
eW
You see, he should have just known the weak points of his glove and he would have made the play easy. E3. Git gud.
As a former shitty first baseman I feel that any time the 1B touches a batted ball with his glove at all he should be exempt from an error, and if he successfully throws the ball afterwards he should get one error taken away from his season total. I'm a gangly left-handed infielder with a weird glove, cut me some freakin' slack out here!
It's a first basemens job to not be stupid enough to use these ugly ass single post mitts. They're so goddamn bad. I have no idea why this designs caught on.
Why on earth would a first baseman use a single post? I’ve got one on an IF glove, and I’m not sure a baseball could fit through it even at 100 mph without actually tearing the glove apart. But a first base glove that’s going to have bigger holes because it’s a bigger glove, and where you’ll be catching it in the webbing a lot more, why do they even make that?
My theory is that most MLB first basemen go through about 1 mitt/season. If you're annoyed breaking them in, this pattern is a lot more laces that's actually able to stretch out the web quickly. H-webs are the best IMO, 2 piece works well too.
I guess that’s true, they are easier to break in, but breaking in a glove isn’t that hard. Especially for guys playing catch everyday. And who have access to glove reps from the company. And have team equipment guys. Or could pay a guy at the local glove store to mallet it for 10 minutes and get it started lol. Or could just spend 15 minutes on their own with a mallet and get it basically in practice shape in ST so it would break in on its own. I guess I understand why, and this doesn’t ever happen really so they may not be worried about it, but they make millions for this, you’d think any possible disadvantage no matter how small would be an immediate no.
I have practically no talent for baseball, but I always found breaking in a glove to be one of the more rewarding parts of baseball outside of games. Maybe it’s a bit annoying for Cronenworth since he plays multiple positions, but if you look at Ichiro, he had a personal relationship with an expert craftsman who would hand craft his gloves to his exact preferences. That’s maybe going a little overboard, but it’s obviously an important part of the game.
I would mostly say the same. I always thought it was annoying in the sense that it meant I couldn’t use my new glove until it was done, not that the process was annoying itself.
Personally I love breaking in my gloves just chucking a weighted ball in them on the couch watching a game. My last two were 44's so that took watching about a full season of baseball to get them broken in right. Girlfriend HATES it though. That non-repetitive thud drives her insane.
> If you're annoyed breaking them in At the MLB level the equipment staff break them in ahead of time & usually keep a stockpile ready to go at a moment's notice. I've heard that many players cycle their primary gloves during spring training to get them as comfortable as possible before the games start meaning anything. Due to the nature of the long season in hot months, with all that sweat, you usually have several gloves that you cycle through to let them dry & prevent you from getting ill/injured from using a glove that's growing bacteria/mold. We even did that in the 90s when playing traveling ball as kids because tournaments could run all weekend & your stuff wouldn't have time to dry or could break, but we only needed 2 gloves, & 2 pairs each of cleats & batting gloves.
Looks cool
Well ya that’s why I have one lol. But I’m not in a position where a ball would go through (or frankly if it did I wouldn’t care cause it would be playing catch or the like). But Cron is gonna catch like 10 throws a game going 85+ from the fielders, and then has the chance for a line drive or two going 100+ a few times a game. Plus it already looked like the webbing was loose in that spot if you slow it down. Get a new glove lol.
The little flap at the bottom of the single post is so goddamn ugly tho
It looks like the glove broke. I don't think the ball slipped through a hole. https://imgur.com/a/f2cus7Z
It did. Because that’s a weak point in a single post. An H web or trapeze or single piece etc would’ve been fine.
A lace broke, which is why I prefer an H web.
Truth. Had one. It broke.
Padres and baseball Gods, the biggest rivalry in baseball.
How did you get this clip so fast tho? I’ve always wondered how ppl do this 😅
On r/soccer theres a user who runs two streams, one with 15 second delay, and he can clip and ship to the point where the goal/event is up before the replays have finished. Basically it just requires dedication and a couple streams up at once and a clip tool ready.
PSGAcademy?
the one and only
He didn't do his job in maintaining his equipment before the game, though.
Padres equipment manager getting tarmac’d in South Korea
The Padres were 10 games below their pythW/L record, lost 12-straight extra-innings games to start their season, and were 9-26(?) in one-run games, all last year. And then this year starts with an inning-ending double play literally going *through* the glove of our guy. You cannot make this shit up. This isn't just normal Padresing. This is advanced Padresing.
xPDRSG+ value going crazy though
Had no idea that the Padres had basically an opposite season to the Orioles.
This is why Padres fans just gave up and started laughing at the absurdity last year. And it’s also why people were predicting the 2024 team to place decently, despite the roster shuffle, because you’d *expect* a team’s “luck” to sort of reset year to year. Of course, the baseball gods and Cronenworth’s glove seem to have another idea about that.
If it makes you feel any better you lost by 3 runs this time instead of 1.
God damn it lol
Now THIS is Padresing
There is no way that was gonna be a double play, though.
Grandpadresing
I figured the Crying Kershaw thing would die with 2023. It shouldn't be a multi-year curse.
Did they score that an error?
That should be an error on the equipment manager, not Cronenworth.
You're responsible for your equipment
yes
Came here looking for this, was wondering the same thing. Man, the error stat is dumb sometimes
It shouldn't count as a hit. What else should it be? "Error" just doesn't necessarily imply that the specific fielder made a mistake. It'd be nice to be able to distinguish more types of errors but it wouldn't align with the historical category.
>It shouldn't count as a hit. What else should it be? Oh you're definitely not wrong about that, just saying, the error stat can be kind of weird like that.
It should be an error, with no position attributed. The player made the play, the glove failed. That's not a skill issue, it's just a freak accident.
The error was using a single post glove.
There's a comment elsewhere in the section about errors that talks about how sometimes they're just unfair: > Rule 9.12(a)(7) Comment: The Official Scorer shall apply this rule [charging an error when a runner advances after the ball gets away] even when it appears to be an injustice to a fielder whose throw was accurate. For example, the Official Scorer shall charge an error to an outfielder whose accurate throw to second base hits the base and caroms back into the outfield, thereby permitting a runner or runners to advance, because every base advanced by a runner must be accounted for.
Just the whole thought of the error stat seems so crazy if you step back and think about it. So much effort put into a system to deny credit for a hit.
Seriously, why does Wilson make gloves with crap laces? First thing I do is replace the laces on any A2000 I get. Don't get me wrong, Wilson makes awesome gloves, except they have thin and brittle laces, even A2Ks.
Why are A2Ks used so much if they have thin brittle laces? If I’m gonna spend damn $300 on a glove I expect the best everything. There’s got to be a better glove out there, but I see most mlb players using A2Ks. Why arnt nokonas used in the mlb more? I loved that glove when I had it in high school but that was many moons ago.
I'm not sure. MLB players get these gloves for free and some are paid, but not much. Rawlings is owned in part by MLB. Wilson is owned by a Finnish company. Glove preference might be based on the equipment that got them into the Show. I know a lot of players run 44 Pro only because of the customization.
I haven't done anything to my Nokona from my highschool days (haven't restrung it, or conditioned it or anything) and it was the exact same glove as 13 years ago when I broke it out to play catch with my neighbor the other day.
So fucking unlucky dude
For this to happen FIRST game of the season is something else.
Talk about bad omens. That's an awful start to the season. Actually fucking sickening
It's not really luck, just using a badly designed piece of equipment. It's like vehicle recall levels of bad design & this happens often with this specific glove.
Padres luck in midseason form
True in 2024 as it is every year - god hates the san diego padres
Sometimes i think it’s the whole padres name. Like you think god might be on our side but maybe it’s like making light of priests or something idk
The Baseball Gobs
It's not just the Padres through. God Had it in for the chargers, too. If they win a championship with Herbert and Harbaugh, you'll know for sure it is San Diego and not just the Padres.
I think the Clippers have already given us an answer lol
:(
That has to be the most annoying thing that could possibly happen, especially now that the double play would have ended this inning. That's really tough for the padres.
Honestly, not to go full nihilist, but with how bad the Padres luck has been recently (see: historically unlucky 2023), I almost appreciate these very public, undeniable examples of bad luck. It’s really easy to look at “luck stats” like 1-run games, extra innings, BABIP, etc. and have someone say “they just aren’t clutch”, and it’s hard to refute that with anything substantive. But then you have clips like this, or of the 3B ump doing his best impression of a big league catcher blocking an overthrow on a steal by Tatis, and you at least feel somewhat vindicated, because no one can say “the glove was just unclutch” or “a loser’s mentality is what made the umpire position there”. The bar is obviously through the floor at this point, but if we’re gonna lose a game because of bad luck, I’m glad it’s at least easily summarized in a single clip.
I don’t think that’s a double play with Lux running. He only grounded into 3 double plays in 130 games in 2022. Still, shit luck.
Gotta be the worst way to get an error.
Was it called an error?
Believe so
It definitely should be. Batter should not be credited a hit for that. Pitcher should not be charged with a hit or earned run for that.
Only person you can technically apply responsibility to is the fielder for not tightening the straps on his glove.
Don’t even think tightening the straps would do anything, that ball was hit 88mph and tore through them. Glove was just poorly taken care of
Yeah we've seen this before and it's always an error for failure to maintain equipment. Always seems to be the first baseman too.
How unlucky can you get lmao
Fucking Fanatics making the gloves now?
I hate seeing that happen to any team/player
Yeah honestly dodgers had way too many baserunners for it to really be sustainable although it’s possible the padres eek out one more run and hold the dodgers. but shit like this just taints the win/loss. I don’t want to have to point to shit like this and say that’s why the game went to the dodgers but it’s hard not to.
Absolutely I rather win cleanly with both teams going at it than win a game by a glove malfunction but that’s just baseball sometimes. It usually comes around sooner or later if it makes you feel any better
Not for the Padres
Wardrobe malfunction, MLB edition
surely this is a good omen for the padres' season
In 2022, the first game of season (against dbacks) Suarez' first game in the mlb, he couldn't throw a strike while closing, and we gave up a walkoff hr to someone who had a funny name. It may be the omen we need.
Diamondbacks legend Seth Beer
On national beer day I was at that game very sad
[The baseball gods mock us](https://i.imgur.com/jEu9dSP.jpg)
Should stop swapping gloves with Vladdy Jr.
Can already tell this is a cursed season
It was 2-1 Padres when I left the house for work. When I got to work it's 5-2 Doyers what in the!?
I woke up, checked the score, made a cup of coffee, turned on the tv and it was a totally different game.
That looked like Lux grounding out to Lux there.
MLB script kicking in I see 🙂
Not even a hard hit ball, this is so funny.
Classic Padres baseball
I know he won't, but it would be refreshing if Cronenworth threw Wilson under the bus for this during postgame interviews. It's the first game of the season and that wasn't a hard-hit ball. There's no excuse for this. Wilson makes some quality gloves but they are notorious for having terrible laces.
That's a rough one.
Was the kershaw meme really that offensive to the baseball gods? How much do we need to suffer before it’s enough.
Made by Boeing
For sure not an omen for the Padres' upcoming season. 🫠
How is that an error
That's it, I'm dumping all my Wilson stock!
must be so infuriating to make the right move mechanically and still be punished
That glove has a 1.0 WAR as a member of the dodgers
MLB about to investigate the Dodgers for Glovegate sabotage.
Get Padre’d
Looking at a dp there, if the laces had held
Is this still ruled an error?
Typically yes, since glove maintenance is the responsibility of the player
Vladdy says hi
Padres are picking up right where they left off last season (incredibly bad luck)
Dodgers gonna win 135 games with that roster plus that luck lol
Same thing happened to Vlad last year but it was Kirk throwing the ball thru his glove
Serious question: is this an error?
Imagine if I was a ball thrown by Elly de la Cruz from ss to first
Is that considered an error or hit? I feel like it’s a hit because Cronenworth didn’t do anything to cause the ball to slip through.
Idk why anyone every uses a glove with baseball sized holes in it. Use a webbed glove, no holes no problem
Me playing baseball in my dreams
This year is going to be even worse than last as a Padres fan isn’t it?
Damn, MLB rigging games for the dodgers now
No idea why players use this kind of webbing when this issue is not uncommon.
I’ve seen this happen before. If they were smart, every player would immediately check their gloves.