The 13–7 Pirates are the most surprising team in Major League Baseball through the first few weeks of the 2023 season, but they should really be ashamed by what their catcher pulled off in Thursday night’s win over the Reds.
In case you missed it, Austin Hedges tried to throw a runner out at second when he noticed his throw was really bad and was going to land somewhere in the outfield.
Instead of just living with his obvious mistake he decided to do a wild flop that caused the home plate umpire to call hitter’s interference and called the runner out at second.
This was bad:
Austin Hedges draws the batter’s interference call and Jonathan India is ruled out at 2nd. pic.twitter.com/mYht2qBa84
— Caught Stealing (@MLB_CS) April 21, 2023
MLB fans were not impressed:
Truly embarrassing play from Hedges https://t.co/VsJlRANu7Q
— Nick Ciotola (@Nick_Ciotola) April 21, 2023
Nah I’d be pissed if I was the Reds manager. Batter stayed in the box and didn’t touch the catcher. Catcher flopped once in airmailed into Center. https://t.co/78Qf8pEqbZ
— Cory Böeckman (@C_Boeckman) April 21, 2023
Catcher should be banned for life https://t.co/KBBjNVByZF
— Kevin W.A. (@BJaysBaby) April 21, 2023
Hedges does seem like one to fake this. https://t.co/jqgCdukTEf
— S Tu (@stuiesloan) April 21, 2023
Man, what? https://t.co/pEHXoBhTOl
— The Silent Assassin (@SilentAssassinM) April 21, 2023
“i slipped so my throw was bad” 😭😭😭 a cover up https://t.co/iNIeOcA1pz
— J (@godlyfigura) April 21, 2023
