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This year’s World Series has turned out to be pretty entertaining. Especially now that the Nationals have tied it up at three games apiece, sending it to a Game 7 with their 7-2 win Tuesday night.
There has been no shortage of drama in the series, and I don’t mean just on the field.
We had Yu Darvish waiting a full year to revenge troll Justin Verlander, Nats fans loudly booing President Trump and chanting “lock him up,” and Instagram models lifting their shirts behind home plate revealing, well, you know.
Social media has had much to talk about during this year’s Series.
One of those things occurred in the first-inning of Tuesday’s Game 6 when Astros slugger Alex Bregman launched a moonshot home run off Nationals starter Stephen Strasburg. It was Bregman’s third home run of the series, but that wasn’t what got social media’s attention. It was the fact that after hitting his bomb Bregman carried his bat all the way down to first base and tried to hand it off to his first-base coach, who dropped it.
Alex Bregman really carried his bat all the way to first base with him đ
(via @MLB)pic.twitter.com/6Kpc7TRQkf
— ESPN (@espn) October 30, 2019
Later in the game, Nationals outfielder Juan Soto hit his own home run, and he too carried his bat down the first base line in what many thought was him taking a shot at Bregman. Turns out it wasn’t.
Bregman, however, did still get much criticism for his reverse bat-flip, some of it even coming from current and former MLB players.
Bregman … dude taking the bat all the way to first….thatâs asking to get someone hurt on your team … next year . Right now focuses on winning #WorldSeries
— Michael Morse (@MorseBeWithU) October 30, 2019
Bregman is a douche!!!
— Mike Napoli (@MikeNapoli25) October 30, 2019
Dave Martinez said âwe didnât like itâ when Bregman carried the bat to first base. Then said âI didnât like itâ when Soto carried his bat to first. Said he would talk to Soto about it
— Erik Boland (@eboland11) October 30, 2019
I know itâs the #WorldSeries but Bregman should get a 100mph fastball in the ear for carrying the bat to first on a HR.
— Perry Olson (@perry82581) October 30, 2019
Alex Bregman is a self centered, arrogant cock waffle, and you cannot change my mind about it!
— Joeyâs Yankees (@ThatDumbNYYFan) October 30, 2019
Not everybody hated it though.
First base coach gotta be better than that… lol gotta take the bat lol… I love Bregman as a player. His energy is unmatched. That cockiness and arrogance is something I really admire…
— CountOnAG (@Amir_Garrett) October 30, 2019
https://twitter.com/deflategator/status/1189518552933584896
https://twitter.com/Co2dy_Foster/status/1189527071854346240
BREGMAN đŁ
Doesnât get old. #LSUMLB pic.twitter.com/wr1eov1LHs
— LSU Baseball (@LSUbaseball) October 30, 2019
Bregman later apologized because we can’t have nice things anymore. #LetTheKidsPlay.
Alex Bregman issued an apology after carrying his bat with him to first base following his first-inning home run â€”ïž pic.twitter.com/8ZHY7NtIq3
— ESPN (@espn) October 30, 2019
Alex Bregman apologized faster for doing something fun and harmless than his boss did for trying to get a reporter fired and ruin her career over an accurate story.
— jesse spector (@jessespector) October 30, 2019
Good point.