You know what’s worse than sliding head-first into first base? Sliding feet-first into the bag, which is what Kyle Schwarber did during Wednesday’s game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
I love the hustle, but there is just no way you can convince me that doing the following will somehow increase your chance of beating out the defender to the base.
This is just a quick way to get injured rather getting to first base faster and even though Schwarber was safe it was still pretty dumb.
Please, stop sliding into first base.
feet-first slide into first? sure why not lol pic.twitter.com/GTMQLb86CW
— Aldo Soto (@AldoSoto21) August 1, 2018
All that being said, I do admit that when I first saw the play I thought it looked cool. Still not OK, though!
