Good morning! I hope everyone is having a fantastic week and has a fantastic weekend. Time really flies when you’re having fun because somehow, we only have a little more than a month left in the season! Let’s enjoy it while it lasts and appreciate what it took to put on a full, 162-game season after the very short 60-game season last year.
Boink!
When Giancarlo Stanton gets ahold of a ball, he really gets ahold of it. His power leads to some majestic home runs and lights up the Statcast leaderboard, but it can also lead to one unfortunate side effect:
— MLB Errors (@mlberrors) August 20, 2021
That home run — launched off the bat at 106 mph — lifted off at an 18-degree launch angle, so it was a line-drive screamer of a home run that our unlucky fan took right off the face. Thankfully, he was not physically harmed by Stanton’s laser, but his pride definitely is.
Everyone’s favorite umpire, Angel Hernandez, took pity on the poor fan in a later inning:
Angel in the outfield pic.twitter.com/DLN4Q9b07U
— Very Baseball Moments (@verymlb) August 20, 2021
For all you young fans out there (or old fans that still haven’t gotten their first ball): All it takes to get one is to simply take a Stanton home run off the face. Are you ready?
The Cup Check
Speaking of ouch…
This Shohei Ohtani nutshot on a teammate was brought to my attention and when I checked the Angels commentary they noticed it and the bat crack syncs up nicely (h/t @RustyGoomba pic.twitter.com/17uwgDW6AT
— CJ Fogler account may or may not be notable (@cjzero) August 19, 2021
I’m told you only do the ‘cup check’ to people you like, so I guess that’s a win for Patrick Sandoval. Here’s the exact moment with poor Sandoval’s reaction (and also Jared Walsh’s surprise):
Joey Votto Continues to Bang
This fan had the perfect reaction to catching yet another Joey Votto home run:
VOTTO
STILL
BANGS
pic.twitter.com/qbRP3O8dPE— Votto De La Cruz (@EvilJoeyVotto) August 20, 2021
Say it with me now: “Joey Votto still bangs!”
Since we’re doing some photo stills today, here is the fan’s reaction, immortalized by the Internet:
MOOD 🙌 #VottoStillBangs pic.twitter.com/l5D60MZBDt
— Votto De La Cruz (@EvilJoeyVotto) August 20, 2021
Roasted by the Announcers
PICTURE THIS: You, a baseball fan, are spending the day at the ballpark on a date. You’re trying to tell the date about something and it’s going pretty poorly because she’s not very interested in what you’re trying to say. Unbeknownst to you, the Brewers announcers are relentlessly roasting you for it:
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/3W6qHM3xOO
— Bally Sports Wisconsin (@BallySportWI) August 19, 2021
We’ve had this scenario before, too!
This is equivelant to this meme pic.twitter.com/Q9tVNuzXR8
— Drew McSwain (@AKLMac1997) August 19, 2021
Have a great Friday, everyone! Go do something that makes you happy, if you can.
Photo by Icon Sportswire | Adapted by Justin Paradis (@JustParaDesigns of Twitter)