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Brandon Phillips Catches the Nats Asleep
By Jamie Mottram | August 2, 2007
Chris (not pictured) was at RFK for last night’s Nats-Reds game but hasn’t surfaced yet and probably doesn’t recall much anyway. Reminder: they serve beer there.
So I’m going to go ahead and post about Cincy’s Brandon Phillips swiping two bags at once. Similar to Ron Belliard’s magic glovework the other night, it’s a must-see highlight.
Phillips planned and executed the two-stealer(?) because lefty Adam Dunn was at the plate and Washington’s defensive shift left 3B Ryan Zimmerman covering second. When there was no throw on the straight steal, Phillips rounded the bag and headed for third. Whether Zimm was asleep at the wheel or not, it’s hard to tell, but the fact that he’s athletic enough to recover and nearly tag Phillips out is impressive.
That extraordinary play aside, it was a good night for the Nats as their bullpen was beastly yet again, Austin Kearns’ awoke and John Lannan (’Must Die’) walked away with his first career W. I can’t believe this team is 38-35 since May 9, but there’ll be more time for that later.
Topics: Absurd Video, Nationals |
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August 2nd, 2007 at 3:10 pm
I was getting beer when the two steals at once happened. I came back, my friend told me about it, and I chalked it up to him being drunk.
I had no idea it really did happen until I just read this post.