Fernando Tatís Jr. apologizes for hitting a grand slam because of the unwritten rules, a breakdown

jr he is one of the better players going

in the major leagues right now

he's so fun to watch he hits his 10th

homer on the season he ties mike

trout who's like the best player ever to

tie him for the most home runs

this season he's going off he's having

fun he should become one of the big

faces in baseball

just young and fun padres are up by

seven runs that guy beats the shift pro

far what a rude thing to do beating the

shift like that on an infield single

when you're up by seven runs

can't be doing that then we're gonna

walk this batter

now it's two on we're gonna walk this

batter

now its base is loaded and fernando

tatis junior steps up to the plate

looking delicious again ball one in the

dirt

what are you gonna do you gotta pitch to

him ball two in the dirt he's

not chasing he's got good discipline you

want him just to chase just because

you're down by a lot

now it's a 3-0 now here's where it gets

fun

the unwritten rules say you shouldn't be

swinging on 3-0 especially if you're up

six runs after the sixth inning they're

up seven

runs after the sixth inning it's the

eighth inning

why do the unwritten rules say this well

because

pitchers historically are huge

babies and they they masquerade that

with toxic masculinity and

if you piss off a pitcher well he can

just throw the projectile

at you and hurt you so you have to be

careful not to piss off the pitchers

and just because he threw three bad

pitches in a row

that you didn't swing at that means you

now have to let him throw a strike

right down the middle if you're new to

baseball and you're like what the hell

are you talking about

this is uh you know it makes so much

sense because afterwards

then the pitcher is going to say okay

here's another fastball you can swing it

this one

oh nope that's not true after the fact

the pitcher's then going to try to get

you out

oh okay so does the other team they're

just not going to try to come back and

win

because they're down by so much so

that's why no no

they're going to do everything they come

to say to come back and win

you're just not allowed to add more runs

because you know you don't want to piss

the pitcher off he's got feelings think

about him

anyway they said that tatis missed the

sign from the third base coach

and after this 3-0 pitch he doesn't even

look over there

he's not even going to give them the

option he never once looked

there was no sign given because he never

looked if he did look would they have

given him the take sign the don't swing

maybe but he didn't give him the option

so he sees this fastball it's actually

not even like

middle middle it's it's kind of outside

he goes out and gets it

he pops it over the wall for his league

leading

11th home run he overtakes mike trout

one of the best players

ever with the most home runs in baseball

woodward the manager of the uh the

rangers oh okay i see you

okay that's how it is he runs around the

bases he does everything he did the

first time celebrates with his boys

just like he did on the first home run

same exact routine

comes back to dugout hosmer loves him

smiling having fun

dapping him up interesting interesting

there coming up later on and here's his

manager

jace tingler first year manager kind of

giving him a look

like hmm i don't know i'm not going to

celebrate with you about that

like i don't know then the rangers bring

in a new pitcher and the first thing he

does is he throws behind machado's back

because they they pissed off his

teammates this pitcher

didn't do this on his own accord he was

told to throw behind machado

by the manager that's how baseball works

it's a dumb society sometimes

the umpires get together they give no

warnings they did

suspend the pitcher and woodward after

this because

obviously that was intentional and

woodward's sitting there with his

feelings hurt

then they get out of the inning hosmer

makes the last out

he runs down the line he looks at the

opposing dugout and says

hey we'll talk to him

we'll talk to him and then hosmer talks

to tatis

who just hit two home runs just became

the kid with the most home runs in all

of baseball and look at the face

he's making he's getting a stern talking

to he's being told how wrong he was

he's having zero fun the kid who has the

most fun right now on the baseball field

just hit a grand slam has two home runs

leagues all of mlb leads all of mlb and

he's having zero fun

on the bench because he beat he broke

some unwritten rule

that nobody cares about now what did

woodward the manager of the ranger say

after the game

he said this there's a lot of unwritten

rules that are

you know constantly being challenged i

think in today's game so

um yeah i didn't like it personally um

you know when you're up by seven in the

eighth inning it's typically not a good

time to swing 3-0

that's kind of you know the way we were

all kind of raised in the game but

not a good time to swing 3-0 but he also

says

you know that this is when his team came

back from being down a lot he said

we don't quit we fight we have quality

at-bats we were one hit away from tying

the game or winning the game can't say

enough

so if you're if you want your teams to

fight and quit

or fight and never quit and have quality

bats and come back from big runs

you also want the other team to not add

runs to their side

they just need to stay put and then let

you come back doesn't make much sense to

me

sounds kind of stupid and wrong and then

the starting nine crew dug this up

manny machado hit a home run when they

were up six

on a 3-0 count and woodward just

standing on third dapping him up good

job manny

so a lot of hurt feelings now the padres

manager jace tingler

he was with texas forever minor league

coordinator outfield and base running

coach

assistant general manager quality

control coach

all of this is he going to have his new

teams back or is he going to suck up to

his old team

you know in this game in particular um

you know we we

had a a little bit of a comfortable lead

and you know we're we're not trying to

um you know run up the score or anything

like that

and so uh you know put on the the take

sign and and

um you know probably probably see a

strike right there you should probably

see a strike right there

not hit a home run so he's did not have

his star players back his golden goose

the player that's going to make him

seem like a good manager he's a new

manager the only reason he's brought in

is to be

a players coach a player's guy and he

throws his player under the bus says

yeah he probably should have taken a

strike there

instead of hitting a home run when in

the world

should a coach be telling his player

take a strike instead of

put more runs on the board for his team

ridiculous press conference by jace

tingler

makes me so upset and then tatis comes

to the press conference and he

apologizes since since i was a kid man

and i know a lot of i'm winning rules

and now but

you know this time i didn't i was i was

kind of lost on this one i was

you know they told me after five seven

after six or something like that and

then you know from those experiences you

gotta learn from it

uh probably next time i take a pitch now

that i know from end and uh

you know you just gotta you gotta learn

from it and keep looking forward

how backwards is baseball that this kid

hits league leading 11th home run

a grand slam has a fantastic night and

he has to sit in front of the media and

say yeah next time i'll probably just

take a strike instead of doing

what they pay me to do what i will be

getting a

contract to do his kid should be so

excited and look at the face he's making

in the dugout

as he's getting talked to about how he

didn't follow the unwritten rule

and you know respect the opponent

because they may get upset

they're pitching so bad that they're

gonna be upset if you take advantage of

how bad they're pitching

shut up this is why baseball gets so

much

flack because of this dumb stuff the

good

news is the really good news is so many

people tweeted

and the mass mass majority

seems to be on the side of oh

the baseball player who gets paid to hit

baseballs should probably try to hit

baseballs at all times

that's the good news the majority of

people

see the light maybe baseball's moving

forward also good news is that this puts

fernando tatis on more people's radar

we want people to know about him but we

don't want them to know

him looking like this we want them to

know him smiling having fun and crushing

balls

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