Paul Skenes has his worst start ever, a breakdown

day and then it got pushed because of

all the better breakdowns that came out.

But I put a lot of time editing it. So,

we're going to walk through it. This is

the no good, very bad, not fun day that

O'Neal Cruz had on opening day in

Skins's start. It opened with a full

count walk to Lindor. So, that's SK

owning. And then Sodto jam shot floats

it in there. O'Neal Cruz takes it and

they go first to third on him and he's

not happy about that. Kind of close. Now

that's not really anything damaging or

terrible for O'Neal Cruz, but you can

see they show him in the field after and

he's kind of bummed about it. He's like,

"Damn, ran on me. I would have rather

you didn't do that or I would have

rather I threw you out." But Lindor did

take a glove to the face for doing this.

So, I included the replay of that

because it kind of sucks for him. He

slides in and gets his hand in there and

then takes a glove right to the bottom

of the chin. Uh, right to the pucker

they say. All right, next batter. Little

tapper, just a swinging bunt. Skins

comes up. Can't throw it anywhere. So,

it's just been a no good start. And then

we have another walk. So, that is going

to load the bases. One run is scored,

bases are loaded, and we've got a deep

hit to O'Neal Cruz who came in on it.

And then it's over his head. That's

going to clear the bases and be a

triple, which is not great. And the

optics are horrible on the route he ran.

The fans love it. Double high five,

perfect contact. Skins doesn't love it.

He's upset. He's like, "That could have

been uh better if it was an out." And

you can see him break in and then it

goes over his head. I was interested. I

love looking at the metrics. So, I went

and I found all other balls. Uh, sun's

in his eyes. But that's where he's like,

"The sun's in my eyes." But would that

affect running in? I don't know if that

would affect running in. I found every

other ball in the last couple years

that's been hit uh at the same ballpark,

same launch angle, same exit velocity,

and landed in the same area. None of

them have been caught. None of them have

gone for a triple. All of them doubles,

but none of them have been caught. So

that is like a little nice caveat for

O'Neal Cruz. The only problem they were

all playing right center and when I show

all of them at once, O'Neal Cruz was

actually positioned perfectly like the

best. So I think he had a a very good

chance to catch this. So I overlaid all

their starting positions. You can kind

of see them faintly and flickering. But

O'Neal Cruz is in the black jersey all

the way to the left and you got everyone

else who's playing way to the right or

just center. So they get better jumps.

They can't reach the ball. He could have

reached his had he taken a better route.

So that's no fun. And then the very next

batter is going to float one into the

sky. This one has never been not caught

in the history of the venue, but not

caught there. Sun in his eyes. Another

run scores. And another run gets into

scoring position. Ski is not having fun.

Cruz is not having fun. He's going to

look back up at the sun. Ske is going to

be like, "What is going on?" Uh, nobody

look at me. This stinks. And we got to

look at uh I look like look looking at

Ske's reaction here as he watches it.

And he just like a little like

And then that's all. So that's decent.

It did ruin his whole day and his season

stats. He'll overcome it. But yeah, that

is good jump. And then just uh blinded

blinded by the light. You can actually

see it glowing on his face. So, it just

hasn't been a fun time for O'Neal Cruz.

Like I said, I edited this before. He

has redeemed himself in a lot of ways.

This was just a bad first day. It

happens. He's shaking his head. He's

like, "Well, you know what? I'll just go

and I'll mash." And that's fine. And

that's fine. I'll get on base. I'll do

my part. It's still close game. And the

next at bat 3-2 pitch, he's like,

"Great. I got my walk." They tap on him.

And then they go to this jumbotron and

then No, I just It's a walk. Don't even

look at it. Oh, never mind. I'm out and

I'm part of history. The first

successful ABS challenge. My name part

of it. Damn. His next at bat, another

two strike pitch. I'll just hit this

ball instead. Throws the bat into the

crowd. It's like now I'll I'll I'll

leave and I and I don't even have my bat

anymore. And I really like that bat.

Scared the hell out OF THIS KID. OH.

AND THEN EVERYONE ELSE ducked for cover

nicely. Is that Cohen

owner to the right there? Looks like his

buddies got scared and he didn't. Wow.

Even is that four Steve Cohens? Is this

something to make people not, you know,

like when like decoy trucks, you know,

you rob a little Italian job. You got

four Mini Coopers. Like is he he's got

three decoys so he doesn't get followed

around the stadium. I didn't notice this

when I put this together, but that's a

uniform. That's four Steve Cohens.

And the real Steve Cohen did not get

scared. That's how you know. Everyone

like these guys ducking for cover. I

don't know if they can be in the decoy

anymore. Guy on the right.

Okay. Anyway, on New York, that's the

end of his bad day. Well, more of it

happened, but yeah, that was the video I

put together after this. And then he

started doing better, but I didn't want

I didn't want it to just go in the

garbage. So, there you go. There you go.

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