Rockies’ Drew Stubbs breaks World Record for worst slide
April 26, 2015 at 1:40 PM
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Hide the Little Leaguers, we're about to witness the worst slide we'll see in baseball all season. The unfortunate subject of today's unfortunate posting is Colorado Rockies outfielder Drew Stubbs. Coming in to play on Saturday night, Stubbs' season was actually going quite miserably so far. In his first 17 at-bats, he was hitless with 11 strikeouts and little else to show for his season in terms of positive contributions to the ballclub. Little did he know things were about to get worse during Saturday's 5-4, 11-inning loss to the San Francisco Giants. [ Yahoo Sports Fantasy Baseball: Sign up and join a league today! ] Despite his offensive struggles, Rockies manager Walt Weiss still called Stubbs' number as part of a seventh-inning double switch. With the game on the line in the ninth inning, Weiss once again stuck with Stubbs, who delivered a game-tying fielder's choice. That's actually a very good thing, but what followed immediately after was not. Representing the winning run, Stubbs took off for second base and had the bag stolen easily against Santiago Casilla and Andrew Susac, only he didn't, because he somehow managed to botch the slide and roll over the bag. First and...
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