Tag: Luis Guillorme

The Mets’ third base line was the real MVP with 2 hits that somehow barely stayed fair

“It’s gonna stay on the line, OH MAN!”

The New York Mets clearly had magic on their side Monday night. That or some incredible luck. In a battle against the San Diego Padres, it was almost impossible to tell the difference.

Let’s take it to the bottom of the seventh inning.

Luis Guillorme is up to bat against San Diego’s Yu Darvish. He drops a sinking bunt that somehow stayed fair on the thinnest of margins on the third-base line — much to the disbelief of New York announcer Gary Cohen. Two batters later, Tomas Nido tried to get one over on Darvish. He also got a hit that somehow perfectly straddled the third-base line.

What a twist of events seemingly no one watching could’ve fathomed:

Artistry. Pure artistry. New York would go on to win 5-0, but the victory wasn’t necessarily the star of the show. It was the third base line smiling on the Mets’ fortunes twice in one inning.

Mic catches the Mets’ Luis Guillorme pleading for Pete Alonso to hit a home run ‘so I don’t have to run’

Got to love mic’d up MLB players in spring training.

Look, it’s early in MLB spring training. Players will take the next few week to truly round into shape for the regular season, and we’re in early in the exhibition games in which guys might be taking it easy.

That could be what was on the mind of the New York Mets’ Luis Guillorme. The infielder was on first base next to a mic’d up Paul Goldschmidt and you can hear Guillorme say, “Pete [Alonso], hit it out so I don’t have to run” on ESPN’s broadcast of Monday’s game.

Goldschmidt was amused and responded that his words would be picked up.

LOL. Got to love spring training mic’d up moments.

This might be the coolest angle of a barehanded scoop and throw that we’ve ever seen

Baseball is beautiful.

Baseball is a beautiful game played by talented people who can do some pretty wild things on the diamond.

New York Mets second baseman Luis Guillorme is one of those people and the things he can do in the field are pretty damn impressive.

Last night he made another sweet play and he didn’t even use his glove to get it done. Guillorme charged a slow grounder by Washington’s Alcides Escobar, fielded it with his barehand and then made a beautiful throw to first to get Escobar out. (Though it looked like he might have been safe but whatever, it was a stunning throw. Let’s celebrate the throw!)

This angle of the play is absolutely stunning.

I love the announcers at the end and the noises they made when they realized Escobar might have been safe.

But that scoop and throw!

Twitter loved it.