Usually when you’re a professional baseball team and your opponent has the bases loaded in the fourth inning of a game you want to do whatever it takes to not give up a run.
Well, that is, unless you’re Joe Maddon and the Los Angeles Angels. Because if you’re them you apparently just let the other team score a run. In fact, you make sure they score a run by doing one of the strangest things a team could do in that situation – intentionally walk a hitter with the bases loaded.
That’s what they did Friday night when they opted to intentionally walk Corey Seager with the bases loaded in the fourth inning.
For real.
Barry Bonds treatment for Corey Seager 😳
Rangers lead 4-2 @Rangers | #StraightUpTX | 📺 BSSW pic.twitter.com/wnr8l6ywgI
— Bally Sports Southwest (@BallySportsSW) April 16, 2022
Are you kidding me?!
It didn’t go well for the Angels:
The Angels ended up allowing two more runs after the intentional walk. One of the runs was from a balk that Joe Maddon disagreed with the umpires about pic.twitter.com/sWC7bE45BR
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) April 16, 2022
Seager, by the way, has 1 home run and 5 RBIs so far this season.
This makes no sense.
Twitter crushed the Angels over it: