Here’s the recap from Larry Brown Sports, which is so understated it might as well read “baseball game was arranged and performed”.
The Astros and Nats were tied at 4 in the 11th when Kurt Suzuki attempted to move Roger Bernadina up from first to second on a sac bunt. He got much more than he expected thanks to some embarrassingly sloppy fielding from the Astros.
I guess it’s hard to write “a guy bunted and the Astros jammed their fingers into each others’ asses until they lost the game” and feel okay about it. Seriously, I’ve sat here for 10 minutes trying to think of a time when I’ve seen a worse play in baseball, professional or Pony League T-Ball or otherwise, and I can’t do it. Even that picture is confusing. In one tiny little square you get every explanation for the Astros being the worst team in baseball, and for their 4-31 streak heading into this Futility Armageddon moment.
This is the kind of thing people put into movies about bad baseball teams in the opening montage so you’ll feel happy for them when they stop squatting and farting on the field. Get it together, Astros.
UPDATE: Here’s the Benny Hill version, by request.
Thanks, Matt!


Yeesh, that’s awful.
I’m assuming the DugOuted version would have been all the Astros players saying “bleargh” and laying face down in the dirt?
Why isn’t this music playing in the video?
I was going to ask the same thing. Benny Hill theme song aka yakkity sax.
This saddened me as an Astro’s fan. I think I heard something about free whiskey shots if they are down 5 runs before the 4th inning or something.
Reason #196 why the Astros will lose 110 games this year.
Save for McCutchen not scoring on the play, this one from the Dbacks game was almost equally terrible: [arizonasports.com]
The tone on the guy’s voice at the end of that clip when he says “I mean you’ve got guys hurt because they’ve run into each other …” is just tragic. I expect his next words were “you’ve got women and children in refugee camps because of the baseballing horror that was unleashed here just now.”
If the Umps just called the game after the play, could Houston try to talk them out of it while making eye contact?
This was a perfect storm of a derp play, bad bunt, fielders running into each other, bad throws, baserunners running through a stop sign. You have to appreciate the beauty in the ugliness.
Errmehgerd, Errstros!
Larry Brown Sports’ write-up of the Willie Mays Basket Catch:
“Fly ball. . . . caught.”
(/inthebag)
“and for their 4-31 streak heading”
I find it hard to believe they have won 4 games all year. Were those drunk sports fans in Astros uniforms?
That is some prime DERP right there. The ‘Stros will fight right in the in the AL West.
Hey guys remember 2004 and 2005?!?! ::sigh::
that’s what the astros get for being jerks to the braves in the division series and that damn 18 inning game and raaargh!!!
Yes, that magical 2004-2005 run when they stole the Yankees two best steroid abusers and Carlos Beltran was playing for a huge contract.
Good thing Roger “The Shark” Bernadina kept swimming for home! http://www.sharkadina.com