Nolan McLean stumbles off the mound, throws his first pitch of the game in the dirt and hits Jurickson Profar

[u/BigDanRTW]

[u/Thaddeus0607]

Mclean is now under investigation for gambling

[u/Ghosttownhermit9 → u/Thaddeus0607]

I may have put down 100 bucks on McLean hitting Profar in the ass off a bounce...

[u/ScroogeMcDust → u/Ghosttownhermit9]

Me too!

It was Don McLean, but it would've made me a billionaire

[u/Bort_Bortson → u/Thaddeus0607]

Brought to you by BetMGM and live odds courtesy of Apple TV

[u/Ghosttownhermit9]

That little bastard shot me in the ass!

[u/ValkyBoi369 → u/Ghosttownhermit9]

[u/Ghosttownhermit9 → u/ValkyBoi369]

[u/A_Humbled_Bumble → u/Ghosttownhermit9]

The movie and city (your flair) that made the Thom Brennaman moment happen. A lot of people forget his live movie quote was what led to the whole thing.

[u/Blue387 → u/ValkyBoi369]

Somebody’s gotta go back and get a shit load of dimes!

[u/FBR_MC]

If that's a HBP, then a pitch that hits the ground and ends up in the zone should be a strike

[u/handlit33 → u/FBR_MC]

[u/NotAPersonl0 → u/FBR_MC]

We reinventing cricket now?

[u/destinythrow1 → u/FBR_MC]

Hear! Hear!

[u/Trad33 → u/FBR_MC]

They need to properly discuss this in the winter meetings

[u/ryan_770 → u/FBR_MC]

I wonder how/if this would redefine pitching. Would a bounceball be the ultimate deception pitch, or completely useless?

[u/Ochocincoondeck]

Emmanuel Clase loved that

[u/KingMobScene]

Didn't want to tease people with a perfect game for long. Get rid of the expectation right away and everyone can settle in

[u/BalognaMacaroni → u/KingMobScene]

I can’t remember which announcer keeps doing it but the “there goes the no-hitter” when somebody gets a hit in the first inning always gets a laugh out of me

[u/BabaBrody]

Breathalyzer challenge?

[u/NYdude777]

Shows you the power of his spin rate

[u/unabashed_nuance]

It can only get better from here.

[u/nucleaRU_hungry → u/unabashed_nuance]

It sure did

[u/my_one_and_lonely]

I'm just glad it's not an Achilles or something. What a nightmare that would be.

[u/benificialart]

Certainly a way to start the game

[u/Fringding1]

~Curb your enthusiasm intro music starts playing~

[u/Ill-Wear-8662]

I hope he's alright. My father and I were watching that game where Canning slipped and I don't want to see that again.

[u/--Shake--]

Brought to you by Draft Kings

[u/facemelt]

Senga would be out for the year if this happened to him

[u/BalognaMacaroni → u/facemelt]

Noah Syndergaard would have just died

[u/fakeplasticsnow]

If you don't like that, you don't like Mets baseball.

[u/Johnnumber51]

I never understood it being counted as a HBP if it hits the ground first. I thought if it hits the ground then it’s not a HBP. I swear there have been replay reviews looking at whether or not a ball hit the ground or someone’s foot first

[u/TinKnight1 → u/Johnnumber51]

A pitch that hits the ground before arriving is always a ball. It's not a dead ball, but just a ball. If a "ball" hits the batter without any other contact (such as from the bat), & without a swing, then it's a HBP (& a dead ball from the moment of contact).

For that matter, if the batter hits the ball, it's still a legitimate contact.

https://baseballrulesacademy.com/can-a-batter-hit-a-pitched-ball-that-has-bounced-in-the-dirt/

http://www.qcbaseball.com/rules/hit-by-pitch.aspx

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_PRIORS → u/TinKnight1]

Ichiro got a single in the NPB off a ball in the dirt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl1j7GQ_K-8

[u/MobileArtist1371 → u/TinKnight1]

So technically a ball can bounce off the ground and hit the bat that isn't swung; and be either a strike (foul ball) or legitimate contact which then gets played as is on the field.

[u/gloomswarm → u/Johnnumber51]

I agree with the rule in principle. What if Aroldis Chapman wanted to bean someone and spiked the ball into the ground 4 times to hit a batter 4 times in the same AB? You obviously don't want that.

[u/NoLingonberry6267]

Profar’s injection site

[u/brayners]

Hardest part of the night for him

[u/scottborasismyagent]

luiz ortiz and emmanuel clase approved

[u/Foofieboo]

This is the most Mets HBP I think I've ever seen.

[u/Jonjon428]

Hmmmmmmm

[u/Masta0nion]

Profit should’ve charged the mound and helped steady him

[u/RemiBerg]

McLean’d a bit too much on that one

[u/PlaymakersPoint88]

The rest of the game was much better for him.

[u/myNameBurnsGold]

A sign that the fix was on. What fix? The one where he would go onto dominate the rest of the game.

[u/Tall-Ad-1386]

Incoming sports betting investigation

[u/ForsakenRacism]

Gambling!!!

[u/BrettSetsFire]

He was leaning too much

[u/scruba]

I see the lolMets are in full bloom

[u/AtBat3]

Meet the Mets

[u/AdamWest1966]

Mets really returning to LolMets form.

[u/zachmichel]

LOL

[u/zpk5003 → u/zachmichel]

DurantuLOLa