Spiking the ball: A great way to celebrate a touchdown, a terrible way to play defense in baseball.
Ryan Raburn is really gunning for a spot in the Terrible Left Fielders Hall of Fame. The thing he is gunning is a ball, and he is gunning it directly into the ground:
The entire video is available at Deadspin, but let's summarize: Raburn probably could have caught Mike Moustakas' fly ball, if he was a tad faster. If he was a tad wiser, he could've cut it off for a double. As is, he slid and booted it, leading to a double for Moustakas -- then he spiked it directly into the ground, at exactly an angle so that nobody on the field could access it before Moustakas ran the 180 feet from second to home.
Raburn had previously let a ball doink into the stands, and this is obviously a play from the Raul Ibanez school of left fielding.
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