You've probably seen several angles on Matt Holliday's hard slide into Marco Scutaro during Monday night's Game 2 of the NLCS, but it's worth another look:
Matt Holliday apologizes for his hard slide... sort of
And, the entire play via MLB.com video:
Holliday, for his part, said he hopes Scutaro is OK:
“In hindsight, I wish I would have started the slide a little earlier, but it happened so fast,” Holliday said. “I hope he’s OK, he’s a good guy. I was more interested in breaking up the double play.“Is Matt Holliday truly sorry? This isn’t the first time he’s made a slide that appeared to be a little bit out of the bounds of “breaking up a double play”. Check out this slide he made in July 2011:
"We felt for him," center fielder Angel Pagan said. "We felt a little bit of anger."
And now these teams have a history. They’ll have a day off before resuming the series, now tied 1-1, in St. Louis Wednesday.
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