Ordinarily, I’d give the guy the benefit of the doubt in this case and assume he just slipped:
A.J. Pierzynski brings flopping to baseball
... but that’s A.J. Pierzynski, and A.J. Pierzynski gets no benefit of the doubt. Getting clipped sucks, but it doesn’t make you get hit by an invisible cannonball half a second later.
We’ve seen vaguely similar things before in baseball (recently), but nothing quite this floppy.
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