Mound Visits: Ronald Acuña, Jr. had one heck of a week, huh?

Welcome to Mound Visits, your weekly recap of the best things you might have missed in baseball every week. This week brings us a player admitting he’s eaten dog food, the good and bad parts of Ronald Acuña, Jr.’s week, and Andrew McCutchen giving a behind the scenes recap of the Giants-Dodgers brawl.

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A Durham Bulls groundskeeper accidentally got caught in the tarp while he and his coworkers were covering the field this week, and all I have to say about this is it’s never not funny when this happens. Sorry, buddy. I laughed.

The Mets and Phillies are playing in the Little League Classic game in Williamsport this weekend, and recent hand, foot and mouth disease-haver Noah Syndergaard had a sense of humor about contracting a children’s disease and having to go to the disabled list because of it.

Good on him for still being able to joke about literally anything in his life while still playing for the Mets.

This week, the Yankees’ David Robertson admitted he’s eaten dog food. On a dare? Or because he lost a bet? Nope. Because he wanted to.

That reasoning ... doesn’t quite check out though. Dogs also eat their own poop and whatever weird meat scraps you have from the table. Dogs’ palates shouldn’t be universally trusted.

Usually “throw of the year?!” labeling (even in August) is usually hyperbole. With this one? Not so sure! This throw is awesome. Watch it then watch it again and then send Ramon Laureano a thank you card for bringing such an amazing display of arm strength to our eyeballs.

Derek Jeter has had an extremely rough go of it as Marlins part-owner and CEO, and not undeservedly. But it looks like (looks like) he might finally be settling in, properly delegating responsibilities, and not putting his foot in his mouth in public quite so much as the first few months of the season.

Part of that turnaround was the reveal this week that the Marlins put educational programs in place for their players and minor leaguers to help them with foreign language skills, cooking, budgeting, and basically living alone as they adjust to life as a pro athlete. Or fill in gaps they should have learned long ago but didn’t have the resources to help them do it. Props to The Captain on this one, and more teams should follow suit if they don’t already have similar programs in place.

Ben Zobrist was ejected for the first time in his career this week, and while he probably deserved getting tossed it says a lot that a call was so bad Ben Zobrist got ejected because of it.

Ben Zobrist, one of the nicest and most calm guys in baseball when it comes to controversial calls. With no career ejections. Phil Nuzzi, you might be the wrong one here hate to break it to ya.

“That’s why we want an electronic strike zone” is a solid choice of parting words though.

This week Ronald Acuña, Jr.: hit three straight leadoff home runs and eight in eight games, got intentionally hit by a 97 mph pitch courtesy of a salty Jose Ureña, and then came back healthy as ever Thursday night with a single and a steal. One of the most exciting young players in the league right now, indeed.

The Dodgers and Giants got into it on Tuesday night, and it included an open-handed slap to Nick Hundley’s face courtesy of Yasiel Puig. Puig was suspended and both guys were fined but Andrew McCutchen had the best reaction of anyone with his brawl recap from an outfielder’s perspective.

All that energy to run to the infield and then not even get into a fight about it? Bummer, dude.

The Rangers turned a triple play with the bases loaded against the Angels and good lord the quick thinking here is something. Quick thinking, some good luck, and they got out of a bases-loaded, no outs jam with their sixth triple play in franchise history.

Who’d have thought? Enormous surprise here. Major twist. Never saw it coming.

The potential mascots’ names are:

There are many layers to this situation. The main one being the disturbing resemblance Bobert has to an animate Poké Ball. But also the unnervingly possessed smiles on the burger and the tots.

I can’t linger on this too much because ideally I want to be able to sleep peacefully tonight but I have one major question: who gave the weird trio of ducks a legal degree?

Giancarlo Stanton hit an RBI double against the Rays on Thursday that was originally called a home run. Home runs are called back all the time but the thing about this one was ... this isn’t a home run. Not even CLOSE to a home run. Like, this-ump-should-probably-get-his-eyes-checked-and-I-don’t-mean-that-in-a-snarky-way not even close.

Maybe next time, my man.

This ump catches Nick Castellanos’ bat flip like it’s nothing. Like he practices catching back flips before they hit the ground in his backyard at home.

“Come on honey, dinner was delicious but it’s bat flip catching practice time. You know the drill. Bring my bucket of bats.”

Didn’t even hesitate. What a pro.