Mound Visits: Really? Another guy with hand, foot, and mouth disease? This is for real happening again? Y’all.

Welcome to Mound Visits, your recap of the best things you might have missed in baseball every week. This week brings us Anthony Rizzo wearing his full uniform on the flight to a game, a Red Sox usher with great reflexes, and yet another player with hand, foot, and mouth disease. Seriously

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Spencer Kieboom hit two home runs this week, the first two of his major league career. But it’s the first one that’s amazing, because for a minute everyone thought he lost a tooth immediately before walking up to the plate (or even knocked it out swinging) and spit it in the dirt right before he hit the dinger.

In reality, he lost it eating a baguette for breakfast that morning. Not as entertaining, but the pictures are still amazing. He should have just stuck with the “knocked it out because I swung so hard” story and never let on otherwise. He’d be a legend.

Astros pitcher Brad Peacock has hand, foot, and mouth disease. This follows fellow pitchers Noah Syndergaard and J.A. Happ, who also contracted it at different points this season. As far as we know Syndergaard is the only one who offered a legitimate reason for how he got it as he was working with kids from a youth camp over the All-Star Break.

Astros manager AJ Hinch said of the trend,

“I’m not sure why this has become a thing in Major League Baseball this year. There’s a running joke inside about having to sanitize everything, but I’m not aware of any sort of precautions we’ve taken.”

Sure, that’s a joke. But you should also probably sanitize everything! Multiple times! Peacock was reportedly feeling sick during their series last weekend against Boston so they should also scrub their clubhouse. ASAP. How does this keep happening.

Over the weekend, due to all the rain in the Northeast, the field at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia was apparently mistakenly left exposed to the elements for long enough that the infield was in terrible shape come Monday. After a bunch of other more traditional fixes failed the grounds crew, naturally, broke out the flamethrowers.

It did not work, and the game was postponed until Tuesday afternoon to give the field time to bounce back. But for a whole afternoon Baseball Twitter got to talk about how a major league grounds crew was legitimately wielding flamethrowers.

During that next-day doubleheader, Phillies manager Gabe Kapler managed to run out of hitters on his bench. In September. With an expanded roster. Before the game was locked up by either team, and which eventually went to extra innings. There’s so many “only Gabe Kapler!” moments from his inaugural season in Philadelphia, but this might be right at the top of the list. That takes effort.

During a game against the Dodgers this week, Todd Frazier seemingly made an incredible catch. Seemingly being the operative word. He actually lost the ball as he dove into the seats, but picked up a squishy ball that was lying there and held it up as proof to the umpire, who granted him the out.

You can see the breakdown here.

Usually trickster things like this are funny but are immediately reversed, with the umpire having a good laugh. Not this time. The out was awarded and it stood. Frazier explained his little illusion by saying “It’s Hollywood, sometimes you have to act out a little bit.” He also said he thought about handing it to Jacob deGrom to pitch to the next batter, which he definitely should have followed through on. The Mets aren’t trying to win games for anything besides pride now, so why not?

The Eugene Emeralds, the Cubs’ Single-A affiliate, won the Northwest League championship this week. On a walk-off balk. After being abysmal throughout the season and having the worst record in the league, they made the postseason anyway based on the strength of their second-half record.

Then they won the championship. Again, on a walk-off balk. Just watch.

The players knew immediately and the guys in the dugout were already out on the field by the time the batter got confirmation of what had just happened. Spokane’s manager called it a “tough loss” which is the understatement of the month. High level manager-speak, that is.

A chef’s kiss to his chef’s kiss.

We all know Stephen Strasburg is one of the most talented pitchers in the league. He’s had his injury issues this year and is looking at the tail end of his pitching career, but he’s still got it most days.

This week, “he’s still got it” meant that he dinged the catcher, the batter, and the umpire on one pitch.

Elbow. Helmet. Mask. Boop, boop, boop.

The Nationals might not be making the playoffs but between this, the Phillies’ flamethrower, and their never ending weather delay saga with the Cubs, the Nationals had a very eventful week.

Willians Astudillo ran the bases this week. This is what he looked like rounding third and going for home.

It’s magnificent. You know what’s even more magnificent? This week I learned his brother is named Wilfred and his cousin is named Wilfran. Wilson, Wilfred, and Wilfran. The Astudillo family is a gift.

The Cubs and Nationals played a make up game on Thursday afternoon after a weekend of nonstop delays and postponements. This game looked like it might be postponed too thanks to Hurricane Florence, but they got it in. And since the Cubs were flying roundtrip from Chicago and back in the same day, the players weren’t staying in a hotel or anything before their flight home.

Which meant they didn’t technically have to pack street clothes. So Anthony Rizzo didn’t He just wore his uniform on the plane both ways and didn’t bring anything else. The eye black is what really makes it.

More Cubs would have joined if Rizzo told them his plan, but it’s almost more entertaining that he didn’t. To be a fly on the wall when he rolled up to the plane with no extra bag dressed like that and waved hello to the rest of the team.

They won in extra innings too. Since it’s a tight race for the division in the NL Central it seems like Rizzo has to fly to every road trip like this now.

Yeah Ian Kinsler has made some game-saving plays and Jackie Bradley, Jr. is a marvel in the outfield. But this Fenway Park usher (helpfully captioned as “Usher Guy”) might have the best hands on the Red Sox.