Baseball fans mauled Yankees star Giancarlo Stanton after he was thrown out at home plate in Game 3 of the World Series.
Stanton shined for New York this postseason, but with his team trailing 3-0 in the bottom of the fourth inning, the 34-year-old failed to reach home plate after Anthony Volpe hooked the ball in left field.
Clips of Stanton running between bases quickly flooded social media, with fans comparing him to President Joe Biden and labeling him “the slowest man on Earth.”
“Giancarlo Stanton is one of the few professional athletes who I don’t think is guaranteed to beat an average guy on the street in a foot race,” one supporter wrote on social media.
“Giancarlo Stanton can certainly hit home runs, but you know what he can’t do? Walk. Or sliding,” another joked.
Earlier on Monday evening, Freddie Freeman once again wrote his name in the baseball history books with another home run against the Yankees.
Freeman won Game 1 of the World Series with a dramatic walk-off grand slam before breaking the fence again as the Los Angeles Dodgers took a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series.
As the action headed to the Bronx for Game 3, the 35-year-old picked up where he left off, belting a two-run homer in the first inning.
It saw the Dodgers take an early 2-0 lead. It also meant that Freeman joined George Springer as the only players in MLB history to homer in five consecutive World Series games. The streak dates back to his time with the Atlanta Braves.
Not only that, Freeman became just the third player ever to hit a home run in each of the first three games of a World Series – following Hank Bauer in 1958 and Barry Bonds in 2002.