Manny Machado is at it again. Everyone is talking about him this postseason, but unfortunately, it’s not always about how good he is at playing baseball. The NLCS has it all. Bad slides, not checking on a catcher after a backswing, petulant whining at home plate, and even starting drama by running into first base wrong. That last one sounds too absurd to be true, but no, it’s real.
Orioles fans are familiar with this drama. We put up with it, of course, because for seven seasons Machado wore the uniform of our favorite baseball team, because he’s the best baseball player we’ve seen on the team in the 21st century and we got to watch him bloom from the touted prospect into one of the best players in all of baseball.