Former Oriole Manny Machado has always played baseball to the beat of his own drum, so it’s not like anybody should be surprised at his reaction to criticism about his lack of hustle on a ground ball during Game 2 of the National League Championship Series.
Machado told Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic in an interview that was excerpted on the Game 4 pregame show Tuesday night that there’s no excuse for him not running out every ground ball, but he’s “not the kind of player who’s going to be Johnny Hustle.”
That’s classic Manny.