Phil Hughes controls one of the best Twitter accounts in baseball, and a large part of that is the ex-Yankee hurler’s willingness to teasingly tweak and troll former teammate Alex Rodriguez.
Hughes replied to a tweet by A-Rod that Tuesday’s controversial interference call on Trea Turner “could determine the outcome of the #WorldSeries” with a GIF of Rodriguez slapping the ball out of Red Sox pitcher Bronson Arroyo’s glove from Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS.
Turner was ruled to have interfered with Houston first baseman Yuri Gurriel in the seventh inning of Game 6, which the Nationals went on to win, 7-2, to force a decisive Game 7 on Wednesday night.