Once upon a time, Colby Rasmus was a clean-cut pitcher/first baseman in the Little League World Series whose Phenix City, AL team won the U.S. Championship before losing the international title to Japan. Today? He’s Conan the Barbarian — the kind of guy who would slide out of the basepath at second to get caught in baseball’s new slide rule.
It happened on Friday, when Rasmus walked with one out in the top of the ninth inning, Astros down 6-4. Jose Altuve then grounded to second, and Rasmus was forced at second, but there was no throw to first.