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Miguel Montero Better at Throwing Under Buses Than Throwing Out at Bases

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Washington Nationals baserunners snagged seven bags against Miguel Montero and Jake Arrieta in Tuesday night’s 6-1 loss. Known for being slow to the plate, Arrieta certainly didn’t help Miggy’s efforts. In fact, the vetern backstop didn’t really show an effort on half of the stolen base attempts.

Like stealing candy from a baby pic.twitter.com/eyEH1Bjs1o

— SI MLB (@si_mlb) June 28, 2017

After the game, Montero expressed his frustration to the Chicago media, which was summed up by The Athletic’s Sahadev Sharma.

Miguel Montero had some thoughts on those stolen bases… pic.