It grows tiresome, redundant, writing about baseball in steady ruin.
To ignore the impossibly foolish and preposterously selfish play of the Braves’ Ronald Acuna on Thursday night would be to ignore what contributed to his team’s Game 1 loss vs. the Cards.
Even his teammates and manager were unable to dismiss it as anything other than inexcusable.
Acuna, benched in August for failure to run out what he thought was a home run — he turned a double or more into a single — led off the bottom of the seventh, Braves up, 3-1.
Acuna golfed one deep down the right field line, several yards fair, then gave it a stylish hop, jogging toward first while carrying his bat in anticipation of a nice, slow, immodest home run trot.