Gabe Kapler‘s managerial career got off to one of the worst starts in baseball history. In his first game managing the Phillies, he pulled starter Aaron Nola after 5.1 shutout innings and 68 pitches and handed the 5-0 lead over to his bullpen, which promptly dropped it and shattered it into a million pieces. They ended up losing 8-5.
A few days later, he failed Baseball 101, no, Baseball 1.0 when he summoned Hoby Milner into a game… before he was warmed up. Callers into local talk shows were calling for him to be fired less than a month into his managerial career, and some bloggers (who shall remain nameless) reported that he had been fired.