Yasiel Puig commits two huge base running gaffes in Dodgers loss

You know what they say about Yasiel Puig, you have to take the bad with the good.

Thursday night Puig showed how amazingly great he can be when he’s good and how jaw-droppingly awful he can be when he’s bad.

The good came gloriously when Puig made this ridiculous diving catch to rob the Mets’ Wilmer Flores. The bad reared its head a short time later when Puig committed the first of two heinous base running gaffes on the evening.

It all started with a seemingly routine fly to shallow right with two men on. The infield fly rule was called, but the Mets’ Daniel Murphy allowed the ball to drop.

Puig, seemingly unaware of the intricate workings of the infield fly rule, wandered away from second base only to be tagged out by the very same Wilmer Flores he had robbed so thrillingly shortly before.

Evidently, Puig thought he was out on the force, and began walking back to the dug out. In weak defense of Puig, Flores didn’t seem to know the rule either and had to be yelled at by his teammates to make the tag on Puig.

Dear Yasiel Puig, when in doubt, stay on the base.

Puig’s second gaffe of the evening came in the eighth with the Dodgers fighting for the win. The Mets’ Eric Campbell made a diving catch on a liner to left and Puig was doubled off second.

Not sure how that happens, unless the guy is just not paying attention.

The bad side of Puig rears its ugly head twice and the Dodgers lose. You can only live with that kind of stuff if Puig makes up for it with his bat, and on this night he did not.

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