A World Series invader tried and failed to make his escape in the middle of Game 5, and was instead caught by local police at Citizens Bank Park.
A streaker jumped on the field in the middle of Game 5, in hopes of eventually making a convenient exit. That isn’t how things went, of course.
Very rarely do matters work out well for the person, whomever they may be.
Getting onto the field in the first place doesn’t seem to be an issue. The problem remains, though, that very few know how to make their escape. For one baseball fan on Thursday night, that plan involved scaling the left field fence.
The streaker had no chance vs the wall at the Phillies game pic.twitter.com/BQeWiEgnos
— Crossing Broad (@CrossingBroad) November 4, 2022
Yeah, that was never going to work. Professional athletes can barely make that leap to rob a home run, let alone your Average Joe.
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The FOX broadcast was unamused, and was ESPN’s Jeff Passan, who referred to the trespasser as an idiot.
There's an idiot on the field. He tried to scale the left-field wall. He failed.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) November 4, 2022
At least he didn't get tased.
Avoiding a taser is a win in itself.
Avoiding Kyle Schwarber, who easily could have intervened to put said invader in a choke hold, is also a moral victory.
While we don’t have the Kevin Harlan edition, please do enjoy the Japanese broadcast.
Idiot On The Field, as called on Japanese TV: pic.twitter.com/lW7stg7hvE
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 4, 2022
Just lovely, isn’t it?
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As for the Astros and Phillies, they have a game to finish, and having it interrupted by some random attention seeker won’t do them any favors as they focus at the task at hand.
Some claim it’s an Astros fan, though that hasn’t been verified. The’fan’ took off their jersey mid-run, as if it would help them jump the fence.
We have a (dumb) Astros fan on the field pic.twitter.com/f1l4yit85k
— Eric Marturano (@TheEMart) November 4, 2022
Not so much.
The close-up angle won’t help that theory, as it’s tough to tell who the jersey belongs to in the first place.
World Series streaker!! What a bum pic.twitter.com/kLxHdr6Z4w
— Hippo Sports Betting 🦛 (@hippohammers) November 4, 2022
We’ll have more on this story shortly.
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