Clayton Richard and Christian Villanueva tumbled to the ground together, got up and laughed
Conventional bunts cause chaos. Often designed to catch the pitcher, catcher and infielders off-guard, they bring with them a surprise factor that can lead to some ... amusing scenes. Also catching everybody off-guard are swinging bunts, since they aren't intentional.
In Wednesday's Padres-Dodgers game,
Handling potentially embarrassing situations is something we all have to do, but we don't all pull it off as smoothly as Richard and Villanueva did. Caps off to them for the recovery!