Yasiel Puig became the talk of baseball Friday night with his epic 310-foot throw from near the right-field wall to nail the Rockies' Trevor Story at third base.
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People are still talking about it today … well, Puig certainly is, anyway, sending out the following tongue-in-cheek Tweet Saturday morning:
Tonight, I'm hitting the cutoff man. Sorry about last night, Skip. NOT!! 😝 Hahaha #ThrowNotLate #LetsWin #GoBlue
— Yasiel Puig (@YasielPuig) April 23, 2016
Puig's throw drew instant comparisons to a similar cannon shot by Pirates outfielder Jose Guillen in 1998. Here's a great comparison of the two plays, courtesy of MLB.com:
Puig probably isn't sorry. He definitely isn't sorry.