Sliding is one of the first things a baseball player learns how to do in Little League. Anyone who has played the game at a young age can remember going home with raspberries on their legs. We'd be lying if we said we sometimes slid during unnecessary situations just to get our uniforms dirty. [ Yahoo Sports Fantasy Football: Sign up and join a league today! ] We appreciate the art of the slide, is what we're saying, and we think maybe you do too. So when Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson and Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner pulled off two of the coolest slides we've seen this season on the same day, we couldn't help but have a debate. Both slides are impressive, yet different. Both display intelligence, quick-thinking and acute awareness of a situation. They are both works of art in their own right. With that said, we're here to decide which one is better. Let's start with Donaldson's slide (featured above). Donaldson tagged up on a relatively shallow pop up to second base. Trying to advance on this type of play took guts, but he went for it. The throw from Jason Kipnis was pretty close, causing Donaldson to jump away from catcher Yan Gomes. He...
Whose slide was better: Josh Donaldson versus Justin Turner
Published September 3, 2015 at 11:35 AM
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