MLB fans all made the same ‘Atta boy Altuve’ joke after Jose Altuve’s base-running blunder
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It feels like any base-running error the rest of the 2023 MLB playoffs will result in an “ATTA BOY” joke after the weird “controversy” involving Bryce Harper and Orlando Arcia from the NLDS.
That’s what we got when, in the eighth inning of the 2023 ALCS between the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros, we saw Jose Altuve get doubled off of second when Evan Carter caught a ball hit a LONG way by Alex Bregman that was so close to being the game-tying homer.
Instead, Carter caught it and threw to second, where the Rangers tagged the base and argued that Altuve hadn’t touched it on his way back to first.
A replay revealed that was the case, and the “Atta boy Altuve” jokes were everywhere: